VITALI: Partite sopra diverse sonate per il violino. Partite sopra diverse sonate per il violone. 2 Sonate a violino e basso

VITALI Partite sopra diverse sonate per il violino. Partite sopra diverse sonate per il violone. 2 Sonate a violino e basso * italico Splendore (period instruments) * TACTUS 632204 (60:03)

Nowadays, when we hear the name Vitali, we think of the violin Chaconne, a work nevertheless played and recorded more during our grandfathers era than it is today. That work was composed by Tomaso Antonio Vitali. This disc, however, is devoted to the music of his father, Giovanni Battista Vitali, a Bolognese who was born in 1632 and who died 60 years later. He spent his peak years in Modena, serving as maestro di cappello or assistant maestro di cappello to the court of the Este family. Depending on what source you read, he was either a master of the violone or (as Tactuss booklet note would...