Roma '600 I Bassifondi & Simone Vallerotonda

• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580 - 1651):
• 1 Arpeggio 00:48
• Enrico Onofri (b. 1967), I Bassifondi, Simone Vallerotonda (b. 1983):
• 2 Foscarini's Groove 02:46
• Arcangelo Lori (1611 - 1679):
• 3 Toccata dell'Arcangelo 01:44
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 4 Scherzate, gioite, godete pastori 00:53
• 5 Sordellina 00:56
• Anonymous:
• 6 Ciachone 02:19
• Tommaso Marchetti (1603 - 1668):
• 7 Aurilla mia 00:40
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 8 Aurilla mia 00:43
• Simone Vallerotonda:
• 9 Diminuzioni su Aurilla mia 00:32
• Tommaso Marchetti:
• 10 Monica 02:19
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 11 Ite sospiri miei 02:39
• Tommaso Marchetti:
• 12 Girumetta 00:47
• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643):
• 13 Capricio sopra la Girolmeta 01:52
• Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (1600 - 1647):
• 14 Villan di Spagna 01:38
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 15 Toccata VI 02:50
• 16 Gagliarda X 01:56
• Tommaso Marchetti:
• 17 Romanesca 01:55
• 18 Clorida 01:35
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 19 Romanescha arpeggiata 01:23
• Marco Marazzoli (1602 - 1662):
• 20 No ch'io non piangerò 03:56
• Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710): Sonata X:
• 21 Sonata X: I. Allegro 01:41
• 22 Sonata X: II. Andante 02:37
• 23 Sonata X: III. Allegro 00:42
• Ferdinando Valdambrini:
• 24 Passacaglia 06:47
• Tommaso Marchetti:
• 25 Spagnoletta 03:43
• Ferdinando Valdambrini:
• 26 Mamma lo scorpiò 01:20
• Tommaso Marchetti:
• 27 Mal francese mi tormenta 01:31
• Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 1680):
• 28 Tarantella 01:15
• 29 Antidotum tarantulae 01:24
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 30 Girometta 01:25
• Total Runtime 56:36

Info for Roma '600

A journey through seventeenth-century Rome, the rough and magnificent city where Caravaggio and Stradella lived. Strict counterpoint and learned polyphony in the lute and keyboard pieces by Kapsberger, Pasquini and Frescobaldi mingle with light dances and popular songs for guitar. Improvisation is the feature linking both sound-worlds: the high culture of church chapels and noble palaces, and the lore of streets and taverns. A careful study of the original sources guided our choices as to instruments and interpretation. According to historically informed practice, the celebrated Antidotum Tarantulæ and further early specimens of tarantella, as written down by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, are played on bagpipes, drums and guitars.

While on their first album ‘Alfabeto Falso’ I Bassifondi refreshed the image of the Baroque guitar and its harmonic extravaganzas, with ‘Roma 600’ the ensemble brings the music of seventeenth century Rome back to life with inspired and imaginative improvisation. Soprano Emőke Barath and violinist Enrico Onofri are the distinguished guest artists who join I Bassifondi in this new adventure.

I Bassifondi
Gabriele Miracle, percussion
Stefano Todarello, lute, guitar
Simone Vallerotonda, theorbo, baroque guitar & direction

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