Violin & basso continuo SKU: HH.HH331-FSP
Composed by Martino Bitti. Edited by Alessandro Borin and Michael Talbot. Violin & Basso Continuo. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH331-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH331-FSP). ISBN 9790708092902.
This Sonata in A major belonging to the ‘London’ group was published by John Walsh in January 1704 as the opening work in a series of violin sonatas by different composers delivered to subscribers in twelve monthly instalments. It is also preserved in the manuscript in the British library containing seven violin sonatas by Bitti. It is an extrovert work well suited to public performance — we know that the Cremonese violinist Gasparo Visconti played it at Drury Lane Theatre. The structure follows a pattern that recalls a sonata da camera by Corelli: a prelude like movement followed in turn by a corrente, a slow, triple time movement resembling a sarabanda, and a giga. .
