Concerti Grossi After Corelli: Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin

Giovanni Platti:
Concerti Grossi after Corelli
Oboe Concerto, Cello Concerto

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

Digital Recording: 11/2007

It was as a virtuoso oboist that the Italian Giovanni Benedetto Platti entered the service of the Prince- Bishop of Wurzburg, who had a pronounced taste for musical exoticism. But he soon revealed his gifts as a composer, notably in the works he wrote for his patron’s brother Rudolf Franz Erwein, an enthusiastic amateur cellist.
His Concerti grossi, derived from chamber works by Corelli, show him to be a worthy heir to the great Italian master of the genre. Performed here by the Akademie fur alte Musik Berlin, these rarely heard gems of the Baroque sparkle as never before.
“The ensemble is superb. It’s as much fun to watch these performers listen to one another as it is to hear them play.” The Boston Globe ( Harmonia mundi )