Bonporti: Complete Sonatas for 2 Violins and B.C.

The definitive collection of Bonporti’s chamber music, including many first-ever recordings. Labirinti Armonici is an Italian-based early-music ensemble with a string of Brilliant Classics albums to its credit, focusing on the neglected music of the north-Italian composer Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672–1749). A priest like his contemporary Vivaldi, he focused his creative energies on music for the church and for chamber ensemble, and it is this impressive catalogue of work that Labirinti Armonici has documented. Purchase or streaming (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music) More Information: Bonporti has by and large been heard only in excerpted, fragmentary form on collections of Italian-Baroquecomposers, but Labirinti Armonici reveal the true breadth of his creative personality. There are four surviving collections of stylish sonatas for two violins and continuo, published as Opp. 1, 2, 4 and 6. Labirinti Armonici take an imaginative approach to the continuo part, enriching