We welcome Colorado Chamber Players together with internationally recognized virtuoso guitarist Masakazu Ito for our season opener in a program of baroque and early classical music by Italian and Spanish composers: Boccherini, Vivaldi, Narváez, Caldara, and Ortiz.
Spain held great allure for many composers in the 1700’s, offering royal opportunities for Italian composers like Luigi Boccherini and Antonio Caldara. Boccherini, a gifted cellist, spent most of his creative life in Madrid in the royal court of the Infante Luis Antonio. Boccherini skillfully wove Spanish folk music like the fandango into his compositions. Earlier in the century, Venetian composer Antonio Caldara was the court composer at the court of Charles III in Barcelona.
