Rolf Lislevand & Concerto Stella Matutina – Nuove Invenzioni (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Rolf Lislevand & Concerto Stella Matutina – Nuove Invenzioni (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:05 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Rolf Lislevand and Concerto Stella Matutina first worked on a project in 2011, which would result in a prosperous collaboration in concert series and now, the release of their first CD together. The album is a mix of baroque and jazz as well as improvised passages with music arranged for the 12 people orchestra by Andrea Falconieri, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and Vincenzo Albrici. Bringing the elements of baroque and jazz together and developing a new kind of music by optimizing the instruments of Early Music and giving each instrument section its moment on the recording was the goal of this release. With this intimate and wel lmixed recording, the musicians did not aim to create crossover music or fit into any other genre but rather generate a sound that is a symbiosis of different musical elements.

Far from trying to reproduce the sound atmospheres that could have existed (or not…) three centuries ago, the Concerto Stella Matutina ensemble and lutenist Rolf Lislevand have chosen to make use of the thousands of possibilities offered by a recording studio, mixing and microphones to build a set of unique sounds, probably non reproducible, but whose beauty precisely goes through the rebalancing of the various instruments. Incidentally, they don’t hesitate to painstakingly “arrange” some partitions from the Renaissance, like for example this Spagna from Francesco di Milano, revised and jazzified by Tomasz Stańko—and this with ancient instruments for the most part, a singular blend of genres and time periods. You can like or not these few Baroque/Renaissance/jazz blends, but the result is no less intriguing, and extraordinarily well-performed. But then in these ancient time, was it not the custom to systematically bring back to fashion all the musical works from bygone eras? Just see in this principle an extreme prolongation of the Baroque custom…

Tracklist:
1-01. Rolf Lislevand, Concerto Stella Matutina – Intrada (04:13)
1-02. Rolf Lislevand, Concerto Stella Matutina – Eternal Source of Light Divine, HWV 74 (05:53)
1-03. Rolf Lislevand, Concerto Stella Matutina – Pass’e mezzo e passacalli (06:42)
1-04. Rolf Lislevand, Concerto Stella Matutina – Zweitett (04:27)
1-05. Rolf Lislevand, Concerto Stella Matutina – Tasteggiata detta la Feretti (04:40)
1-06. Rolf Lislevand, Concerto Stella Matutina – La Spagna / Suspended Variations (08:28)
1-07. Rolf Lislevand, Concerto Stella Matutina – Aria di Passacaglia (07:02)
1-08. Rolf Lislevand, Concerto Stella Matutina – Por que llorax blanca niña (07:08)
1-09. Rolf Lislevand, Concerto Stella Matutina – Ciaccona (06:27)

Personnel:
Rolf Lislevand, lute
Concerto Stella Matutina

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