Duo Dorado presents virtuoso violin music by Nicola Matteis and his son by the same name. It was Matteis’s playing that helped draw taste in restoration London from the French to the Italian style. The elder Matteis is thought to have arrived in London from Naples in the late 1660s, the first significant Italian violinist to arrive in England. As …

Spanish violinist Cristina Prats Costa presents her debut solo debut album, a vibrant portrait of the sound world of 17th and early 18th century music shaped by the cultures of the Mediterranean. Inspired by Andrea Falconieri’s Il Spiritillo Brando, the album takes the spiritillo – a mischievous, animating sprite – as a metaphor for the Baroque imagination: a realm of …