Barocco Napoletano
Songs and Dances in the Shade of Mount Vesuvio
In this programme, we invite you to the vortex of the city’s musical life in the Baroque times. You will be guided by a foursome of exquisite musicians: English virtuoso on historical harps, Sarah Louise Ridy, Belgian soprano Lore Binon and her two compatriots, Jowan Merckx on recorders and Sofie Vanden Eynde on theorbo.
You will be taken on tour of the crooked alleys filled with music by Falconieri, Da Nola or Trabaci, all from Naples, and their art of improvisation will come in useful especially as they perform the comical villanellas that are so closely linked with Napule, as the locals call their city.
The Musicians
Sarah Louise Ridy
The Programme
Anonymous
Madonna tu mi fai lo scorrucciato
Andrea Falconieri (1585/1586 – 1656)
O Bellisimi Capelli
Bella Fanciulla dal viso rosato
Filli Cara et Amata
Nudo arciero che si altero
Non piu d’amore, non piu d’ardore
Bella porta di rubini
Occhietti amati
Segui, segui dolente core
Giovanni Domenico da Nola (ca 1510–1592)
Fuggit’ Amore
Giovanni Giacomo de Antiquis (? – 1608)
Madonna, non so far tante parole
La carra feci porg´ogni speranza
Giovanni Maria Trabaci (ca 1575 – 1647)
Il Galluccio
Adrian Willaert (1490–1562)
Vecchie Letrose
Stefano Landi (1587–1639)
A che mi fu egli
Canta la Cicaletta
Jowan Merckx
L’Uelh del Vesent
La Vita ti Parla (tarantella)
Eigen Wijsheid/Saffrana
Marlene, l’Etang