CANTO PRIMO:
Sfogava con le stelle
Kapsperger
Vaga su spina ascosa
Tu ch’hai le penne
CANTO SECONDO:
Movetevi a pieta
Passacaglia
Alme luci beate
Amor ch’attendi
CANTO TERZO:
Dovro dunque
Canario
Vedro il mio sol
Al fonte al prato
CANTO QVARTO:
Ch’io non t’ami, cor mio
Sferraina and improvisation upon the Collascione
Tutto il di piango
16 Non ha il ciel
CANTO QVINTO:
Torna deh torna
Capona
Dalla porta d’oriente
CANTO ULTIMO:
Toccata Arpeggiata

In Le Nuove Musiche, Furio Zanasi’s richly expressive voice and Xavier Díaz-Latorre’s masterful theorbo playing bring new depth to the groundbreaking music of Giulio Caccini and Heinrich Kapsberger. Caccini’s radical aesthetic placing the intelligibility of the text at the center, allowing melody to carry expressive meaning, and reducing the accompaniment to a discreet yet powerful basso continuo emerges here with remarkable clarity. Zanasi and Díaz-Latorre reveal how innovative Caccini’s nobile sprezzatura di canto truly was: a free, speech-like, rhetorically shaped way of singing in which the emotional power of the text directly guides the musical gesture. In their hands, poetry and melody intertwine as a single expressive line, exactly as Caccini and the Florentine Camerata envisioned. Each track draws the listener into a vivid sonic world where the timeless beauty and bold innovation of the early Baroque come alive, offering a fresh and deeply felt perspective on a pivotal moment in music history an compelling listening experience for all lovers of early music.

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Recording Église Saint-Rémi de Franc-Waret (Belgium), 20–24 November 2024