Labirinti Armonici - Bonporti: Sonatas, Op. 1 for 2 Violins and B.C. (2020)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 01:00:41 | 311 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics
Polished, historically informed accounts of little-known trio sonatas from the high noon of the Italian Baroque. ‘The playing is of a high order,’ observed Early Music World when reviewing Labirinti Armonici’s debut on Brilliant Classics (BC95718), with the Op.2 Sonatas of Francesco Antonio Bonporti: ‘the overall effect is of a highly professional group at home with the repertoire. So little of Bonporti’s works have been recorded to the highest standards; let us hope this is a start of a revival!’ Such hopes are answered here by a second disc, which returns to the set of sonatas da Chiesa which first made Bonporti’s name when they were published in 1696. Corelli, no less, is said to have instructed him in violin playing, though Bonporti regarded himself as primarily a priest rather than a composer.