2017 PRODUCTIONS
❧ Hell
Abandon all hope you who enter here
❧ Heinrich Isaac, Metamorphosis
For the 500th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Isaac
❧ Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
(Midway upon the journey of our life)
2016 PRODUCTIONS
❧ A la moresca
Renaissance moresches and masquerades
❧ D'amour et de folie (Love and folly)
The art of Lamento, Passions set to music
❧ Cyprien de Rore: Dar l'anima alle parole
(Cipriano de Rore: To make words live)
For the 500th anniversary of the birth of Cipriano de Rore
❧ Cipriano de Rore: Madrigals and Motets
For the 500th anniversary of the birth of Cipriano de Rore
THE 16th CENTURY
THE RENAISSANCE AND HUMANIST MOVEMENT
❧ Shall we dance?
(Staged Concert)
Ancient Rome revisited by the Renaissance Humanists
Magic "mesurée à l'antique: new modes in 17th century music
Sybils and Prophets: oracular songs of revelation
❧ Roland de Lassus, Jacques de Wert
Dare l'anima alle parole (To make words live)The invention of the Seconda
Prattica
Renaissance neapolitan love songs
❧ Saturn and Polyphony
Genius and Melancholy
The legend of Orlando set to the music of Jachet de Berchem
(Staged Concert)
Palestrina, Nanino, Soriano: the art of polyphony in the Sistina Chapel
THE 17th CENTURY AND THE INVENTION
OF BAROQUE
❧ The silver swan
The queen, the swan and the malcontent
(staged concert)
❧ The two souls of Salomon
Jewish polyphony at the court of Gonzagas
❧ Amorosi Veleni (Love Poisons)
Gesualdo da Venosa, Pomponio Nenna: chromatic mirabilia
Melancholy and StIle Fantastico
An elogy of the serenade: Lassus, Strozzi, Stradella
THE 15th CENTURY AND
THE MIDDLE AGES AUTUMN
❧ Il Cantar moderno
Naples, Venice: Canzoni, Strambotti and Ballate
❧ O Vergin santa non m'abbandonare
The religious poems of Leonardo Giustiniani
❧ El Cancionero de la Catedral de Segovia
The Segovia Cathedral songbook
❧ Johannes Prioris
The golden age of polyphony