Melvyn Tan plays the earliest published piano sonatas, the work of the Italian composer
Ludovico Giustini , and dedicated to the heir to the Portuguese throne. He uses the oldest functioning fortepiano in existence, an instrument of Portuguese origin. Between the sonatas, music from Baroque Italy and Portugal:
Vivaldi Concerto in Gfor 2 mandolins (RV 532)
New London Consort/ Philip Pickett Seixas
Sonata No 78 in B flat
Robert Woolley (h'chord) Vivaldi
Concerto in D (La Pastorella) (RV95)
Marion Verbruggen (recorder)
Paul Goodwin (oboe) John Holloway (violin)
Dennis Godbum (bassoon) John Toll (harpsichord)
Sebastian Comberti (cello) Seixas
Sonata No 12 in C minor