Le Consort Julien-Laferriere - Specchio VenezianoSpecchio veneziano or the Venetian mirror this programme compares and contrasts two composers from the city of the Doges: on the one hand the celebrated Vivaldi, on the other a virtual unknown, Giovanni Battista Reali, who was born there in 1681, three years after Vivaldi, and died in 1751, ten years after his illustrious colleague. A violinist himself, he composed trio sonatas, including a very spectacular Folia, which Thotime Langlois de Swarte,

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