Reali/ Le Consort - Specchio Veneziano AEC Music lamenting phrases and groans express

lamenting phrases and groans express the pain

"The Purple People Eater" is naturally the centrepiece

while the young virtuoso keyboardist advocated a more emotional and tormented musical idiom

however it wouldn't see the light until 1987

Reali/ Le Consort - Specchio Veneziano AEC Music lamenting phrases and groans expressSpecchio veneziano or the Venetian mirror this programme compares and contrasts two composers from the city of the Doges: on the one hand the celebrated Vivaldi, on the other a virtual unknown, Giovanni Battista Reali, who was born there in 1681, three years after Vivaldi, and died in 1751, ten years after his illustrious colleague. A violinist himself, he composed trio sonatas, including a very spectacular Folia, which Thotime Langlois de Swarte,