Corelli & Company

- The members of the renowned ensemble La Dada, Dutch-born recorder player Han Tol, American-born bassoon player David Mings and English-born harpsichordist Patrick Ayrton, are all among the leading musicians in the field of baroque music, as can be read in their biographies in the booklet.

- "Unter La Dada wird alte Musik wieder jung", "Voller überraschender Momente", "Neuer Wein in alten Schläuchen", "Virtuose Sonaten brillant gespielt", "Puntgave barok in Taffeh-zaal", "La Dada ratifica su virtuosismo en los recitales de Santander y Torrelavega", were some of the reactions of reviewers from important papers.

- Han Tol and David Mings are also members or La Fontegara whose recordings for Globe (GLO 5033- Bolsmortier and GLO 506S-17th century Italian recorder music) have met with great success everywhere.

- The program on this CD has been built around Corelli whose influence on all of his contemporaries has been enormous. There are quite a few pieces on this CD which have very seldom or even never before recorded. Also the combination of instruments: recorder(s), bassoon and harpsichord or organ, makes it a unique item which should appeal to baroque music lovers all over the globe.

'La Dada' is the title of a composition by the Italian composer Tarquinio Merula from the year 1637. As is often the case with music from this period, it is not clear what 'La Dada' exactly means. Like a great many of his contemporaries, Merula was a composer who has fallen into oblivion. He worked in an era where unheard-of developments took place: the "invention of the violin, the composing of the first purely instrumental music... Merula fouud himself in the good company of people such as Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Gabrielli, Stradivari, Amati, Bernini and countless others.

The quality of this incredible music led to the foundation in 1984 of the Ensemble 'La Dada', with the aim of mapping out and unearthing as many manuscripts and old prints as possible, the study of the specific techniques and presenting the ultimate result of all this on the concert platform.
In recent years La Dada played at great festivals such as as, among others, Boston, Salzburg, Munich, Berlin, Rome, Milan, Naples, Santander, Ludwigsburg, Herne, Hamburg, Albertville, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Bremen, Mechlin, Brussels, Nuremburg, Heidelberg, Freiburg, Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague.