Taking care of the future of our past: it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. I, with early music. “Humankind cannot bear very much reality” (T.S. Eliot)
S.Arcangelo The Hague Bologna
Joined December 2012
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A visit to Florence to see the portraits of Antonio Vivaldi recently unearthed by Federico Maria Sardelli, discussing them with him – he has described them in detail in his book
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I am interested in the connection with the Venetian painter G.B. Piazzetta, whose sfumato and chiaroscuro I greatly admire; they inspire me in the production of sound and its infinite possible inflections
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A review of our concert yesterday in Coimbra
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In the stunning setting of the Royal Chapel of São Miguel, I will be playing and conducting the Camerata Joanina in an all-Italian programme that will illustrate the evolution of orchestral forms through masterpieces by Torelli, Corelli, Vivaldi, Tartini, Sammartini and Nardini.
Ensemble AurorA
September 1986 – September 2026
40 years ago, a project was launched with the aim of reviving a musical model: ‘to imitate the most perfect human voice’, as advocated by Geminiani (1751) and by the leading musicians from the Renaissance to the 19th century.
Jacques Callot (1592–1635)
The Violin player (Florence, ca. 1620)
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The only antique mangano in the world still in working order, used for ironing hand-decorated linen and hemp fabrics.
Since 1633
Marchi - Santarcangelo di Romagna
A rare etching and burin engraving by the Dutch artist Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem, c. 1610–1668), depicting musicians and a drinker in a tavern/brothel.
It warns the viewer against the dangers of drunkenness, frivolous music in bad company, lust and frequenting brothels.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
String Quartet G major KV 387
Ensemble AurorA
on period instruments:
Enrico Gatti, 1st violin
Rossella Croce, 2nd violin
Sebastiano Airoldi, viola
Judith-Maria Blomsterberg, cello
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Some archeological finds from the Gattozoic era,
including the cotton-wool-filled cushion my mum made for me when I was ten
Long live the violin without a prosthesis!!!
In the spring of 2022, a violent storm caused a large branch of one of the centuries-old acacia trees in our garden to snap and fall to the ground.
Now, several years on, Marie-Eve Geeraert has made me a bow from that wood which is wonderfully suited to the early repertoire!
I am absolutely delighted to be giving a concert of beautiful French music with my dear brother Marcello, Olivier Baumont and Gaetano Nasillo on Friday 7 August, here in Daroca (Spain) at the Church of San Miguel, at 8.00 pm
