I Solisti Veneti

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I Solisti Veneti (Italian for: "The Venetian Soloists") are an Italian chamber orchestra .

history

The orchestra was founded in Padua in 1959 by the conductor Claudio Scimone . It is one of the best-known orchestras in Italy and has toured in over 60 countries (Europe, North and South America, Japan, Australia) and made guest appearances at numerous international music festivals (at the Salzburg Festival every year from 1965 to 1998 ). Some of the singers and instrumentalists who have performed with I Solisti Veneti include Plácido Domingo , Marilyn Horne , Chris Merritt , Ruggero Raimondi , Katia Ricciarelli , Lucia Valentini Terrani , Salvatore Accardo , Paul Badura-Skoda , Maurice Bourgue , Stanislav Bunin , James Galway , Kenneth Gilbert , Evgeni Kissin , Nikita Magaloff , Jean-Pierre Rampal , Svyatoslaw Richter , Mstislaw Rostropowitsch and Uto Ughi .

Claudio Scimone died in 2018, and Giuliano Carella was his successor as conductor of the chamber orchestra in 2019.

repertoire

I Solisti Veneti mainly deal with the music of Antonio Vivaldi and his contemporaries ( Albinoni , Geminiani , Marcello , Tartini and others), but also with works from the 19th and 20th centuries. The orchestra has recorded over 300 records and CDs, including the first recordings of Vivaldi's Orlando furioso and Catone in Utica , Albinoni's Il nascimento de l'Aurora, and Rossini's Zelmira and Armida . Several recordings have been awarded prizes (including Grand Prix du Disque , Grammy Award , Diapason d'or ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morto il maestro Claudio Scimone, padre dei Solisti Veneti. In: Il Gazzettino . September 6, 2018 (Italian).;
  2. ↑ Solisti Veneti, il nuovo direttore è Giuliano Carella. In: Corriere del Veneto. May 21, 2019 (Italian).;