I Musici della Serenissima

(ALESSANDRA COSSI – voice, simphonya, percussions; GIUSEPPE PAOLO CECERE – voice, ghironda, viuela, lyre, psaltery, zither; STEFANO CASACCIA – recorders, gamshorns, bagpipe, bombarda; FABIO ACCURSO – lute, tiorba, arcilute, ancient guitars; CLAUDIO GASPARONI – viella, viuola, viola da gamba, violone; LUCA FERRINI – virginal, spinetta, harpsichord, portable organ; NICOLETTA SANZIN – gothic harp, romanic, celtic, of the Renaissance and baroque harps).

 

In collaboration with the folk-dance and popular-dance company "Il Ballarino" from Florence

 

"Music from the age of Marco Polo" - ballades, mottets, dances and canzonas (5 players)

Musical travel through courts, castles, squares and taverns from the Middle Ages. Music by Landini, Zorzi, Canal, M.da Padova, N. da Perugia, Stefani, anonimous minstrels and troubadors.

 

"Musics from the age of Doges" canzonas, frottole, madrigals and dances (6 players)

Musical florilegiums between Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque at the age of the Serenissima. Music by G. dal Carretto, A. da Montona, F. da Laurana, T. Merula, B. Tromboncino, M. Cara, G. Mainerio, C. Merulo, A. Gabrieli, C. Negri, C. Monteverdi, Venetian anonimous from XV and XVI century.

 

"Musics and dances through courts and squares"dances, frottole, canzonas, madrigals, sonets and ricercari (6 players and 3 dancers)

Show concert with musics and dances from the Italian Renaissance. Musics by Tromboncino, Cara, Negri, Senese, Galilei, F.da Milano, Caprioli, Dalza, Spinacino Gussago, Mainerio, Patavino, Gastoldi

 

"In rime sparse il suono" sonesi, villanelle, strambotti and canzonas (6 players)

Musical florilegiums from XV e XVI century on poetry by Dante, Petrarca and Ariosto. Music by Galilei, Vecchi, Cara, Scoto, Negri, Tromboncino

 

"Venice and the Orient" moresche, turchesche, grechesche, mascherate, villanesche, barzellette and battaglie (6 players – 3/6 dancers)

Show concert with musics, songs and dances usually played in Venice in the XVI and XVII century, or better, meeting between East and West. Musics by Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, T.Merulo, Viadana, Senese, D. da Nola, Negri, I. de Vento, Puliti, Padovano, A.Veneziano, Mainerio

 

"The age of Monteverdi" arias, canzonas and sonatas (4 o 5 players)

Love affection and religious harmonies between the sacred and the profane of Italian Seicento. Musics by Monteverdi, G. and F. Caccini, Luzzaschi, Frescobaldi, Cavalli, Grandi, Strozzi, Cima, Castello, Fontana, Marini, Bassani, Legrenzi, Cesti.

 

"The big Venetian entertainments" music, theatre, poetry and commedia dell'arte (to agree on the organic)

Spectacles, celebrations, historical reconstructions of cultured and popular events in use in Venice between the XVII and the XVIII century. Subjects: "Carnival in Venice", mascherate, carnival songs and pieces on the commedia dell'arte – "Famous arias of castrato Farinelli" arias performed by the famous sopranist Angelo Manzotti – "Le canzoni da Batelo", Venetian popular music for the summers in laguna – "Teatro alla moda" Music theatre wtitten by B.Marcello with the contribute of Casanova, Goldoni and the erothic poet Giorgio Baffo – "The Operine Buffe of Venetian XVIII century", music by Vivaldi and Galuppi.

 

I Musici della Serenissima play on precious original instruments and with costumes of the period.

With the support of the Veneto Region