Roma '600 I Bassifondi & Simone Vallerotonda

• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580 - 1651):
• 1Arpeggio00:48
• Enrico Onofri (b. 1967), I Bassifondi, Simone Vallerotonda (b. 1983):
• 2Foscarini's Groove02:46
• Arcangelo Lori (1611 - 1679):
• 3Toccata dell'Arcangelo01:44
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 4Scherzate, gioite, godete pastori00:53
• 5Sordellina00:56
• Anonymous:
• 6Ciachone02:19
• Tommaso Marchetti (1603 - 1668):
• 7Aurilla mia00:40
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 8Aurilla mia00:43
• Simone Vallerotonda:
• 9Diminuzioni su Aurilla mia00:32
• Tommaso Marchetti:
• 10Monica02:19
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 11Ite sospiri miei02:39
• Tommaso Marchetti:
• 12Girumetta00:47
• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643):
• 13Capricio sopra la Girolmeta01:52
• Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (1600 - 1647):
• 14Villan di Spagna01:38
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 15Toccata VI02:50
• 16Gagliarda X01:56
• Tommaso Marchetti:
• 17Romanesca01:55
• 18Clorida01:35
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 19Romanescha arpeggiata01:23
• Marco Marazzoli (1602 - 1662):
• 20No ch'io non piangerò03:56
• Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710): Sonata X:
• 21Sonata X: I. Allegro01:41
• 22Sonata X: II. Andante02:37
• 23Sonata X: III. Allegro00:42
• Ferdinando Valdambrini:
• 24Passacaglia06:47
• Tommaso Marchetti:
• 25Spagnoletta03:43
• Ferdinando Valdambrini:
• 26Mamma lo scorpiò01:20
• Tommaso Marchetti:
• 27Mal francese mi tormenta01:31
• Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 1680):
• 28Tarantella01:15
• 29Antidotum tarantulae01:24
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger:
• 30Girometta01:25
• Total Runtime56:36

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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