The Italian Job classical album review: Made and played in Italy

This new disc’s snappy name covers a collection of baroque music by seven composers from four Italian cities: Venice (Albinoni, Caldara, Vivaldi), Bologna (Torelli), Padua (Tartini) and Rome (Corelli).

The delights here range from the scrunchy certainties of Corelli's Sinfonia to Santa Beatrice d'Este, to Vivaldi's chomping energy in a Concerto alla rustica, the dancing bear gyrations of Peter Whelan in his Bassoon Concerto in C, RV467, and the beautiful mixture of calmness and florid decoration in the central movement of Torelli's Violin Concerto in E.

The most splendid sounds are in the opening and closing sinfonias by Caldara and Torelli, the latter in predominantly fanfarish mode. url.ie/e8oo