Benedetti, Nicola : Baroque

Decca Classics is thrilled to announce Grammy Award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti's new baroque album. This is Benedetti's first album recorded with a period-instrument ensemble, including gut strings. The Benedetti Baroque Orchestra is now joined for the first time by a leading group of freelance Baroque musicians. The album includes a selection of Vivaldi concertos and Geminiani's incredible arrangement of Corelli's La Folia, one of the oldest themes in Western classical music, which has been arranged by many composers over the years, especially during the Baroque period. Geminiani was one of the greatest violinists of his time, and Corelli was one of his teachers while he was growing up in Italy. Later, when Geminiani moved to London, he reworked several of Corelli's works for local audiences, including this arrangement of La Folia.