Credits:

Giulia Genini

Description:

[An Amazing Baroque Orchestra That Thrived in Italy Before Corellis Time!]Concerto Scirocco and Voces Suavesensembles comprising up-and-coming musicians who honed their skills at the Basel Schola Cantorum, a world-renowned center for training early music performers and researchershave, through their recordings for the Italian label ARCANA, Bernardi, and Picchiand have contributed to the reappraisal of their outstanding achievements. There are very few ensembles specializing in 17th-century music that possess such unity and expertise; like all their previous releases, this album features a range of worksfrom small-scale pieces that highlight the individual character of each instrument to substantial large-scale works that could only be realized by a team of master string, wind, and keyboard players well-versed in the performance practices of the era. The works of Neri, who was active in Venice