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Bitti - Flute Sonatas (London, 1711) | Tactus TC650202

Bitti - Flute Sonatas (London, 1711)

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Label: Tactus

Cat No: TC650202

Barcode: 8007194108101

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 5th April 2024

Contents

Artists

Chroma Baroque Ensemble

Works

Bitti, Martino

Flute Sonatas (8)

Artists

Chroma Baroque Ensemble

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.

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