Fanfare, January 1st, 2008
CONTI David * Alan Curtis, cond; Marijana Mijanovic (David); Simone Kermes (Micol); Sonia Prina (Abner); Birgitte Christensen (Gionata); Furio Zanasi (Saul); Vito Priante (Falti); Il Complesso Barocco * VIRGIN 78877 (2 CDs: 155:08 *) Francesco Conti, born in Florence in 1682, made his career outside that city as a virtuoso theorbist and composer, primarily in Vienna. He returned to Florence in 1729 for three years due to poor health, and then moved back to Vienna in 1732 where he died later that year. The highly talented and esteemed early-music conductor Alan Curtis, whose 1966 recording of...
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