Cantar Lontano / Marco Mencoboni
Ultimi miei sospiri
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Recorded live at the Domkerk Utrecht, 1 September 2022
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About this concert
Festival favourite Cantar Lontano makes the Dom Cathedral reverberate with expressive, richly decorated Renaissance polyphony. Marco Mencoboni and his ensemble present a programme with counterpoint from the circles of Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa. With a mass by Rocco Rodio and motets by composers such as Scipione Stella, Scipione Dentice and Carlo Gesualdo himself, they paint a picture of aristocrats who devoted themselves to the most refined art: music. Ornamentation and improvisation play an essential role in this.
Programme
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Diego Ortiz
Recercata segunda sopra ‘O felici occhi miei’
From: Trattado de glosas (Rome, 1553)1510-1570 -
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa
O vos omnes a 5 voci
From: Sacrae cantiones (1603)1566-1613 -
Jean de Macque
Veni creator spiritus a 6 voci *
O mundi lumina a 6 voci *
From: Fatiche spirituali a sei voci, libro primo (Venice, 1610)1548-1614 -
Scipione Stella
Ad te dominus levavi a 5 voci *
Exaudi Domine a 5 voci *
Illumina facies tuam a 5 voci *
From: Motectorum quinque vocibus (Ferrara, 1615)1558-1622 -
Giovanni Maria Trabaci
Canzon francesa prima a 4 voci
From: Ricercate, canzone francese, capricci libro primo (Napels, 1603)ca. 1575-1647 -
Pomponio Nenna
Responsorium: O vos omnes a 4 voci
From: Sacrae Hebdomadae Responsoria (1622)1556-1608 -
Scipione Dentice
Exaudii Deus orazionem meam *
From: Motectorum quinque vocibus, liber primus (Rome, 1594)1550-1633 -
Scipione Stella
Stabat Mater dolorosa, Planctus Beatae Mariae
O vos omnes
From: Hymnorum ecclesiasticorum liber primus (Napels, 1610)1558-1622 -
Giovanni Maria Trabaci
Vergine più del Sol a 4 voci *
From: Nuove laudi ariose della Beata Vergine (Rome, 1600) -
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa
O crux benedicta
Ave regina coelorum
From: Sacrae cantiones (1603)
Responsorium: O Vos omnes
From: Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia (1611) -
* First modern performance
Thanks to the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds for making available the Monteverdi organ, built in 2020 by Klop after an idea and initiative by Krijn Koetsveld.
Musicians
- Sonia Tedla, Francesca Cassinari soprano
- Marta Fumagalli mezzo-soprano
- Andres Montilla Acuero alto
- Alberto Allegrezza, Riccardo Pisani tenor
- Gabriele Lombardi bass
- David Brutti cornetto
- Valerio Mazzucconi trombone
- Francesca Chiocci viola da gamba
- Simone Vallerotonda theorbo
- Nicola Lamon organ
- Marco Mencoboni harpsichord and musical direction
About the performers
Cantar Lontano was founded by harpsichordist Marco Mencoboni. The ensemble made its debut at the Early Music Festival in 2007 with Diego Ortiz’ Vespers, and has since been a welcome guest in Utrecht. Cantar Lontano pays special attention to using the space in which the ensemble is performing, which means that each concert turns out subtly different. Mencoboni and his Cantar Lontano are artist in residence at the 2019 festival.
Marco Mencoboni is a harpsichordist, organist and musicologist. He performs as a soloist and as a continuo player with various Italian ensembles. Together with Cantar Lontano, the ensemble he founded in 2007, he strives to rescue lesser-known Renaissance composers from obscurity. He first appeared at the Utrecht Early Music Festival in 2007, with vespers by Diego Ortiz, and is now artist in residence during the 2019 edition.