Unmissable Stuff Music by Antonio Lotti - heard by GERALD FENECH '... excitement, poignancy and luscious harmonic sounds ...'

Antonio Lotti, Claudio Monteverdi and Johann Sebastian Bach ... what do they have in common, apart from being near contemporaries and having a strongly similar musical language? Amazingly, the common factor uniting all three is the neglect their music was subjected to after their demise. A century after his death, Bach's genius was brought to light by Mendelssohn in the mid-1840s, but Monteverdi had to wait until the 1960s to make his breakthrough through the resurgence of his 1610 Vespers, and Lotti's fate was even more maligned...

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