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Bitti: Sonate per flauto, Londra 1711
Tactus

Bitti: Sonate per flauto, Londra 1711

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Details

Composer
Martino Bitti
Artist
Daniele Rodi, Giorgia Zanin, Rolando Moro, Lisa Moroko
Format
CD
Label
Tactus
Released
Apr 05, 2024
Catalog #
TC650202
UPC
8007194108101

About

While for the most celebrated instrumentalists who defined the period straddling the seventeenth century and the eighteenth, the subsequent interest in the magnificence of late Baroque music promoted their relaying and study, this fate was not shared by Martino Bitti. After having been relegated on the fringe of the history of music, and perfunctorily accused, in the earliest, scanty biographic notes, of lacking in originality and innovative qualities, only in recent times did he begin to be the object of in-depth investigations and writings on the analysis and cataloguing of his works (see Michael Talbot’s ground-breaking essays).

In any case, what emerges from an examination of the sources relevant to Bitti’s biography is the figure of a musician who was fully integrated in one of the contexts that were most lively and stimulating for the Italian musical production between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth: the court of Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici (Florence 1663-1713), eldest son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III de’ Medici.

The recording of the Sonatas presented here is the final stage of a work of in-depth research that began with the study of the first editions and the experimentation of timbres and interpretations on copies of the early instruments, leading to the creation of a historically informed product.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major 06:30
    Track
    1
    Title
    8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major
    Duration
    06:30
    Composer
    Martino Bitti
    Ensemble
    Chroma Baroque Ensemble
  2. 2 8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 4 in G Minor 06:43
    Track
    2
    Title
    8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 4 in G Minor
    Duration
    06:43
    Composer
    Martino Bitti
    Ensemble
    Chroma Baroque Ensemble
  3. 3 8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 1 in C Major 05:50
    Track
    3
    Title
    8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 1 in C Major
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Martino Bitti
    Ensemble
    Chroma Baroque Ensemble
  4. 4 8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 5 in C Minor 07:36
    Track
    4
    Title
    8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 5 in C Minor
    Duration
    07:36
    Composer
    Martino Bitti
    Ensemble
    Chroma Baroque Ensemble
  5. 5 8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 3 in G Major 06:06
    Track
    5
    Title
    8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 3 in G Major
    Duration
    06:06
    Composer
    Martino Bitti
    Ensemble
    Chroma Baroque Ensemble
  6. 6 8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 7 in D Minor 08:40
    Track
    6
    Title
    8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 7 in D Minor
    Duration
    08:40
    Composer
    Martino Bitti
    Ensemble
    Chroma Baroque Ensemble
  7. 7 8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 6 in A Minor 08:13
    Track
    7
    Title
    8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 6 in A Minor
    Duration
    08:13
    Composer
    Martino Bitti
    Ensemble
    Chroma Baroque Ensemble
  8. 8 8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 8 in F Major 06:32
    Track
    8
    Title
    8 Sonatas: Flute Sonata No. 8 in F Major
    Duration
    06:32
    Composer
    Martino Bitti
    Ensemble
    Chroma Baroque Ensemble