On Tuesday, October 31, 2023, at the Sosat Hall in the historic center of Trento, Labirintio Armonici, there will be a concert for the BAROCKO23 Season, a concert in which the absolute protagonist will be the Sonata for violin and basso continuo that saw its development during the 1700s thanks to great composers who contributed to writing fundamental pages of the history of music.
Between Italy and France it is the title of the concert because it is precisely from these two great countries that the repertoire of this concert is drawn, testifying to the fact that beauty has no borders. Thus, alongside Our Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Gentilhuomo di Trento, whose Serenade from Op. XII will be performed, we find Jean Marie Leclair who throughout his life has tried to reconcile Italian and French styles. Leclair's sonata V op. 5 will be performed. This was followed by the first opera sonata I by Francesco Maria Veracini, a genius and unregulated person, considered a "crazy boss" (crazy head) by his contemporaries for his crazy temperament.
Composer, violin virtuoso, François Francoeur is a figure of great importance in the field of French opera and profoundly affects the development of the French violin school with the Sonatas Book I and Book II, respectively of 1720 and 1730, for violin and basso continuo, rich in technical innovations (sonata VI from Book II).
The great Giuseppe Tartini, founder of the Venetian school of the violin and beautiful sound, will perform the sonata X called "La Didone Abandonata" for the poignant melodies that distinguish it.
The programme will end with a sonata by Henry Eccles, an English composer who has spent his entire life in Paris. The interesting thing is that the second movement of Sonata XI of the First Book is taken from an Invention by Bonporti, testifying to the fact that the Trentino composer was known and esteemed throughout Europe.
The performers will be Andrea Ferroni on Baroque violin, Matteo Bodini on Baroque cello and Marcello Rossi Corradini on harpsichord.
