Platti: Cello Concertos

Download & Streams: Giovanni Benedetto Platti is no household name, but in his day he was lauded as an exceptionally fine singer, oboist and composer, leaving his native country Italy in 1722 to take up a position at the court of Würzburg, Germany, where he served Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn until the nobleman’s sudden death from a heart attack in 1724. The concertos featured in this compendium can be traced as far back as this