Labirinti Armonici

Labirinti Armonici – Bonporti: Sonatas, Op. 1 for 2 Violins and B.C. (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:41 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Francesco Bonporti (1672-1749) lived for the largest part of his life in Trento, his native town. He studied in Rome, and was influenced by Arcangelo Corelli, whose style of imitative counterpoint he invests with dramatic elements. His fame spread over Europe and the great Johann Sebastian Bach transcribed for harpsichord some of his violin sonatas.

The complete Trio Sonatas for 2 Violins & B.C. Op. 1 consist of the 4 movements of the Sonata di Chiesa (Church Sonatas). The first violin is mainly predominant, the other two instruments usually providing the accompaniment. The faster movements require virtuoso skills from the performers while the slow movements flow in sensitive and slightly melancholy melodic lines.

The Italian group Labirinti Armonici specializes in the performance of undiscovered Baroque music, it consists of two violins, cello and harpsichord/organ. They successfully recorded the Bonporti Sonatas Op. 2 for Brilliant Classics.

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Labirinti Armonici – Bonporti: Sonatas, Op. 6 for 2 Violins and B.C. (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:06 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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Volume 4 in a critically acclaimed survey of Bonporti’s music reaches Op.6, perhaps the most overlooked treasure in the output of the ‘gentleman from Trento’. This was the nickname bestowed on himself by Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672 – 1749), who was born in the northern Italian city, and made his career as a musician in the surrounding region before dying in Padova.

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Labirinti Armonici – Bonporti: Sonatas, Op. 2 for 2 Violins and B.C. (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:59 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672-1749) was a priest first and musician second: a ‘gentiluomo di Trento’ as he described himself on the title page of his Op.1 trio sonatas. Chamber music continued to be Bonporti’s preferred creative outlet, at a time when cantatas and increasingly operas obtained wider favour, and his increasingly strenuous attempts to gain royal or aristocratic preferment by dedicating and sending his works to kings, queens and princes proved ever fruitless: he died as he worked, a humble cleric.

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