It's hard to take the pleasing, sprightly music of Giovanni Battista Sammartini and make an unsatisfying recording of it; Sammartini arguably influenced Mozart more than any other composer (J.C. Bach contends for that crown), and the arias on this disc of Sammartini's rarely heard sacred music have the virtues of much of Mozart's vocal music. They ...
On Sammartini: Sacred Cantatas Naxos' Eighteenth Century Classics series treats listeners to a couple of samplings from a genre in which Giovanni Battista Sammartini, "father of the symphony," was involved to a largely unknown extent, the sacred cantata. Both of these works come from 1751, which must have been a very sad year indeed for this ...
One has to hand it to musicologist Daniele Ferrari for working so hard on behalf of composer Giovanni Battista Sammartini. Even as the shelves of university libraries sag under the weight of older, unused critical editions of Sammartini's works, Ferrari always makes his own scores from original manuscripts and books his own recording sessions. ...
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