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Label Signum Classics |
UPC 0635212015728 |
Catalogue number SIGCD 157 |
Release date 01 August 2009 |
Giuseppe Torelli was one of the most important composers of the Italian Baroque, being among the developers of the Baroque concerto and Concerto Grosso. This disc marks the tercentenary of his death with a selection of Torelli's concertos written for his employer, George Friedrich II, the Margrave of Brandenburg- Ansbach.
Continuing their extensive catalogue with Signum Classics Charivari Agréable, under the direction of Kah-Ming Ng, is one of the most versatile Early Music groups around. The ensemble specialises in the ingenious use of period instruments to produce "ravishing sonorities and full-bodied textures" (Gramophone Magazine).
Born in 1658, Giuseppe Torelli was one of the biggest composers of this time, He studied violin at the cathedral of San Petrino, his birth city. Later, he studied with Giacomo Perti in Bologna. Giuseppe Torelli is mostly known for his Trumpet Concertos. He was one of the most prolific composers for trumpet of his age. Yet, he also composed plenty of music for strings and from 1668 he was the violist of the "Accademia Filarmonica" in Bologna. At a later time, he also been kapelmeister for ten years in Bavaria. After a short stay in Vienna, he returned to Bologna where he died in 1709. His manuscripts are still preserved in the San Petrino church.
Torelli is also known as the teacher of Francesco Manfredini and his brother, Felice Torelli, had a moderate repuration as a painter in Bologna.