In this release, the Capriccio Barok Orchestra combines two different, yet complementary composers. Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori is credited as the first to use the term “concerto grosso.” It appeared as the title to his opus 2, recorded here. His contemporary, Alessandro Stradella, was no less innovative. Stradella’s compositions were major influences in the Italian Baroque. […]
Alessandro Stradella
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Alessandro Stradella: Composer and Cad
Few composers had as colorful history as Alessandro Stradella. He took part in a scheme to embezzle money from the Catholic Church and had to flee Rome. He was an inveterate womanizer, causing not one but two families to take out a contract on him (as he hastily left town). The first group of assassins […]