DESCRIPTION:
Davide Guarneri oboe, and Sara Pastine violin, wth Michele Lanzini cello and Simone Ori harpsichord, playing Biagio Marini: "La Candela", Sinfonia breve a 2 Violini o Cornetti by the edition "Afffetti musicali", Venezia 1617.
"Canti di Corte", performance recorded in Bozzolo (Italy) on 13th June 2010.

Biagio Marini (Brescia 1597 ca - Venezia 1665)
Although he wrote both instrumental and vocal music, he is better known for his innovative instrumental compositions. He contributed to the early development of the string idiom by expanding the performance range of the solo and accompanied violin and incorporating slur, double and even triple stopping, and the first explicitly notated tremolo effects into his music. He was also among the first composers, after Marco Uccellini, to call for scordatura tunings. He made contributions to most of the contemporary genres and investigated unusual compositional procedures, like constructing an entire sonata without a cadence (as in his Sonata senza cadenza). At least some, and perhaps a great deal, of his output is lost, but that which survives exhibits his inventiveness, lyrical skill, harmonic boldness, and growing tendency toward common practice tonality.