This was an excellent concert. Janie and I are both partial to the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and are also partial to a bit of Corelli. So we weren’t going to miss out on this one.
The concert was actually Corelli plus – it also highlighted some composers directly influenced by the great man.
The Wigmore Hall Programme page – click here – explains.
Below is a YouTube of the Alte Musik Berlin mob playing one of the Platti concerti we heard…
…followed by a real treat – the Corelli Op 5 No 10 (recorder concerto) shown live from the concert the night before ours, at the Kablow Dorfkirche – absolutely dreamy:
