Special Concert

MARCO MENCOBONI harpsichord

Music by Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Rocco Rodio, Bernardo Storace, Girolamo Frescobaldi

Free entrance

Giovanni Maria Trabaci, virtuoso

Rocco Rodio (ca 1530 – post 1615)
Ricercata seconda – From Libro di Ricercate Napoli, 1575

Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575-1647)
Toccata prima
Ricercata dell’ottavo tono con tre fughe
Toccata quarta
Gagliarda terza a 4, detta la Talianella – From secondo libro di Ricercate et altri vari Capricci, Napoli, 1615
Canzona Francesa Quarta
Partite sopra Rogiero
Durezze e ligature
Consonanze stravaganti
Io mi son giovinetto – From primo libro di Ricercate Canzone franzese et Capricci, Napoli, 1603

Gerolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Toccata Ottava
Partite sopra Follia – From Toccate e partite d’intavolatura di cimbalo libro primo, Roma, 1615

Bernardo Storace (ca 1664)
Il Ballo della battaglia – From Selva di varie compositioni. Venezia 1664

Italian harpsichord copy from Guarracino built by Roberto Livi

MARCO MENCOBONI was born in 1961 in Macerata. Harpsichordist, organist and orchestra conductor, he has studied with  Umberto Pineschi, Ton Koopman, Jesper Christensen and Gustav Leonhardt with whom he graduated at the Sweelinck Conservatorium of Amsterdam in 1990. He performs regularly as soloist and as director of the ensemble Cantar lontano in the main international early music festivals. In 2019 he will be  resident artist at  the Early Music Festival of Utrecht were he will produce four different performances of baroque Neapolitan music.  Since 2017 he is the director of the Monteverdi Project for the Teatro Manoel of Valletta in Malta where in 2020 he will conduct the Otello by Gioachino Rossini.