Starter Packs

Complete your collection with these curated titles, grouped at a special discount.

Shop Now
Caccini: Amarilli / Balconi, Fantazyas
Brilliant Classics

Caccini: Amarilli / Balconi, Fantazyas

$10.99
$13.99 Save 20%

Details

Composer
CACCINI, GIULIO
Artist
Fantazyas, Balconi
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jun 25, 2021
Catalog #
BRI96254
UPC
5028421962542

About

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.

Tracklist 21 tracks

  1. 1 Movetevi à pietà 03:02
    Track
    1
    Title
    Movetevi à pietà
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  2. 2 Queste lagrim'amare 05:08
    Track
    2
    Title
    Queste lagrim'amare
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  3. 3 Dolcissimo sospiro 02:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    Dolcissimo sospiro
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  4. 4 Io parto, amati lumi 06:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    Io parto, amati lumi
    Duration
    06:06
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  5. 5 Amor, io parto, e sento nel partire 03:15
    Track
    5
    Title
    Amor, io parto, e sento nel partire
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  6. 6 Ardi, cor mio 04:39
    Track
    6
    Title
    Ardi, cor mio
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  7. 7 Non più guerra, pietate 02:46
    Track
    7
    Title
    Non più guerra, pietate
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  8. 8 Perfidissimo volto 03:26
    Track
    8
    Title
    Perfidissimo volto
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  9. 9 Ard'il mio petto misero 02:41
    Track
    9
    Title
    Ard'il mio petto misero
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  10. 10 Vedro 'l mio sol, vedro prima ch'io muoia 03:39
    Track
    10
    Title
    Vedro 'l mio sol, vedro prima ch'io muoia
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  11. 11 Fere selvaggie 02:38
    Track
    11
    Title
    Fere selvaggie
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  12. 12 Fillide mia, se di belta sei vaga 03:22
    Track
    12
    Title
    Fillide mia, se di belta sei vaga
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  13. 13 Amarilli, mia bella 02:46
    Track
    13
    Title
    Amarilli, mia bella
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  14. 14 Sfogava con le stelle 02:30
    Track
    14
    Title
    Sfogava con le stelle
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  15. 15 Fortunato augellino 02:45
    Track
    15
    Title
    Fortunato augellino
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  16. 16 Udite, udite, amanti 02:02
    Track
    16
    Title
    Udite, udite, amanti
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  17. 17 Occh'immortali 02:34
    Track
    17
    Title
    Occh'immortali
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  18. 18 Dovrò dunque morire 02:19
    Track
    18
    Title
    Dovrò dunque morire
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  19. 19 Odi, Euterpe, il dolce canto 02:42
    Track
    19
    Title
    Odi, Euterpe, il dolce canto
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  20. 20 Filli, mirando il cielo 03:18
    Track
    20
    Title
    Filli, mirando il cielo
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas
  21. 21 Belle rose porporine 03:35
    Track
    21
    Title
    Belle rose porporine
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Ensemble
    Fantazyas