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	<title>Il Giardino Armonico</title>
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	<description>Il Giardino Armonico, specialized in performing on period instruments. The ensemble’s repertory is mainly focused on the 17th and 18th centuries.</description>
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		<title>Il Giardino Armonico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR WORKS GIOVANNI BATTISTA SPADI Diminuzioni on the &#8220;Anchor che co&#8217;l partire&#8221; by Cipriano de Rore (1609) Little is known about Giovanni Battista Spadi, who came from Faenza, a small community near Bologna. In Venice in 1609, he published a treatise on the art of embellishment in voices and instruments. This piece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vivaldi Album</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Virtuosity and dramatic truth &#160; Here, thanks be to God, my opera is praised to the skies and there is nothing in it which does not please greatly&#8230; Antonio Vivaldi to Guido Bentivoglio Verona, 3 May 1737 &#160; In Vicenza in May 1713 the opera Ottone in Villa was produced for the first time. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musica da Camera a Napoli</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the urbane French magistrate and civic dignitary Charles de Brosses visited Naples in 1738, the city at the foot of Mount Vesuvius struck him as the only place in Italy to exude a palpably metropolitan atmosphere: &#8220;The city is cram-full of people. All the bandits and good-for-nothings of the provinces have flocked to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biber (Battalia) &#8211; Locke (The Tempest)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Theatrical Music and Music for the Theatre &#8220;They [the German composers of instrumental music in the 17th century] thought more highly of difficult pieces than of easy ones, and sought to excite admiration rather than to please. They were more intent upon recreating the songs of birds, for example, those of the cuckoo, the nightingale, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vivaldi &#8211; Concerti da Camera IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sonata and five concertos for chamber ensemble recorded here all bear handsome witness to how fascinating music history can be — in particular when the attempt to ascertain the whereabouts of lost music could inspire the instincts of a criminal investigator. The rediscovery of Vivaldi commenced with the Sonata per Oboe Solo, RV. 53: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vivaldi &#8211; Concerti da Camera III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The course of music history has taken surprising and, occasionally, truly strange turns. Thus, many a composer who was extremely popular and celebrated during his lifetime has been so completely forgotten since his death that he is only known today to music historians. In other cases, however, a small group of enthusiasts kept the memory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vivaldi &#8211; Concerti da Camera II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If we were to apply modern terminology to the Vivaldi works recorded here, we would have to refer to them as &#8220;sonatas&#8221;, instead of the description &#8220;concerto&#8221; chosen by the composer. This heading would then be followed by the instruments for which the work is scored. For in Germany in particular, the term &#8220;concerto&#8221; was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vivaldi &#8211; Concerti da Camera I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vivaldi op. X &#8220;&#8230; towards the end, Vivaldi played an admirable accompagnement solo, to which he then added a fantasy that gave me a fair shock, it being impossible that anything of this kind has been played thus before now &#8230;&#8221; &#8211; thus the account of one music-loving Herr von Uffenbach that he jotted down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vivaldi &#8211; Famosi Concerti da Camera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 28th July 1741 Antonio Vivaldi was buried in the paupers&#8217; graveyard near Vienna. In order to keep the costs as low as possible only a small bell was rung at the burial. An official notice reads: &#8216;The Abbé Don Antonio Vivaldi, known as the &#8216;prete rosso&#8217;, an outstanding violinist and famous composer of instrumental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Il Prete Rosso</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UNDER THE SPELL OF THE RED PRIEST &#160; A group of young musicians is currently showing the world what incredible power and sensual excitement there is in Vivaldi&#8217;s music. In the space of only a few years, II Giardino Armonico has developed into Italy&#8217;s foremost export in the field of Baroque music. Ruven Afanador (photographs) [...]]]></description>
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