Hana Blažíková, Valer Sabadus, Franz Vitzthum, Florian Götz & Nuovo Aspetto - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Bravo! Bene! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 66:45 minutes | 1,18 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: CPO, Official Digital Download
When Francesco Bartolomeo Conti came to Vienna in 1701, aged just twenty, he quickly found employment as a theorbo player in the imperial court chapel. His virtuoso skills with the plucked instruments of the time must have been considerable and would have been enough to secure him a good living. But Conti was also a remarkably creative spirit who, on his death in 1732, left behind an impressive quantity of stage works, some of which were widely performed - not least thanks to their original, imaginative instrumentation and their immense variety of expression, ranging from the drastically comic to filigree, vocal-instrumental dialogues and thus encompassing the whole world of "affects".