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Sirens & Soldiers - Song without Words from the Italian Seic

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Details

Composer
Various
Artist
Concerto Scirocco, Giulia Genini
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Arcana
Released
Aug 23, 2024
Catalog #
A565
UPC
3760195735657

About

Just as the worthy and skilled painter imitates all things created in nature by varying the colours, in the same way you can imitate the expression made by the human voice on a wind and stringed instrument. This concept, which was explained by Silvestro Ganassi in his Opera intitulata La Fontegara already in 1535, has inspired Concerto Scirocco to seek the maximum expression when interpreting the instrumental music of the 16th and 17th centuries. Hand in hand with the development of the instrumental repertoire, rhetoric became the link between instrument and voice, between imitation and reality. Where words were lacking, composers and instrumentalists used rhetoric to delight listeners just as singers did.  In this, it's fifth, recording, Concerto Scirocco focuses on an early baroque anthology of pieces, "painting in notes" a number of musical portraits full of contrasts: the pulsating rhythm of the battle in the Symphonia "A gran battaglia", the beguiling mermaids in Marco Uccellini's Aria sopra "Questa bella Sirena", or the operatic tension in the Sonata a tre by Francesco Cavalli.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 Canzon, Op. 9, No. 11, "La Fontana" 03:41
    Track
    1
    Title
    Canzon, Op. 9, No. 11, "La Fontana"
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Tarquinio Merula
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  2. 2 Canzon No. 29, "Canzon super Cantionem Gallicam" 04:45
    Track
    2
    Title
    Canzon No. 29, "Canzon super Cantionem Gallicam"
    Duration
    04:45
    Composer
    Samuel Scheidt
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  3. 3 Intavolatura di liuto, Book 2: Liquide perle a 5 di Luca Marenzio (Contrappunto:CM): Duetto 03:38
    Track
    3
    Title
    Intavolatura di liuto, Book 2: Liquide perle a 5 di Luca Marenzio (Contrappunto:CM): Duetto
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Giovanni Antonio Terzi
    Performer
    Giovanni Bellini, Flora Papadopoulos
  4. 4 Sonata sopra la monica 06:03
    Track
    4
    Title
    Sonata sopra la monica
    Duration
    06:03
    Composer
    Philipp Friedrich Boddecker
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  5. 5 Canzoni da suonare, Book 4, Op. 17: No. 18. La cavagliera 03:29
    Track
    5
    Title
    Canzoni da suonare, Book 4, Op. 17: No. 18. La cavagliera
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Tarquinio Merula
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  6. 6 Sinfonie boscareccie, Op. 8: No. 34. La gran battaglia 02:32
    Track
    6
    Title
    Sinfonie boscareccie, Op. 8: No. 34. La gran battaglia
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Marco Uccellini
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  7. 7 Canzon decima sesta sopra la Monica 03:35
    Track
    7
    Title
    Canzon decima sesta sopra la Monica
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Ottavio Bargnani
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  8. 8 Il terzo libro de varie sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, brandi e corrente, Op. 12: Sonata prima detta la Moderna 04:49
    Track
    8
    Title
    Il terzo libro de varie sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, brandi e corrente, Op. 12: Sonata prima detta la Moderna
    Duration
    04:49
    Composer
    Salamone Rossi
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  9. 9 Musiche sacre concernenti messa, e salmi concertati con istromenti, imni, antifone et sonate: Canzon a 3 06:05
    Track
    9
    Title
    Musiche sacre concernenti messa, e salmi concertati con istromenti, imni, antifone et sonate: Canzon a 3
    Duration
    06:05
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  10. 10 Sonate a due, tre, e quattro, Op. 1: Sonata a 3 04:13
    Track
    10
    Title
    Sonate a due, tre, e quattro, Op. 1: Sonata a 3
    Duration
    04:13
    Composer
    Marco Ferro
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  11. 11 Sonate, correnti et arie, Op. 4: Aria No. 13, "Questa bella sirena" 03:47
    Track
    11
    Title
    Sonate, correnti et arie, Op. 4: Aria No. 13, "Questa bella sirena"
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Marco Uccellini
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  12. 12 Sonate, symphonie … e retornelli, Op. 8: No. 55. Canzon decima a 6 03:57
    Track
    12
    Title
    Sonate, symphonie … e retornelli, Op. 8: No. 55. Canzon decima a 6
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Biagio Marini
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  13. 13 Fantasia detta la Portia 04:04
    Track
    13
    Title
    Fantasia detta la Portia
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Andrea Falconieri
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  14. 14 Il terzo libro de varie sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, brandi e corrente, Op. 12: Sonata sopra l'aria di Ruggiero 04:14
    Track
    14
    Title
    Il terzo libro de varie sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, brandi e corrente, Op. 12: Sonata sopra l'aria di Ruggiero
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Salamone Rossi
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  15. 15 Trattenimento per camera d'arie, correnti, e balletti, Op. 22: No. 9. Ballo delle Ombre 02:05
    Track
    15
    Title
    Trattenimento per camera d'arie, correnti, e balletti, Op. 22: No. 9. Ballo delle Ombre
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Maurizio Cazzati
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini
  16. 16 Serenada in Mascara: Ciaconna in A Major 08:04
    Track
    16
    Title
    Serenada in Mascara: Ciaconna in A Major
    Duration
    08:04
    Composer
    Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
    Ensemble
    Concerto Scirocco
    Conductor
    Giulia Genini