Alfabeto Falso

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Label
Arcana
Release Date
July 28, 2017
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FOSCARINI KAPSBERGER PICCINI
    • PERFORMER
      I Bassifondi, Vallerotonda
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 28, 2017
    • UPC
      3760195734353
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      A435
    • LABEL
      Arcana
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Toccata detta la Inamoratta

      Composer: Giovanni Paolo Foscarini

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    2. Gagliarda francese

      Composer: Giovanni Paolo Foscarini

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    3. Passacagli passegiati sopra l'e

      Composer: Giovanni Paolo Foscarini

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    4. Improvisation No. 1

      Composer: Simone Vallerotonda

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    5. Sfessania

      Composer: Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    6. Passacaglia

      Composer: Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    7. Scaramanze

      Composer: Antonio Carbonchi

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    8. Folias gallegas

      Composer: Santiago de Murcia

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    9. Capona

      Composer: Francesco Valdambrini

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    10. Toccata cromatica

      Composer: Alessandro Piccinini

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    11. Improvisation No. 2

      Composer: Josep Maria Marti Duran

      Performer: Josep Maria Marti Duran

    12. Partite sopra quest'aria francese detta l'Alemana

      Composer: Alessandro Piccinini

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    13. Corrente No. 6 Sopra l'Alemana

      Composer: Alessandro Piccinini

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    14. Improvisation No. 3

      Composer: Simone Vallerotonda

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    15. Cumbees

      Composer: Santiago de Murcia

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    16. Passacaglia in D

      Composer: Angelo Michele Bartolotti

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    17. Passacaglia

      Composer: Francesco Corbetta

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    18. Kapsberger

      Composer: Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    19. Corrente Sesta

      Composer: Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    20. Aria di Frenze per la C (D Major)

      Composer: Giovanni Paolo Foscarini

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    21. Colascione

      Composer: Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    22. Los Impossibles

      Composer: Santiago de Murcia

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi

    23. Improvisation No. 4

      Composer: Simone Vallerotonda, Josep Maria Marti Duran, Gabriele Miracle

      Ensemble: I Bassifondi


After the success of ''L'ultimo romano'', his album of music for archlute from the 1718 collection of the Roman composer Giovanni Zamboni, Simone Vallerotonda presents something totally new with his Baroque ''power trio'' I Bassifondi: ''Alfabeto falso''. Their debut album is devoted to Italian and Spanish music for guitar and theorbo from the first half of the seventeenth century. A little-known repertory, characterized by rhythmic oddities and harmonic extravagances that challenge those of contemporary jazz. Ordinary ''alfabeto'' was the system used by guitarists of the period to mark chords: each letter corresponded to a single chord. But, in the ''false alphabet'', those letters which were marked with a slash indicated chords containing dissonances, often very bold. The trio, comprising guitar/theorbo, percussion instruments and colachon, reconstructs an ensemble typical of the seventeenth century. Breathtaking rhythms, ''dirty'' chords, improvisations and variations: these are the colors they seek to convey in their sound. The beauty and the challenge of this disc lie precisely in providing an interpretation that respects everything notated in the score, and in the choice of arrangements and timbres. This music sounds modern and perhaps slightly provocative to us, but all of it was written around 1640.