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FERMATE IL PASSO (STAY YOUR STEPS)
! Tracing the Origins of Opera ! – VivaBiancaLuna Biffi – canto e viola d’arco
1 CD Total time 64'48
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This unique and, in some respects, revolutionary programme offers a new a p p r o a c h t o t h e E a r l y I t a l i a n Renaissance fro=ola 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.
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Secondly, the fro=ole 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 Brigi=e Lesne.
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RELEASE JUNE 2014 !
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Fermate il Passo (Stay your Steps) Tracing the Origins of Opera
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Prologue Tempus fugit — Where the theme is the fleeting nature of time, and human mortality 1. Voi che passate qui, fermate il passo 1’45 2. Paolo Sco=i: O tempo, o ciel volubil che fuggendo 1’07
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Act I Love and the lover’s gaze: Sunset 3. Anonymous: Se a mi che t’amo tanto doni morte 3’24 4. Marche=o Cara: S’io sedo all’ombra Amor giù pone’l strale 2’17 5. Philippus de Luprano: Se m’è grato il tuo tornare 1’57 6. Se per colpa del vostro altiero sdegno 1’21 7. Francesco Varoter: Nasce l’aspro mio tormento 1’16 8. Variations on the theme by Giamba=ista Zezzo Staralla ben cussì? 2’42 9. Anonimo: Haimé, perché m’hai privo 2’51
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Act II Love and scorn: Night 10. Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace 2’54 11. Bartolomeo Tromboncino: Non val acqua al mio gran foco 6’00 12. Dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide tantum 0’45 13. Anonymous: Scopri, lingua, el mio martire 4’25 14. Variations of the theme La Folia 2’08 15. Io spero, e lo sperar cresce il tormento 1’02 16. Nicolò Broco: Per servirte perdo i passi 3’31 17. Marche=o Cara: Se de fede vengo a meno 2’48
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Dreamlike Interlude 18. Marche=o Cara: Nasce la speme mia da una dolce riso 2’29
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Act III The surrender to love: Dawn 19. O numquam pro re satis indignande Cupido 1’20 20. Marche=o Cara: Deh non più, deh non più mo’ 2’47 21. Variations on the theme by Antonio Stingari Son più ma=i a questo mondo 2’36 22. Fammi quanto dispe=o far mi sai 0’56 23. Marche=o Cara: Nasce la speme mia da un dolce riso 2’54 24. Bartolomeo Tromboncino: Ostinato vo’ seguire 2’49
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Epilogue Carpe diem — In which the theme is vain hope 25. Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas 0’45 26. Marche=o Cara: Io non compro più speranza 1’59 27. Francesco Varoter: Voi che passate qui, firmate il passo 4’00
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