Violin & basso continuo SKU: HH.HH332-FSP
Composed by Martino Bitti. Edited by Alessandro Borin and Michael Talbot. Violin & Basso Continuo. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH332-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH332-FSP). ISBN 9790708092919.
The sonata in D minor captures the traditional mood of this key: serious minded and a little plaintive. The second of its four movements, a corrente like fast movement in triple metre, reminds one of Vivaldi in its insistence on a tiny, constantly repeated musical figure. In the other movements, however, Bitti shows a more typical side of his style where the free spinning out of melody, exquisitely shaped, dominates over strict repetition.