"Canti di Corte", performance recorded in San Martino dall'Argine (Italty), Chiesa Castello, on 1st May 2011.
Sara Pastine and Federico Mechelli, violins, Giulia Novelli, cello, and Umberto Cerini, harpsichord, playing Marini's "Sonata 1" from op.VIII, printed in Venice on 1629.

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. In the collection "Sonate, Symphonie, Canzoni, Passemezzi, Baletti, Corenti, Gagliarde & Retornelli", op. VIII (1629), the «curious and modern inventions» deal with scordatura, double strings, string changes and a careful dislocation of the sound sources to achieve echo effects. In the "first Sonata a due violini" and in "Sonata sopra la Monica" Marini gives more importance to the peculiarities of violin, organizing the instrumental language in a longer, richer and more variegated dialogue.

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