Credits:

Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli

Description:

The latest recording by the Basel Chamber Orchestraa Swiss super chamber orchestra that moves effortlessly between modern and period stylesis an album featuring three masterpieces of the concerto symphony, the most popular genre in the European music scene of the 18th century. During the 18th-century Classical period, the genre known as the concerto sinfoniawhich combined an orchestra with multiple soloists (sometimes written for as many as nine)gained immense popularity by incorporating elements of the symphony, solo concertos, and divertimentos. It gained immense popularity through the interplay of the soloists dazzling virtuosity and the symphonys rich texture. This album features three concerto symphonies composed by Viennese composers active in the late 18th centuryMozart, Pleyel, and Holzbauerwith the soloists being the principal players of the Basel Chamber Orchestra. T