Alessandro Stradella is a name that might ring a bell with champions of early Baroque music. As for me, I knew he existed, but beyond a short Sinfonia from his Christmas Eve Cantata, I wasn’t familiar ...

I first came across Stradella when I heard my friend, the musicologist Alberto Sanna, playing his violin sonatas at Hope University, where we both teach. I’d never heard anything like them. They were ...

Alessandro Stradella was one of the most colourful characters in the 17th-century Italian baroque. Though many details about his career as a composer remain sketchy, the circumstances of his death at ...

The 17th Stradella is little-known today, but his music – and his colourful life – are well worth exploring Born in Bologna in either 1639 or 1643 (sources conflict), Alessandro Stradella packed so ...

Damien Guillon explains the lure of Stradella’s oratorio San Giovanni Battista I first came across the music of Alessandro Stradella while I was a student at the Centre de Musique Baroque, hunting ...

Alessandro Stradella's star burned brightly but briefly; his music glorious, his lifestyle dissolute - murdered aged 38. Hannah French & Andrew Kirkman explore his life & work. Show more Alessandro ...

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