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‘As a performer on the hautboy, Giuseppe Sammartini, ‘Londinese’, was undoubtedly the greatest that the world had ever known. He contrived to produce such a tone as approached the nearest to that of the human voice. His Concerti grossi and his later sets of Concertos have a breadth of invention and sureness of purpose second only to the music of Handel’. (General History of the Science and Practice of Music, 1776). After CD editions of neglected works by Mudge, Hayes, Gregori, Hertel and Lully, Capriccio, the ‘discoverer’s orchestra’, presents a further premiere of inspired works by Giuseppe Sammartini, younger brother of the more famous Giovanni Battista Sammartini.