Ensemble La Ninfea - Sono Amante Kantaten & Kammermusik - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Francesco Balilla Pratella, one of the most important and eclectic figures of the early-twentieth- century cultural scene in Italy, molded his life to the constant pursuit of spiritual ascension and the quest for the essence of man. For him, these conditions were indispensable for achieving the Inchhumanized re-creation of the worldInch, the primary, essential goal of an artist-creator InchCreation, in an absolute sense, is not a human faculty; we cannot add or remove anything in the universe. But we can humanly re-create the universe, that is, translate it and re-express it with images and values that are essentially human. This is what art is, and this is what life is a human re-creation of the world in it's terms and values, and only for man a humanization of the world.Inch So he re-created the world, his world, untiringly dividing himself between musical composition, teaching, the passionate study of folk traditions, and the writing of hundreds and hundreds of theoretic, critical, musical-aesthetic and philosophic texts. The Pratella Ensemble is the interpreter of this production that collects a varied anthology of the composer's chamber production lieder, instrumental and choral pages that reflect the work and life of a highly original author, protagonist of a historical and cultural moment - that of the futurism - of great experimentation and artistic travail.

Winter - from First Frost to Carnival FestivityA sparkling musical panorama of winter - harking back to the legendary Great Frost of 1708/09. From the beginning of the season over Christmas to a festive carnival songs, opera scenes, instrumental as well as traditional pieces from France, Germany, and Great Britain.Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Michael Praetorius, William Byrd, among others.

The Aquila Altera ensemble keeps in mind the acquisitions of the most reliable musicological studies that claim that the gap between us and early music is so unbridgeable as to make it impossible to take into consideration any musical performance removing it from it's own historical context and time; but this does not prevent the ensemble from developing a particular musical approach whereby music from the learned, therefore written, tradition, is compared with music that owes it's existence to oral transmission. This research sets the two repertoires side by side, endeavoring to detect a possible relationship between them, not only in their musical aspects, but also in their texts. The repertoire that is presented here, which is entirely Italian, juxtaposes pieces drawn from manuscripts or printed collections from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries with pieces (and performance practices) that stem from an oral tradition and from the use of musical instruments of the Italian tradition, in addition to the more common ones. These instruments have been reconstructed on the basis of the historical sources, and one of the most widespread and musically important is the bagpipe. Album Tracks 1. LI Saracin' Adorano Lo Sole 2. Saltarello 3. Dolce Lo Mio Drudo 4. Sonata Al Passo Delle Capre, Tradizionale 5. E Vantènde Segnor Mio 6. Saltarello 7. Madonna Santa Maria 8. Saltarello 9. Dolce Vergine Maria 10. Non Posso Far Bucato Che Non Piova 11. Tradizionale 12. O Vergin Santa 13. O Maria Diana Stella 14. LI Saracin' Adorano Lo Sole