Caccini: Amarilli / Balconi, Fantazyas

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
June 25, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CACCINI, GIULIO
    • PERFORMER
      Fantazyas, Balconi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 25, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421962542
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96254
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Movetevi à pietà

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    2. Queste lagrim'amare

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    3. Dolcissimo sospiro

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    4. Io parto, amati lumi

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    5. Amor, io parto, e sento nel partire

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    6. Ardi, cor mio

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    7. Non più guerra, pietate

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    8. Perfidissimo volto

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    9. Ard'il mio petto misero

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    10. Vedro 'l mio sol, vedro prima ch'io muoia

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    11. Fere selvaggie

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    12. Fillide mia, se di belta sei vaga

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    13. Amarilli, mia bella

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    14. Sfogava con le stelle

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    15. Fortunato augellino

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    16. Udite, udite, amanti

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    17. Occh'immortali

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    18. Dovrò dunque morire

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    19. Odi, Euterpe, il dolce canto

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    20. Filli, mirando il cielo

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

    21. Belle rose porporine

      Composer: Giulio Caccini

      Ensemble: Fantazyas


In this expert recording, singer Roberto Balconi and group Fantasyas approach Giulio Caccini’s (1551-1618) Le Nuove Musiche with a focus on authentic performance practice as specified in great detail by the composer himself in the preface to the work. Dated 1601 and published in 1602, Le Nuove Musiche contains madrigals and arias for solo voice with basso continuo accompaniment and is a seminal collection in the establishment of the new Baroque style of monody which broke with Renaissance practices in many significant ways. In the preface, Caccini exhorts the performers to honour the primacy of speech and speech rhythm. Balconi explains: ‘Monody is more about words and metre than singing, focusing on the declamation of the semantic, rhetorical and prosodic elements of the poetic text rather than constructing a melody.’ This was a departure from the combined voices of Renaissance counterpoint, a move towards solo poetic recitation with the nuance of music in service of the meaning. Caccini lays out guidelines for the retrained and appropriate use of the improvised ornamentation that was the vogue in his day but which he considered too often gratuitous and overly virtuosic at the expense of the music. He stresses these should be used judiciously so that the singer can ‘almost speak in harmony’, in other words recite the text more or less normally using music. In adhering assiduously to Caccini’s compositional concept, Balconi and Fantazyas create an authentic and powerfully moving document of the birth of monody, which not only inspired the invention of opera but changed the entire course of music history.