Abandoned
at the age of two months and taken in by the Ospedale della Pietà,
Chiara (or Chiaretta) rose – within that enclosed charitable institution
in Venice – to become one of the leading European violinists of the
middle of the 18th century.
No stranger to such acclaim himself from two and a half centuries later, Fabio Biondi,
on his first release for Glossa, has devised a programme drawing on the
personal diary of this remarkable musician – taught by Antonio Vivaldi,
and later a virtuoso soloist on the violin as well as the viola d’amore
– of concertos and sinfonias by composers who, like the prete rosso,
taught at the Pietà: Porta, Porpora, Martinelli, Latilla, Perotti and
Bernasconi are all musicians whose compositions charm and delight as
much today as they will have done in the time of Chiara.
Along
with this inspired vision-in-sound of the 18th century musical world of the Ospedale comes a half-hour long DVD dramatization; CD and DVD
admirably reflect both the virtuosic skills demanded of the instrumental
soloists of the day and the revolution in musical tastes (inside the
Pietà as well as outside it), as the Baroque passed to Classicism via
the galant style. (GLOSSA)
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