Description
The opening concert of the exhibition ‘Monteverdi e Caravaggio’
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Franco Pavan, lute and theorbo
LA BELLA PIÙ BELLA
Giulio Romano (XVI – XVII secolo)
Strana armonia d’amore
(Il Fuggilotio Musicale, Venezia 1613)
Giulio Caccini (ca. 1550 – 1618)
Dolcissimo sospiro
Dalla porta d’Oriente
(Bruxelles, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire, ms. 704)
Vincenzo Bernia (XVI – XVII secolo)
Toccata Cromatica – Corrente sopra la Monyca
(CZ.Pnm IV.G.8; D-B 4022)
Giuseppino Cenci (seconda metà del XVI secolo – 1616),
Fuggi, fuggi
(Firenze, Biblioteca del Conservatorio, ms. Barbera)
Deh dolce anima mia
(Venezia, Biblioteca del Conservatorio, ms. Torrefranca 250)
Claudio Monteverdi/Anonimo
Lamento della Maddalena sopra quello di Arianna
(Bologna, Biblioteca del Conservatorio, ms. Q 45)
Anonimo
Aria alla francese
(Münster, Santini Bibliothek, Hs. 4108)
Tarquinio Merula (1595 – 1665)
Folle è ben
(Curtio precipitato et altri Capricij, Venezia 1638)
Johannes Hieronimus Kapsperger (ca. 1580 – 1651)
Figlio dormi
(Libro Secondo di Villanelle, Roma 1619)
Johannes Hieronimus Kapsperger
Toccata
(Hamburg Staats- und Universitäts-Bibliothek, Real. ND. VI, no. 3238)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643)
Ecco di dolci raggi
(Scherzi musicali, Venezia 1632)
Voglio di vita uscir
(UNC, Music Library, Music VN2.1 M1)
Known for her dazzling and elegant displays in the music of the later Baroque, the Milanese singer has also nurtured, across her career, the more delicate and nuanced art of the Italian song repertory from the early 17th century, a time when courtly and polyphonic expression were giving way to the moving of the emotions by a solo singer accompanied by a single instrument. La bella più bella sees that queen of Baroque music, Roberta Invernizzi, sailing gracefully across the terrain of such monody in songs composed by the likes of Girolamo Kapsberger’s, Giulio Caccini, Tarquinio Merula and Claudio Monteverdi.