Dufay, Mouton, Palestrina: In Spiritum: Music for Cello and Bandoneon / Bracalente, Bonaventura

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
September 10, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Bracalente, Bonaventura
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 10, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421963815
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96381
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Ave maris stella (arr. D. di Bonaventura and F. Bracalente for cello and bandoneon)

      Composer: Guillaume Dufay

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    2. Tu dormi et amor veglia per mio danno (arr. D. di Bonaventura and F. Bracalente for cello and bandoneon)

      Composer: Eliseo Ghibellini

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    3. Sequentia No. 1

      Composer: Daniele di Bonaventura

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    4. Je languis en piteux martire (arr. D. di Bonaventura and F. Bracalente for cello and bandoneon)

      Composer: Guillaume Dufay

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    5. Tema del desiderio (version for cello and bandoneon)

      Composer: Daniele di Bonaventura

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    6. Adieu m'amour No. 2 (arr. D. di Bonaventura and F. Bracalente for cello and bandoneon)

      Composer: Alexander Agricola

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    7. Sequentia No. 2

      Composer: Daniele di Bonaventura

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    8. De tous biens plaine a 3 No. 2 (arr. D. di Bonaventura and F. Bracalente for cello and bandoneon)

      Composer: Alexander Agricola

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    9. Adieu adieu mon joyeulx souveni (arr. D. di Bonaventura and F. Bracalente for cello and bandoneon)

      Composer: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    10. Jesu, rex admirabilis (arr. D. di Bonaventura and F. Bracalente for cello and bandoneon)

      Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    11. Corale (version for cello and bandoneon)

      Composer: Daniele di Bonaventura

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    12. Sequentia No. 3

      Composer: Daniele di Bonaventura

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura

    13. Nesciens mater virgo virum (arr. D. di Bonaventura and F. Bracalente for cello and bandoneon)

      Composer: Jean Mouton

      Performer: Federico Bracalente, Daniele di Bonaventura


This recording, from friends and collaborators Federico Bracalente and Daniele di Bonaventura, stems from an idea they had almost 10 years ago: to merge the sounds of their respective instruments, the cello and the bandoneon, into a single sound. After a long period of research and experimentation the artists settled on the polyphonic vocal repertoire of the 15th and 16th centuries to realise their vision, reworking it through the inclusion of free and improvised parts. The practice of improvising pieces to alternate with other writings was commonplace during this musical period. Tinctoris in ‘Liber de arte contrapuncti’ describes the custom of Cantare super librum - the ability of the performers to elaborate a counterpoint to the mind. Taking advantage of the vocal characteristics of the two instruments – the extensive range and singing likeness of the cello and the two liturgical registers of the bandoneon (left hand and right hand) – the artists perform this music as if they are three singers, inserting it into a new tonal instrumental framework. In two pieces, Bracalente and di Bonaventura use an overdubbing technique to enable the cello to simultaneously perform the parts of Superius and Bassus (in Alexander Agricola’s De tous biens plaine II) and create a polyphonically more complex fabric in Jean Mouton's 8-voice motet Nesciens Mater.