CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)
L’incoronazione di Poppea (1642)
Ouverture (versions de Naples et de Venise)
« Signor, deh non partire »
« Speranza tu mi vai »
« Come dolci signor »
« Sento un certo »
« Signor, signor oggi rinasco »
Settimo Libro de Madrigali (1619)
« Chiome d’oro »
GIOVANNI BATTISTA FONTANA (ca 1571 – ca 1630)
Sonata settima
FRANCESCO CAVALLI (1602-1676)
La Calisto (1651)
Ouverture
« Interpreta mal buona / L’uomo e una dolce »
« Ninfa bella, che mormora »
« Pazzi quei, ch’in Amore credono? »
« D’aver un consorte »
DARIO CASTELLO (1602-1631)
Secondo Libro di sonate concertate in stil moderno (1629)
Sonata quarta
FRANCESCA ASPROMONTE, soprano
FEDERICO FIORIO, contre-ténor
GILONE GAUBERT & BENJAMIN CHÉNIER, violons
EMMANUEL JACQUES, violoncelle
YULI BAYEUL, luth
LES TALENS LYRIQUES
CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET, clavecin, orgue et direction
PROGRAMME RÉALISÉ AVEC LE SOUTIEN DE L’INSTITUT DU CERVEAU
Born in Florence at the beginning of the seventeenth century, opera quickly won over Venetian audiences in the 1620s and 1630s. It moved beyond the confines of courtly festivities to become accessible to the wider public, who now paid for admission; the City of the Doges is indeed where opera truly flourished and came into its own as a modern art form. Monteverdi and Cavalli were its great architects: in their hands, the genre is built on bold and innovative libretti, portraying the human soul in all its complexity and at times its less flattering aspects. The most dramatic moments alternate with scenes of a more overtly comic nature. This programme pays tribute to these two composers, enriched by instrumental works by Fontana and Castello.
For this programme, I have brought together two Italian singers thoroughly versed in the distinctive style of recitar cantando. Generous and highly charismatic, they will move effortlessly between intense, passionate atmospheres and deliberately comic ones. Their similar vocal ranges intertwine to blur distinctions of genre – a hallmark of Italian Baroque aesthetics.
Christophe Rousset