6th BAROQUE MUSIC FESTIVAL: 1723
GIUSEPPE TARTINI - ANTONIO VANDINI

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Festival artistic direction Dimos Goudaroulis

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Around Giuseppe Tartini's friendship with Antonio Vandini  
music for violin, cello and basso continuo
 
In 1723 the virtuoso violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini together with his close friend and colleague for years in Padua, cellist Antonio Vandini, left Italy and went to Prague, where they would work for three years in the service of Count Kinsky. The two musicians will remain friends and collaborators throughout their lives. Tartini wrote for Vandini two demanding Concertos for cello and orchestra. Vandini's seven extant and recently rediscovered Sonatas for cello and basso continuo are particularly expressive and virtuosic.
The ensemble La Stravaganza Greca proposes a program around the friendship of the two musicians and the dialogue between their instruments, combining virtuoso Sonatas by Tartini and Vandini with rare and wonderful Trio Sonatas for violin, cello and basso continuo by Italian composers of the time Alessandro Stradella, Nicola Antonio Porpora and Giovanni Benedetto Platti.