Like Venice and Florence, the Spanish Habsburg duchy of Milan was a musical hub in 17th century Italy. Between two outbreaks of the plague, the canzon-motetti emerged as a genre of fascinating musical dialogues in which voices and instruments move from fiery contrasts to the unification of two bodies of sound. Cappella Mariana, with star sopranos Hana Blažíková and Barbora Kabátková, joins forces with cornetto wizard Bruce Dickey’s Breathtaking Collective. Together, they serve up a sumptuous selection of this little-known repertoire, interspersed with recently rediscovered madrigals by Francesco Rognoni and colourful works by his brother Giovanni Domenico, as well as by Agostino Soderini, Giovanni Paolo Cima and their contemporaries. A tribute to a forgotten chapter in the chronicles of the early Baroque.
Program
Music by F. Rognoni, G.D. Rognoni, A. Soderini, G.P. Cima, G. Gallo and others
Performers
Hana Blažíková, Barbora Kabátková, soprano | Vojtech Semerad, Tomáš Lajtkep, tenor | Martin Schicketanz, bass | Bruce Dickey, cornetto | Simen Van Mechelen, Joost Swinkels, trombone | Veronika Skuplik, violin | Mieneke van der Velden, viol | Matthias Müller, viol & violone | Jan Krejca, theorbo | Kris Verhelst, organ & harpsichord