Rondò Veneziano is an Italian chamber orchestra incorporating a rock-style rhythm section of synthesizer, bass guitar and drums, directed by Maestro Gian Piero Reverberi. It has produced as of 2005 26 musical albums, almost one for each year since its founding in 1979. The first decade of albums were entirely original compositions in the style of the baroque rondò being "a musical composition built on the alternation of a principal recurring theme and contrasting episodes". In later years Rondò Veneziano also brought their trademark fusion of classical and contemporary instruments to a number of albums dedicated to some of the great composers of the classical and baroque tradition.