Federico Maria Sardelli is a highly respected musician and conductor rightly famed for his numerous outstanding recordings (the Vivaldi Edition on Naive). Sardelli is also a composer of Baroque music. His own Modo Antiquo and a line-up of excellent international soloists perform his works conducted by him. 'It's important for me to point out that I don't compose 'neo-Baroque' music, but Baroque music. It's not a question of revisiting a musical idiom, or being influenced by it. What I do is breathe new life into a style that's dead so that it regains it's own original language and adheres to it's own original criteria, expressing vibrant new ideas that are keeping with it's identity.' -Sardelli.