"The long career of Fernando Giuseppe Bertoni is almost a summary of the history of music in eighteen-century Italy. He was born in Salo, on the shores of Lake Guarda, in 1725, the year the elder Scarlatti died. When Bertoni died in 1813, in Desenzano, Verdi and Wagner had already been born. (...) The twilight mists of a dying civilization hid the star of this talented musician for a long time. His only shortcoming was to have outlived the glory of Venice. Yet he was admired in his time. (...)"
[Jean-François Labie in the booklet]Ferdinando Bertoni (1725-1813):
Veni Creator, for two sopranos, chorus and orchestra
Miserere, for two sopranos, chorus and orchestra
Beatus Vir, for chorus and orchestra
Patricia Schuman - soprano
Margarita Zimmermann - mezzo-soprano
Radiokören Stockholm
I Solisti Veneti
Claudio Scimone - conductor
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