Venice & Beyond/ Various - Venice & Beyond AEC Music It was not until nearly

It was not until nearly seventy years later that a Finnish composer wrote another large-scale work for violin and orchestra

Faced with the challenge posed by Rossini's essential masterpiece

A year later

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Venice & Beyond/ Various - Venice & Beyond AEC Music It was not until nearlyVenice ca. 1700: having recently arrived from France, the instruments a la mode the oboe, bassoon, baroque recorder, and flute traversiere go on to conquer the musical centers of the Serenissima. The versatility of these new woodwinds inspires Vivaldi at the Ospedale della Pieta and his compatriots Caldara and Lotti at San Marco throughout their lives, whether in Venice, Rome, Vienna, or Dresden. This interest in wind instruments also carries over to