Armonia delle Sfere

Armonia delle Sfere is an ensemble founded in Bologna by Daniele Salvatore and Silvia Rambaldi. It brings together musicians working in the fields of Renaissance and Baroque music. Its collaborators have included the singers Miho Kamiya, Santina Tomasello and Gloria Banditelli, the lutenist Stefano Rocco, the cellist Mauro Valli, and Perikli Pite on cello and viola da gamba.

The ensemble began performing in 2009, when it was invited to present Handel’s complete recorder sonatas at the Gorizia Classica Festival. Its flexible instrumentation ranges from a trio, with cello, viola da gamba or theorbo added to the continuo, to groups of four or five performers, often including a singer. As a trio, it has performed Francesco Mancini’s complete Twelve Sonatas for recorder and basso continuo. Other programmes combine singers and instrumentalists and have marked anniversaries associated with Handel, Scarlatti and Pasquini.

Armonia delle Sfere has appeared at the Bach Festival in Rimini, the Marco Scacchi Festival in Gallese, the Early Music Festival in Salerno, the San Giacomo Festival in Bologna, Gorizia Classica and the Sagra Malatestiana in Rimini, among other festivals and concert series.

On Giovanni Paisiello: Flute Quartets Op. 23 (Da Vinci Classics, C00003), the ensemble comprises Daniele Salvatore, Baroque flute; Alessandra Bottai, violin; Monica Pellicciari, viola; Perikli Pite, cello; and Silvia Rambaldi, harpsichord.