DISCUSSION: What is a work? John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about The performing artist as co-creator, including contributions from Halida Dinova, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Béla Hartmann, David Arditti and Stephen Francis Vasta.
VIDEO PODCAST: Come and meet Eric Fraad of Heresy Records, Kenneth Woods, musical director of Colorado MahlerFest and the English Symphony Orchestra and others.
Italian composer Benedetto Marcello was born in Venice on either 31 July or 1 August 1686. He studied with Antonio Lotti and Francesco Gasparini, then managed to combine a career in law and public service - he was also a magistrate and district governor - with that of composer.
Known best for his Estro poetico-armonico (1724-7), he also wrote cantatas, concertos, duets, madrigals, masses, oratorios, sinfonias, sonatas and theatre works.
His brother Alessandro Marcello was also a composer.
Benedetto Marcello suffered from ill health, and died from tuberculosis on 24 July 1739, aged fifty-two.
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Record Box. Virtuosic Turns - Solo sonatas by Benedetto Marcello, reviewed by Gerald Fenech