Fermate il Passo: Tracing the Origins of Opera VivaBiancaLuna Biffi

• 1 Voi che passate qui, fermate il passo (Developed and Arranged by VivaBiancaLuna Biffi) 01:45
• 2 O tempo, o ciel volubil che fuggendo 01:07
• 3 Se a mi che t’amo tanto doni morte 03:24
• 4 S’io sedo all’ombra Amor giù pone’l strale 02:17
• 5 Se m’è grato il tuo tornare 01:57
• 6 Se per colpa del vostro altiero sdegno (Developed and Arranged by VivaBiancaLuna Biffi) 01:21
• 7 Nasce l’aspro mio tormento 01:16
• 8 Variations on the Theme 'Staralla ben cussì?' 02:42
• 9 Haimé, perché m’hai privo 02:51
• 10 Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace (Developed and Arranged by VivaBiancaLuna Biffi) 02:54
• 11 Non val acqua al mio gran foco 06:00
• 12 Dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide tantum (Developed and Arranged by VivaBiancaLuna Biffi) 00:45
• 13 Scopri, lingua, el mio martire 04:25
• 14 Variations on the Theme 'La Folia' (From the Popular Chorus of the Frottola 'Una leggiadra Ninfa' [A Fair Nymph]) 02:08
• 15 Io spero, e lo sperar cresce il tormento (Developed by Gloria Moretti, Arranged by VivaBiancaLuna Biffi) 01:02
• 16 Per servirte perdo i passi 03:31
• 17 Se de fede vengo a meno 02:48
• 18 Nasce la speme mia da una dolce riso 02:30
• 19 O numquam pro re satis indignande Cupido (Developed by Gloria Moretti, Arranged by VivaBiancaLuna Biffi) 01:20
• 20 Deh non più, deh non più mo’ 02:47
• 21 Variations on the Theme 'Son più matti a questo mondo' 02:36
• 22 Fammi quanto dispetto far mi sai (Developed and Arranged by VivaBiancaLuna Biffi) 00:57
• 23 Nasce la speme mia da un dolce riso 02:54
• 24 Ostinato vo’ seguire 02:49
• 25 Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas 00:45
• 26 Io non compro più speranza 01:59
• 27 Voi che passate qui, firmate il passo 03:59
• Total Runtime 01:04:49

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This unique and, in some respects, revolutionary programme offers a new approach to the Early Italian Renaissance frottola repertoire. First of all, the solo performance with voice and viola d’arco, that cantare alla viola (‘singing to the viol’) which Baldassare Castiglione, in his famous Book of the Courtier (1527), indicated as the ‘more welcome’ way of performing a sung text.

Secondly, the frottole have been selected and put in order forming a miniature opera with a Prologue, three acts, and Epilogue, shedding new light on the origins of opera. A charismatic figure, VivaBiancaLuna Biffi is engaged in an intense solo activity and is regular partner of some of the leading Early Music performers such as Jordi Savall, Pierre Hamon and Brigitte Lesne.

VivaBiancaLuna Biffi, Viola d’arco

Recorded at the Paradyż Abbey, Gościkowo (Poland), 16-20 September 2013
Artistic direction, recording, editing and mastering by Alban Moraud

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