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- The Mysterious case of "La Montanari"
  
  By: Javier Lupiáñez
  
  Posted: September 2, 2018
  
  Category: 1717. Memories of a Journey to Italy , Articles
  
  Tags: Montanari , Valentini
  
  Comments: 0
  
  The Mysterious case of "La Montanari"
  
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- Descubriendo a Pisendel
  
  By: Javier Lupiáñez
  
  Posted: January 25, 2017
  
  Category: Articles
  
  Tags: Bach , Dresde , Pisendel , RV 820 , Telemann , Vivaldi , volumier
  
  Comments: 0
  
  Johann Georg Pisendel fue uno de esos artistas que sin duda marcaron el panorama musical europeo de la primera mitad del siglo XVIII. Fue todo un referente para intérpretes y compositores en su época y su legado nos sigue sorprendiendo y descubriendo aspectos fundamentales y desconocidos del mundo musical barroco. Aún así, Pisendel sigue siendo un gran desconocido.
  Fue alumno de Torelli, Montanari, Heinichen o Vivaldi, con el que además cultivó
  
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- Discovering Vivaldi (ENG)
  
  By: Javier Lupiáñez
  
  Posted: January 12, 2017
  
  Category: Articles
  
  Tags: Discoveries , Dresde , Pisendel , RV 205/2 , RV 820 , Vivaldi
  
  Comments: 1
  
  (Pincha aquí para leer en español)
  
  Antonio Lucio Vivaldi is arguably one of the best-known baroque composers. However, the rediscovery of the Prete Rosso in modern times took place quite recently. It is difficult to believe that Vivaldi was a total stranger to the general public until the late 1950s, and his music was restricted to a small academic circle. As a matter of fact, the history of the rediscovery of
  
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- Descubriendo Vivaldi (ESP)
  
  By: Javier Lupiáñez
  
  Posted: January 11, 2017
  
  Category: Articles
  
  Tags: Discoveries , Dresde , Pisendel , Vivaldi
  
  Comments: 1
  
  [caption id="attachment_1044" align="alignleft" width="278"] Vivaldi. Anónimo milanés.[/caption]
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  Antonio Lucio Vivaldi es quizás uno de los compositores barrocos más conocidos actualmente. Sin embargo, el redescubrimiento del Prete Rosso en tiempos modernos tuvo lugar en fechas más o menos recientes; cuesta creer que hasta mediados de los años cincuenta Vivaldi fuese un total desconocido para el público general y estuviese restringido a un pequeño círculo académico. De hecho,
  
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- New Discoveries of Vivaldi, a little video!
  
  By: Javier Lupiáñez
  
  Posted: June 30, 2015
  
  Category: Articles
  
  Tags: Corelli , Discoveries , Dresde , Pisendel , RV 205 , RV 205/2 , RV 820 , Sonata , Vivaldi
  
  Comments: 1
  
  [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfxHwqiCbPY[/embed]
  
  We have made a little video to present our new and exciting program: New Discoveries of Vivaldi. The program features two new discoveries of Vivaldi's music and the most recent findings of Vivaldi's works for violin and continuo.
  
  Although we made the video fun and with a lot of humor sense, the video is quite geek and features a lot of new and well informed facts about the pieces and the
  
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- Improvising on Vivaldi's Dresden Sonatas
  
  By: scaramuccia
  
  Posted: April 10, 2015
  
  Category: Articles
  
  Comments: 2
  
  It is known that improvisation and ornamentation was a common practice in the 18th century performances. Like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and other great jazz improvisers, each master of the 18th century developed his personal and characteristical style of improvisation. These performers/composers masters such as Vivaldi or Pisendel were unique and outstanding figures of their time and it is not surprising to discover that their way of improvising
  
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