Alessandro Stradella is a name that might ring a bell with champions of early Baroque music. As for me, I knew he existed, but beyond a short Sinfonia from his Christmas Eve Cantata, I wasn’t familiar ...
The circumstances of Alessandro Stradella's death - he was murdered in Genoa in 1682 at the age of 42 - are better known nowadays than his music. But the growth industry in obscure baroque choral ...
I first came across Stradella when I heard my friend, the musicologist Alberto Sanna, playing his violin sonatas at Hope University, where we both teach. I’d never heard anything like them. They were ...
Damien Guillon explains the lure of Stradella’s oratorio San Giovanni Battista I first came across the music of Alessandro Stradella while I was a student at the Centre de Musique Baroque, hunting ...
Alessandro Stradella's star burned brightly but briefly; his music glorious, his lifestyle dissolute - murdered aged 38. Hannah French & Andrew Kirkman explore his life & work. Show more Alessandro ...
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