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"The Ensemble dell'Accademia was created within the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori, a Florentine Institute which is dedicated to the spreading of fortepiano and its repertoire. The musicians of this ensemble both collaborate with the best ensembles and orchestras which are active in the field of early music – Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca, Barocchisti, Europa Galante, Concerto Italiano, Giardino Armonico, and usually play as principals in some important symphonic orchestras – Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra of Toscana and Orchestra of the Teatro Verdi of Trieste. They have decided to put together their experiences in a joint project which aims to offer a modern listening of the classic and pre-classic repertoire for wind instruments. The performances, which are given with historical instruments, allow the Ensemble dell'Accademia to play the music in its original timbre and sound context, and also to recover its chamber value. Focusing on the period between the Eighteen and the Nineteen century, when the wind instruments started to be played in soloist and chamber roles, the Ensemble dell'Accademia dedicates itself to the philological reinterpretation of the great repertoire, as the quintetti with fortepiano by Mozart and Beethoven, but also – and particularly – to the research of unpublished works of composers which are too often superficially considered minor ones. The ensemble is particularly interested in the collaboration with the Tuscan Musical Treasures Project, and in the research of the music of those composers who worked in the Tuscan area, where, dating from the second half of the Eighteen century – thanks to the contribution of French and Austrian composers who were related with the Court of the Lorena, the wind instruments had an essential role in the evolution of the orchestra of the Grand Duke. The production for wind instruments by composers such Cambini, Boccherini, Nardini, Giovanni Francesco Giuliani and Joseph Lidarti is revisited in the context of the relations and reciprocal stylistic and formal influences that were established during the second half of the Eighteen century in Tuscany and in the main European musical centres. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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