Animals in Renaissance music

Ensemble PassiSparsi. 
Martha Rook, soprano
Cora Mariani, mezzosoprano
Elisabetta Vuocolo, alto
Neri Landi, tenor
Lorenzo Tosi, basse
Tommaso Tarsi, lute

Tickets € 10
Reduced tickets € 8 (up to 30 years of age and above 65, students of music schools

Programme

Filippo Azzaiolo (ca. 1530/40 – ?), Quando la sera canta el griolin
Josquin Des Prez (ca. 1450 – 1521), El grillo
Orazio Vecchi (1550 – 1605), Mi vorrei trasformare
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Giovanni Domenico da Nola (c.1510/20 – 1592), Amor m’ha fatto deventar fenice
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Baldassarre Donato (ca. 1525/30 – 1603), No pulice m’entrato nell’orecchia
Filippo Azzaiolo, Sentomi la formicula 4vv
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Jaques Arcadelt (1507 – 1568), Il bianco e dolce cigno
Francesco Corteccia (1502 – 1571), Madonna io t’aggi amat’ed amo assai
Orlando di Lasso (1532 –1594), S’io fusse ciaul e tu lo campanile
Giacomo Gorzanis (1520 – 1575), La turturella
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Pietro da Lodi (XV sec.), El basilisco ha l’ochio como un dardo
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Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (1550 – 1622), Miracol’in natura
Anonimo (XV sec.), Quasi sempre avanti dì
Antonio Scandello (1517 – 1580), Haveva na gallina capelluta
Adrian Willaert (1490 – 1562), Madonna mia fame bona offerta
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Stefano Lando (ca. 1530 – 1571), Io mi vivea com’Aquila
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Adriano Banchieri (1568 – 1634), Contrappunto bestiale alla mente

The concert celebrates animal figures in Renaissance vocal music. In the selected passages, of different characters and authors, whether it is high poetry or popular nursery rhymes, whether it is about noble impulses or earthly appetites, the animal is always somehow the “mirror” through which humans play at recognizing their own peculiar character, a need, a desire.