Featurung: Violin, Recorder/Dulcian, Cello, Violone, Organ, Theorbo, Harp, Percussion
This program explores the 17th century’s instrumental repertoire on «basso ostinato » : a call to improvisation and arrangement, linked to the most popular tradition of secular songs or dances seems to have been of great interest not only in the most famous italian musical centres like Venice, Mantova, Rome or Neaples, which were absolute references in terms of musical creation. Some popular patterns like the Folias de Espana or the Chacona were influencing even transalpine musical traditions, finding in the creativity of composers like Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, based in Vienna, a fertile field for newborn crossover musical styles. In this program, Concerto Scirocco explores the sound univers of 17th century’s secular repertoire, travelling all around Europe, from Spain to Italy, continuing to Germany, Austria and England, researching for the source that inspired all those brilliant composers and linked them together : the popular musical tradition.
Marco Uccellini (1603-1680) Sinfonia a Virmingarda
Salomone Rossi (1570-1630) Ruggiero
Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665) Ciaccona
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Sonata a 3
Anonim. England 17th century Paul’s Steeple
Anonim. England 17th, The Second Witches Dance
Anonim. England 17th The First of The Ladies
Anonim. (Robert Johnson?) Satyres Masque
Andrea Falconieri (1585-1656) La Suave Melodia
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620-1680) Ciaccona
Andrea Falconieri Folias, Battalla de Barbaso
Photo@Alejandro Gomez Lozano