"Canti di Corte", performance recorded in Mantova (Italy), Palazzo Te, on 2nd May 2011.
Davide Guarneri, oboe, Sara Pastine, violin, Giulia Novelli, cello, and Umberto Cerini, harpsichord, playing a work of Biagio Marini: "la Candela", sinfonia breve a 2 violini o cornetti, from "Affetti musicali" printed in Venice on 1617.

The composer and violinist BIAGIO MARINI (Brescia, ca. 1587, Venice, 1665), trained at the Monteverdi's school, in the thriving lagoon city and working in the area of the regions Lombardy and Veneto and in Germany, was celebrated for his technical virtuosity. With the collection "Affetti Musicali" op.1, (Venice, 1617) - in line with the monteverdian monody and "Affetti Cantabili" by Frescobaldi - he employs, perhaps for the first time, the appellation «sonata» applied to the violin, introduces considerable innovations as the use of tremolo and of grace notes with expressive function (groppo, as ordinary trill). Moreover, he employs the denomination affetto to define an instrumental collection, in order to emphasize the expressive ambition of its language and of the emotive contents of which the instruments, reproducing and imitating the human voice, are made powerful vehicles.

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