Credits:

Martin Gester

Description:

This album also features Vivaldi performed on the psaltery, a type of plucked string instrument!Christmas by Arte dei SuonatoriSACD hybrid disc. This new album by Arte dei Suonatori, a Polish period instrument ensemble founded in 1993, features works by Italian composers Hasse, Perotti, and Trelliall contemporaries of Vivaldi. Titled A Venetian Christmas, this album brings together a collection of dazzling works and features an intriguing selection that includes pieces performed on the psaltery, a plucked string instrument. The psaltery, played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a ravens feather, was primarily popular from the 14th to the 15th centuries, and was played in various waysplaced on a desk or lap, or suspended from the neck by a cord. The virtuosity of young psaltery player Akakpo breathes new life into Vivaldis works.King International

Tracklisting:

1.Il Rip