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From the beginning, her concert
activities have featured the repertoires for voice and lute (singing while
accompanying herself on the instrument), as well as the solo repertoire for
lute and theorbo and basso continuo.
As a soloist, she has
participated in numerous festivals in
Europe and
She has provided and
played the music for various theatrical productions and has appeared as a lutenist
on television programs for RAI 2, Channel 4, and others.
She has collaborated
with the orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Vivaldi
ensemble of the Solisti Veneti,
and with various choirs and chamber orchestras.
She has recorded for the
labels Dynamic, Stradivarius, Mondo Musica and Nuova Era,
with the ensembles Sans souci, Cappella Palatina, Accademia Farnese and the chamber orchestra Offerta Musicale of
For over a decade she has
performed in concert and on disc (for the label Tactus)
as theorbist with the ensemble Cappella Artemisia,
participating in numerous European festivals (the Festival Monteverdi of Cremona, in Bern, for the Concerti del Quirinale
in Rome, in Bonn, at the Segni Barocchi in Foligno, for the festival Frauen in der Musik
in Herne, in Lugano, and elsewhere).
She has also made two solo
recordings (on Tactus) with music by two important
17th-century Italian lute composers:
Alessandro Piccinini and Pietro
Paolo Melli.
In
She is the founder and
director of the ensemble Scintille di musica with whom she has recorded a CD for the Futuro antico
series on EMI : Mantova, la musica alla corte dei
Gonzaga, featuring the voice of Angelo Branduardi. Since
2007 three more cd went out of the same series, with
She has taught lute at the
conservatories of
SOLO PROGRAMMES
Music by Spinacino,
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 recitals
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:
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
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 programs:
. Musica a Venezia tra Rinascimento e
Barocco
. La musica nella Roma dei Papi.
Solo recordings:
- Domenico Maria e Pietro Paolo Melli, Musiche a voce sola e intavolature di liuto e tiorba,
-
Alessandro Piccinini, Intavolature di Liuto e Chitarrone, Libro II, 1639 e Modena ms,
Conductor/lutenist:
-
Futuro Antico III, Mantova: la musica alla corte dei Gonzaga,
Angelo Branduardi voice, ensemble Scintille di musica,
With ensembles:
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A. Vivaldi, Flute concertos op.10, Marzio Conti, L’Offerta
musicale di Venezia, Nuova Era
7192, 1994.
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Canti nel chiostro, Musica dei
monasteri bolognesi del’600, Cappella Artemisia, Tactus,
TC600001,
1994.
- G.Ph.
Telemann, Der Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst vol I, Ensemble
Barocco Padovano Sans
Souci, Dynamic, CDS118, 1994.
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L.da Viadana, Canzonette a tre voci, Cappella Palatina,
Stradivarius, STR33387, 1994.
-
F. Couperin, Les Apotheoses – Les Nations, Accademia
Farnese, Mondo Musica, MM96016,
1996, (3 CD).
-
C.M. Cozzolani, Vespri Natalizi, Cappella
Artemisia, Tactus, TC600301, 1997.
-
Rosa Mistica, musica di
compositrici lombarde del Seicento, Cappella
Artemisia, Tactus,
600003,
1999 (recommended by Fondazione Cini discographic prize, 1999).
Preface to:
January 2007: A tutor for the Theorbo ,
published by Ut Orpheus editions www.utorpheus.com.
This is the first practical method dedicate to this instrument.
G. Kapsberger, A. Piccinini, G. Viviani, Intavolature
di chitarrone, mss Modena, Firenze, SPES, 1999.
Preface to:
B. Castaldi, Capricci a due strumenti cioè tiorba e tiorbino, Modena 1622, Firenze, SPES, 2002.
ARTICLES:
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Una prima documentazione sui Melli, musicisti di Reggio Emilia, Il flauto dolce: Rivista
per
lo studio e la pratica della musica
antica, X-XI, 1984, p. 35-39.
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Pietro
Paolo Melli, Musician of Reggio Emilia, Journal of
the Lute Society of America, XVIII-XVIII, 1984-5,p. 42-49.
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Musicisti reggiani del Seicento, Alla corte
dell’imperatore Mattia, Reggio Storia, VIII-1, 1985.
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Musicisti reggiani del Seicento, Benedetto Ferrari: pioniere degli impresari teatrali e librettista,
Reggio Storia, X-2, 1987.
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Benedetto della tiorba, Bollettino della
Società Italiana del Liuto, n° 2, oct.
1991.
CD BOOKLETS NOTES:
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Domenico Maria e Pietro Paolo Melli, Musiche a voce sola e intavolature di liuto e
tiorba,
Tactus,
TC600002, 1996.
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Alessandro Piccinini,
Intavolature di liuto e chitarrone, Tactus TC561602,
2000.
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Futuro Antico III, Mantova: la musica alla
corte dei Gonzaga, EMI classic,
2002.
…a quasi-improvisatory
style that provides an exellent showcase for Torelli’s playing. She combines a very sure and strong
technique with intelligence in conveying the structure of each piece, and great
sensitivity in shaping each phrase, allowing the instrument space to
breathe….the sound quality is extremely clear throughout, the intricacies of
the contapuntal lines never blurred. The rich, dark
tones of the chitarrone are particularly effective…Torelli’s performances display the same combination of
technical mastery and improvised exploration and embellishment.
The result is
an hour of intense and charming performances that draw the listener into the
intimate sound-world of the early Baroque lute and chitarrone.
…Si apprezza il calore infuso in certi momenti,
la naturalezza di molti accenti di passione o di dolore che rende
l’interpretazione assai viva e sentita …risultando assai precisa, pulita e
dolcemente espressiva. Novello menestrello, la figura totalizzante della
Torelli dona una piacevole e invitante atmosfera artigianale al lavoro, una
semplicità che sembra celare una sincerità tutta personale.
Marco Iannelli
in Musica
…l’ensemble Scintille di Musica, magistralmente
diretto da
Ezio Guaitamacchi
in Jam-Viaggio
nella musica
Branduardi e
Angelo Foletto in Suonare news
Branduardi e
Angelo Foletto in Suonare news
Durante il concerto si sono ascoltati anche Come away di Dowland e Sì dolce è
il tormento di Monteverdi, che hanno messo in
luce le pregevoli qualità della liutista Torelli. Caloroso il successo di
pubblico per questa serata che ha aperto all’insegna della raffinatezza il
carnevale veneziano.
Mario Merigo in Il Gazzettino, recensione al concerto del 10-2-2007
al Teatro Malibran di Venezia.
…Testi e musiche tardo
rinascimentali che la trascrizione e interpretazione del brillante
gruppo di
Angelo Foletto in Suonare news, recensione al cd Venezia e il Carnevale, 2007
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