I Musici - Concerts & Follies in Pergolesi's Time

This album is released in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of the composer Giovanni Pergolesi. I Musici performs compositional works by Francesco Geminiani, Giovanni Pergolesi, Antonio Vivaldi and Francesco Durante. I Musici was formed in 1952 by twelve young and promising Italian musicians, mainly roman and mostly graduates of the at the Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. They chose the simple, yet nice, name I Musici and they deliberately decided to shape the ensemble without a conductor. They did so in order to create an egalitarian relationship among the twelve colleagues and friends, which would bring to their music-making a unanimity on technical and interpretative questions. During the course of the years, the musicians have changed, the original members of the group retired but, together with the younger talent that has taken their place, there has always been a generation of "historic" members present who guarantee the tradition and continuity of the orchestra. Superior sound quality on this release provided by JVC's audiophile format known as XRCD24.