La Fonte Musica
Artist in residence La Fonte Musica reconstructs the premiere of Monteverdi’s Combattimento in 1624 – an evening about which the composer himself left valuable clues. First: madrigals sung ‘without any gesture’. Then: Clorinda who enters the space and unleashes the dramatic duel. In a concert like a sound séance, Michele Pasotti and his companions dream of what Monteverdi had in mind: static polyphony bursting at the seams and transforming into vibrant music theatre – the shock of the early Baroque!
Programme
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Salamone Rossi
Sinfonia grave à 5
c1570-c1630 -
Claudio Monteverdi
Sfogava con le stelle (from: Madrigali, libro IV)
Cruda Amarilli (from: Madrigali, libro V)1567-1643 -
Dario Castello
Sonata XV
fl. first half 17th century -
Claudio Monteverdi
Anima mia perdona/Che se tu se’ il cor mio (from: Madrigali, libro IV)
Sinfonia (from: Orfeo, 1609)
Ohimè il bel viso (from: Madrigali, libro VI)
Sinfonia (from: Madrigali, libro VIII)
Zefiro Torna e’ bel tempo rimena (from: Madrigali, libro VI) -
Salamone Rossi
Sonata ‘La Moderna’
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Claudio Monteverdi
Hor che’l ciel e la terra (from: Madrigali libro VIII)
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Alena Dantcheva, Francesca Cassinari soprano
- Elena Carzaniga alto
- Massimo Altieri, Riccardo Pisani tenor
- Mauro Borgioni baritone
- Alessandro Ravasio bass
- Stefano Rossi, Lathika Vithanage violin
- Gianni De Rosa viola
- Vanni Moretto double bass
- Federica Bianchi harpsichord
- Rodney Prada viola da gamba, lirone
- Michele Pasotti musical direction, theorbo, lute
