Vivaldi: Concertos for Viola d'amore, RV 97, 394, 395 & 396 (Remastered)
Like all good Baroque composers, Vivaldi was a superb performer: records exist of audiences literally fighting to hear him play. One of Vivaldi’s favourite instruments was the viola d’amore, a twelve-stringed invention of the mid-seventeenth century. Typically, six or seven gut strings were played; the lowest three usually wound. ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos