Bonporti: Bonporti Edition Vol.3 - Accademia I Filarmonici, Martini

Francesco Antonio Bonporti
Bonporti Edition Vol.3 - Concerti a Quattro
Accademia I Filarmonici, Alberto Martini
Dynamic CDS 353-1-2

It took me well over a year to find a copy of this OOP recording for sale and the price tag was accordingly so I really hope you will all enjoy it. I know I do. - Sankerib

Complete works (Vol. 3): Concerti a Quattro Op. XI With this new recording Dynamic continues its project to publish all the works by Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672-1749). Born in Trento, Bonporti remained practically unknown up to the early 1900s, when a scholar of Bach, Werner Wolfheim, realised that four compositions thought to have been by Johann Sebastian Bach were instead transcriptions, in Bach's handwriting, of four Invenzioni a violino solo e basso continuo by the Italian Bonporti. This third volume features the Concerti a Quattro per due violini, viola, violone e cembalo, undoubtedly the apex of Bonporti's output. From the point of view of instrumental writing, these works are half way between the concerto for solo, in the form codified by Vivaldi at the beginning of the 1700s, and the concerto grosso of Corellian tradition. All ten concertos, however, have a clearly individual imprint, which makes for very pleasant listening. - Amazon.com