Fermate Il Passo: Tracing the Origins of Opera
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Label: Arcana
Cat No: A376
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 23rd June 2014
Contents
Artists
VivaBiancaLuna Biffi (soprano, viola d’arco)Artists
VivaBiancaLuna Biffi (soprano, viola d’arco)About
This unique and, in some respects, revolutionary programme offers a new approach to the Early Italian Renaissance frottola repertoire. First of all, the solo performance with voice and viola d’arco, that cantare alla viola (‘singing to the viol’) which Baldassare Castiglione, in his famous Book of the Courtier (1527), indicated as the ‘more welcome’ way of performing a sung text.
Secondly, the frottole have been selected and put in order forming a miniature opera with a Prologue, three acts and Epilogue, shedding new light on the origins of opera.
A charismatic figure, VivaBiancaLuna Biffi is engaged in intense solo activity and is regular partner of some of the leading Early Music performers such as Jordi Savall, Pierre Hamon and Brigitte Lesne.
Contents:
Prologue
Tempus fugit — Where the theme is the fleeting nature of time, and human mortality
1. Voi che passate qui, fermate il passo
2. Paolo Scotti: O tempo, o ciel volubil che fuggendo
Act I
Love and the lover’s gaze: Sunset
3. Anonymous: Se a mi che t’amo tanto doni morte
4. Marchetto Cara: S’io sedo all’ombra Amor giù pone’l strale
5. Philippus de Luprano: Se m’è grato il tuo tornare
6. Se per colpa del vostro altiero sdegno
7. Francesco Varoter: Nasce l’aspro mio tormento
8. Variations on the theme by Giambattista Zezzo Staralla ben cussì?
9. Anonimo: Haimé, perché m’hai privo
Act II
Love and scorn: Night
10. Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace
11. Bartolomeo Tromboncino: Non val acqua al mio gran foco
12. Dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide tantum
13. Anonymous: Scopri, lingua, el mio martire
14. Variations of the theme La Folia
15. Io spero, e lo sperar cresce il tormento
16. Nicolò Broco: Per servirte perdo i passi
17. Marchetto Cara: Se de fede vengo a meno
Dreamlike Interlude
18. Marchetto Cara: Nasce la speme mia da una dolce riso
Act III
The surrender to love: Dawn
19. O numquam pro re satis indignande Cupido
20. Marchetto Cara: Deh non più, deh non più mo’
21. Variations on the theme by Antonio Stingari Son più matti a questo mondo
22. Fammi quanto dispe=o far mi sai
23. Marchetto Cara: Nasce la speme mia da un dolce riso
24. Bartolomeo Tromboncino: Ostinato vo’ seguire
Epilogue
Carpe diem — In which the theme is vain hope
25. Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas
26. Marchetto Cara: Io non compro più speranza
27. Francesco Varoter: Voi che passate qui, firmate il passo
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