CONCERTS

Solo programmes  

Fantasias, songs and dances of the European Renaissance

Music by Spinacino, Milan, Newsidler, Attaingnant, Le Roy, Narvaez, Bakfark, Dowland, Cutting, Vallet.

Bach and Weiss

Sonatas and suites.

Early Italian Baroque

Music by Piccinini, Kapsberger, Melli, Garsi, Falconieri.

English music of the Elizabethan Age

Music by Dowland, Cutting, Ferrabosco, Pilkington, Robinson.

The golden rose

French lute music by Gaultier e Mouton

Melancholy and joy

16th century Italian music for voice and lute
Music by Cara, Tromboncino, Capirola, Willaert, Francesco da Milano, Borrono, Gorzanis, Molinaro.

Arpeggiata

Theorbo music by Kapsberger, Piccinini, De Visée.


REPERTOIRE

Renaissance lute:
Fantasies, ricercari, dances and madrigals by 16th century European composers.

Voice and lute:
Renaissance madrigals, villanelle, airs, songs and villancicos by Italian, French, English and Spanish composers.

D-minor lute:
baroque suites and sonatas by French and German composers.

Theorbo:
17th century preludes, toccatas, dances and ostinato variations by Italian and French composers.

Archlute:
Baroque toccatas, capricci and dances by Italian composers.

Baroque guitar:
sonatas by 17th century Italian authors

G-lute and d-minor lute:
contemporary music, lute transcriptions from Bach and Vivaldi.



DUO AND TRIO CONCERTS

Duo recital with:

Stefano Vezzani, bombarda, recorder

Concert program:
European Renaissance music, also as concert-lecture for schools.

Andrea Aldini, flute

Concert programs:
Settecento veneziano, music by Vivaldi, Albinoni, Marcello
Settecento francese, music by Philidor, De Visée, Blavet.

Trio concerts with:
Monica Piccinini, soprano
Paxti Montero, viola da gamba

Concert programs:
Il Seicento inglese, music by Dowland, Hume, Purcell
Dolcissimo sospiro, music by Caccini, Frescobaldi, Ferrari.

 

ENSEMBLE

Concerts with the ensemble Scintille di Musica:

Francesca Torelli direction, lute, theorbo, baroque guitar, voice
Rossella Croce, baroque violin
Luigi Lupo, recorder and traversa
Stefano Vezzani, bombarda,  recorder
Marco Ferrari, bombarda,  recorder
Mauro Morini,  trombone
Cristiano Contadin, viola da gamba
Luisa Baldassari,  spinetta, harpsichord
Gabriele Miracle salterio, percussions
Paolo Simonazzi, ghironda.

L’ensemble “SCINTILLE DI MUSICA” was founded in 2001by Francesca Torelli and is interested in the renaissance and baroque music  interpretation, particularly Italian.  In 2002  has recorded the  cd “Mantova: la musica alla corte dei Gonzaga” for EMI with the voice of Angelo Branduardi.  The members of the ensemble play with historical instruments and techniques.
Scintille di musica is referred to the title of an important  Sixteen century music treatise.
All the members in Scintille have an intense concert activitiy.
The ensemble has a formation wich can vary from 3 to 12 members, depending from the program.
Last years Scintille di Musica has recorded three more cd with music by Sixteen and Seventeen venetian and roman composers, wich obtained great public favour.

Concert with Angelo Branduardi, Mantua.

Concert programs:
Musica a Venezia tra Rinascimento e Barocco
La musica nella Roma dei Papi.

Ensemble Scintille di Musica, Venice.

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