High Beauty Ensemble (Switzerland) Sunday 4th September • Nove da Firenze
Sunday 4th September at 9.15 pm in the Cloister of the Ex-Leopoldine al Museum of the twentieth century (Piazza Santa Maria Novella 10; tickets 15 euros; couples 2 tickets 25 euros; reduced 8 euros;]; reservations https://hommearme.it/) for the sixth edition of the international festival “FloRemus.
Musical Renaissance in Florence», Organized by the L’Homme Armé association, theHigh Beauty Ensemble (Switzerland; Ann Allen: bombard; Hanna Geisel: shawm, bombard, bagpipe; Nathaniel Wood: shooting trumpet, trombone), presents Sad Plaisir. Music by Dufay and 15th century dances. The combination of shawm, bomb and trumpet was the standard instrumental ensemble throughout Europe in the 15th century, which can be considered the “classical period” ofHigh Chapel.
Such groups could be found in every court and in every city; they played polyphony and dance music for all kinds of occasions. In this concert the Alta Bellezza Ensemble shows its very personal vision of the sound world of the early fifteenth century. The works of Dufay, Binchois and their contemporaries, on the one hand a musical farewell to the Middle Ages, on the other revolutionary for the Renaissance polyphony, can be heard both in the typical combination of instruments, and played on other instruments such as bagpipes, as well. as on the then new types of bass brass such as the trombone.
The dance music comes from the Brussels manuscript Basse Danse, where the tenors and the choreographies of the dances are written in gold letters. The other parts of polyphonic music were arranged in the style of the 15th century, as was the practice for musicians who played wind instruments in those days.
The love for the wild sound of the Alta Capella combined with the intoxicating sensation have a perfectly tuned fifth led to the birth of theinternational ensemble Alta Bellezza. After in-depth technical studies of ancient wind instruments and ensemble music at the renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Alta Bellezza is bringing the musical formula of Alta Capella back to new splendor. Where possible, concert programs are drawn from the same original manuscripts and performed from memory. The ensemble has a busy concert schedule and has performed in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, England, Romania, Slovenia, Latvia and Finland. Their first CD, The high beauty: wind music of the 15th century Italian court was released by Arcana in 2021.
MONDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
Conversation, 6 pm Room “Sibilla Aleramo” of the Oblate Library, Via dell’Oriuolo 24: The garden as a work of art in Florence between the 15th and 16th centuries. From the hortus conclusus to the garden of delight and the birth of the myth of Florence, the city of flowerscurated by Mario Bencivenni
Concert à boire, 7.30 pm S. Salvi Museum, Via di San Salvi 16: Music at the court of Urbino (Josquin, Isaac) with Dulcedo Ardens (Martha Rook, vocals; Tommaso Tarsi, lute). Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino whose six hundredth anniversary of his birth falls this year, was a skilled leader and great patron, a pivotal figure and a well-known face throughout the Renaissance. His commitment to promoting the arts made the Duchy of Urbino a nerve center of culture, where architects, painters and sculptors met and, as Baldassare Castiglione recalls in his well-known book “Il Cortegiano”, it is impossible to ignore “with how much love the art was continued. of the music in that magnificent Court “.
“FloRemus. Musical Renaissance in Florence»Takes place in Renaissance places of the city from Tuesday 30 August to Sunday 11 September 2022: it is the first festival entirely dedicated to music from the late fourteenth to the sixteenth century located in the cradle of the Renaissance and can boast, unique in Tuscany, the important recognition of being welcomed in the REMA – Réseau Européen De Musique Ancienne network. Also this year the event is divided into Evening concerts (9.15 pm), Concerts à boire (which ends in aperitif-dinner time), Conversations a free admission with the cut of the high disclosure (hours 18) it’s a Laboratory free.
Subsequent events
Tuesday 6 September
Conversation, 6 pm Room “Sibilla Aleramo” of the Oblate Library, Via dell’Oriuolo 24: From the manuscript to the printed parts and … vice versa. Brief introduction to Jacob Obrecht’s Missa “Maria Zart”edited by Peter de Laurentiis
Evening concert, 9.15 pm Auditorium of S. Apollonia, Via San Gallo 25
Pratensis Chapel (Holland)directed by Stratton Bull, in Missa “Maria Zart”. A monument of Renaissance sacred music; Stratton Bull, Andrew Hallock, Tim Braithwaite: superius; Lior Leibovici, Korneel Van Neste: altus; Peter de Laurentiis, Peter De Moor: tenor; Marc Busnel, Grantley McDonald: bass. For this performance, Cappella Pratensis evokes the liturgical form of a Mass, presenting the monumental Missa Maria zart (almost an hour of music) in the context of chants for a Marian feast, from the facsimile of a manuscript known as “Codex Smijers”, preserved in the hometown of the Pratensis Chapel, ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands).
Wednesday 7 September
Concert à boire, 7.30 pm Ottone Rosai Auditorium, Via dell’Arcovata 4/6
Grace and beauty. A “wonderful and harmonious concento” by Ferdinando de ‘Medici. Music by Biagio Pesciolini (1535 – 1611) with Tuscae voces, director Elia Orlando; Elisa Pasquini I sing; Benedetta Gaggioli Sixth; Luca Mantovani Tall; Andrea Bochicchio Tenor; Marco Pagani and Augusto Biagini Fifth; Tommaso Barni and Gabriele Orlando Bass; Giacomo Taselli Narrator
Thursday 8th September
Conversation, 6 pm: Room “Sibilla Aleramo” of the Oblate Library, Via dell’Oriuolo 24: Ars nova: a meteor to the origins of European musiccurated by Michele Pasotti
Evening concert, 9.15 pm S. Marco Museum, P.za San Marco 3
La Fonte musica (Italy), director Michele Pasotti in Enigma Fortuna. Sacred and secular music by Antonio Zacara from Teramo, a master of Italian Humanism. Alena Dantcheva, Francesca Cassinari: sopranos; Gianluca Ferrarini, Massimo Altieri: tenors; Efix Puleo, Teodoro Baù: vielle da gamba; Federica Bianchi: harpsichord; Michele Pasotti: lute and conducting. Antonio Zachara da Teramo (ca. 1360/1416?) Is, with Johannes Ciconia and Matteo from Perugia, one of the eminent (and brilliant) musicians of the late Italian Ars Nova, important for the music that came later.
Friday 9 September
Conversation, 18.00
Auditorium of the CR Florence Foundation, Via F. Portinari 5
Music in 16th century Milanedited by Giuditta Comerci
Concert à boire, 7.30 pm
Murate District, P.za delle Murate
Music in the courts of princes (C. Malvezzi, G. Caccini, V. Archilei) with Baroque lamp. Emma Alessi Innocenti Soprano; Andrea Benucci Theorbo and lute; Iris Faceto Viola da gamba; Giacomo Benedetti Harpsichord
Saturday 10th September
Concert à boire, 7.30 pm
Church of S. Maria a Peretola, Piazza G. Garibaldi 12
The sacred splendor in the Sforza castle. Milan and the polyphony of Weerbeke and Gaffurio between court and cathedral. Music by Weerbeke, Isaac, Gaffurio with Harmonia cordis, director Vladimiro Vagnetti; Giuditta Comerci, Nancy Garcia Siurob, Nicoletta Ranieri Sopranos; Antonietta Carta, Simona Di Martino, Isabella Di Pietro, Fabrizio Vaccari Contracts; Giovanni Tarchi, Manlio Tassella Tenors; Roberto Battista, Alberto Cavalli Bass; Stefano Bellucci, Nicolas Vietti Trombones; Cesare Pierozzi Bombard.
Sunday 11th September
Evening concert, 9.15 pm Auditorium of S. Apollonia, Via San Gallo 25
L’Homme Armé (Italy), director Fabio Lombardo in Salva nos… Imaginary liturgy of the turn of the century between Florence and Milan. Music by Isaac, favorite musician of Lorenzo de ‘Medici and Weerbeke, trusted musician of Galeazzo Maria Sforza. Elena Bertuzzi, Marta Fumagalli, Matteo Pigato: superius; Massimo Altieri, Paolo Borgonovo: altus; Paolo Fanciullacci, Riccardo Pisani: tenor; Davide Benetti, Gabriele Lombardi: bass.
Tickets:
Evening concerts: in concert venues one hour before the show. Full € 15, ticket for two people together € 25, single reduced € 8
Concerts à boire of 3, 5, 7 and 9 September: € 5; Bora concert 10: free admission
Coversations and laboratory: Free admission
The FloReMus Festival is part of the Florentine Summer of the Municipality of Florence
With the support of:
Ministry of Culture, Tuscany Region, CR Firenze Foundation
In collaboration with:
Regional Directorate of Museums of Tuscany, MUSE, Museo Novecento, Murate Art District, Florentine Municipal Libraries, La Chute Association,
A.Gi.Mus. Florence.