Title: Musical Journey: Italy - Ravenna Venice & Faenza
Format: DVD
Label: Naxos
Genre: Special Interest-Travel
UPC: 747313523757
Release Date: 2009
The tour starts in Northern Italy, in Ravenna, once the capital of the Roman Emperor Honorius, who moved there from Milan with his court in C.E. 402. The place is famous for it's mosaics. The tour also takes US to Faenza, famous for it's majolica ware, known as faience, and to the great Basilica of San Marco in Venice and it's Carnival. The music for this tour of Italy is by Mozart and includes his two Flute Concertos, written for a patron during a visit to Mannheim in 1777-78.
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