Alessandro Scarlatti - Giovanni Legrenzi - Agostino Steffani - Bernardo Pasquini - Antonio Caldara - Marc'Antonio Ziani - Attilio Ariosti - Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei - Giovanni Bononcini - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti - Leonard Leo - Carlo Francesco Pollarolo - Tomaso Albinoni

Avanti L'Opera - an A-Z of Italin baroque overtures

Charivari Agréable / Kah-Ming Ng

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212038321

Catalog number: SIGCD 383
Releasedate: 24-10-14

Charivari Agréable perform a collection of overtures from the Italian Baroque Opera, best described by director Kah-Ming Ng as “lucidly crafted for the purpose of turning heads”. In a decadent era when the theatregoers’ antics were often as intriguing as the on-stage performances, these works were composed to thrill, beguile and engage a distracted audience. Charivari Agréable represent ‘a new and very exciting phase of the early music revival, one that enriches the existing repertory and can bring us ever closer to the spirit of the original music.’ (Gramophone)

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