Grand Tour a Venezia: Heinichen, Lotti, Pisendel, Veracini, etc. | Arcana A534

Grand Tour a Venezia: Heinichen, Lotti, Pisendel, Veracini, etc.

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Label: Arcana

Cat No: A534

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 23rd September 2022

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Like many education-hungry sons of the European nobility, the 18-year-old Prince Frederick August II embarked on his Grand Tour, which took him from Saxony to Venice in 1716, where he spent almost a year. The large entourage that accompanied the young prince on this trip included such great musicians as the violinist Johann Georg Pisendel, the oboist Johann Christian Richter and the composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. In Venice, an intense exchange with local stars such as Vivaldi developed, in an atmosphere of friendship and competition. On his return to Dresden, August took with him, in addition to Lotti and Veracini, Heinichen, whom he had met in Venice and who became his Kapellmeister.

After acclaimed recordings of orchestral works by Handel and Bach, Zefiro now discovers this fascinating repertoire of music by Italians who composed in the French style and Germans who wrote Venetian concertos to impress the prince.

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