Martin Perkins - Early Keyboards, Director, Scholar

Edition HH have recently published the first edition of one of Giovanni Battista Vitali's Modenese cantata 'Donde avvien che’tutt’ebro di vera gioia l’universo’, edited by Martin Perkins. Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632–1692), who was born in Bologna and spent the last two decades of his life in Modena, wrote nine cantatas for meetings of the Accademia dei Dissonanti, an intellectual talking-shop centred on Duke Francesco II’s Modenese court. Many of these works are described