The works on this recording, Volume 5 in Naxos’s series ‘The Art of the Baroque Trumpet’, exemplify the trumpet’s historical setting in Italy during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The trumpet only began to be used in the church and opera house when it became possible for it to be played with dynamic and tonal subtlety. The composers represented on this programme include some of the most important names of the period. They include both familiar composers such as Vivaldi, Corelli, Torelli and Albinoni, and the less well-known Stradella, represented here by a sinfonia from a delightful wedding serenata, Franceschini, the composer of much church music, Galuppi, who, like Vivaldi, was active in Venice and the composer of over a hundred operas and Ziani, another leading Venetian composer of opera. All were masters of their musical craft.