When Francesco Bartolomeo Conti came to Vienna in 1701, aged just twenty, he quickly found employment as a theorbo player in the imperial court chapel. His virtuoso skills with the plucked instruments of the time must have been considerable and would have been enough to secure him a good living. But Conti was also a remarkably creative spirit who, on his death in 1732, left behind an impressive quantity of stage works, some of which were widely performed - not least thanks to their original, imaginative instrumentation and their immense variety of expression, ranging from the drastically comic to filigree, vocal-instrumental dialogues and thus encompassing the whole world of InchaffectsInch. Led by the soprano and harpist Hana Blazikova and the countertenor Valer Sabadus, flanked by the ensemble nuovo aspetto under the direction of theorbist Michael Ducker, this production presents a small musical anthology whose fascinating content is just 300 years old. Album Tracks 1. Fra queste umrose piante~Recitative and Aria. Voi dunque ardite... Scelta idea di nobiltà 2. Archelao, re di Cappacia~Aria. Se mai dal crudo artiglio 3. Creso~Aria. Non lascio no d'amar 4. Penelope~Recitative, Preludio and Aria. Bravo bene 5. Sesostri~Aria. Volgendo al nido il volo 6. Feraspe~Aria. Mare irato 7. Fuga in f minor 2 violin, viola, cello, double bass, theorbo, harpsichord 8. Work(s)~Introduction to the aria InchDei colli nostriInch 9. trionfo dell'amicizia e dell'amore~Aria Dei colli nostri 10. David~Preludio 11. Galatea vendicato~Introduzione ed Aria. Cor costanie, ed umil 12. trionfo della grazia~Sinfonia vaga, e suave 13. Gioseffo~Aria. Bramo un core