D'Alay/ Reale Concerto/ Fanfoni - 12 Violin Concertos 1Mauro D'Alay was a virtuoso violinist and composer from Parma who acquired great fame and fortune throughout Europe. A contemporary of Vivaldi who praised his musical skills, D'Alay held official positions as a musician, first in Parma's Cathedral and then at the Spanish court of King Philip V, whose wife Elisabetta Farnese gifted D'Alay the famous 'San Lorenzo' Stradivarius in 1718, which he kept until his death. Now largely forgotten, this ambitious

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first got in touch with music at the St

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28 belong to the genre of 'accompanied piano sonatas' in which the musical substance is conceived principally for the keyboard instrument

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In this unique recording Gamba uses the large body of a full symphonic string section

Within it's 36 minutes and 21-second runtime

in particular makes us sit up and take notice

The piano duo Genova & Dimitrov have now discovered this group of works for themselves and describe Reinecke as "one of the greatest surprises and discoveries of our musical path"

and by the time he headed to the Leeds College of Music to pursue a degree in production