Marco Beasley & Franco Pavan
Songs of passion and despair
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Recorded live at the Nieuwe Kerk The Hague, 28 May 2023
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About this concert
When it comes to Italian Renaissance song, one name is on the tip of our tongue: Marco Beasley. This time he is applying his voice and charisma to frottolas and madrigals full of elegantly rendered despair, which grabbed many a courtier by the throat in the sixteenth century. Companion for this passionate tour de force is string wizard Franco Pavan. In 2021, he personally dragged the songs on this programme from beneath the dust on an Italian family archive. From the very first modern performance of music by Bartolomeo Gazza and a certain Ogniben, to works by Bartolomeo Tromboncino and Philippe Verdelot: passion and despair never lie far from each other in this concert.
Programme
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Marchetto Cara
Mentr'io vo' per questi boschi
(from: Albani Archive, Pesaro)c1465-1525 -
Ogniben Venetiano
Com'havrò dunque il frutto
(from: Albani Archive)16th century -
Marchetto Cara
Amor da che convien
(from: Albani Archive) -
Bartolomeo Gazza
Lasso ahimè
(from: Albani Archive)16th century -
Ogniben Venetiano
E' morta la speranza
(from: Albani Archive) -
Vincenzo Capirola
Ricercare primo
(from: Capirola Lutebook, ca. 1517)1474-after 1548 -
Marchetto Cara
Caro sepulchro mio
(from: Andrea Antico (ed.), Canzoni, Libro IV, Rome 1517) -
Marchetto Cara
Così extrema è la doglia
(from: Albani Archive) -
Bartolomeo Tromboncino
Zephyro spira
(from: Tenori et contrabassi, Libro I, Venice 1509)1470-after 1534 -
Costanzo Festa
Tu es Petrus
(from: Albani Archive)c1485/90-1545 -
Benedetto Gareth
Amando e desiando
(from: Tenori et contrabassi, Libro I, Venice 1511)c1450-1514 -
Vincenzo Capirola
Ricercare ottavo
(from: Capirola Lutebook) -
Marchetto Cara
Quella fiamma ostinata
(from: Albani Archive) -
Bartolomeo Tromboncino
Dolci ire, dolci sdegni
(from: Andrea Antico (ed.), Canzoni nove, Rome 1510) -
Michele Pesenti
Che faralla, che diralla
(from: Ottaviano Petrucci (ed.), Frottole, Libro XI, Fossombrone 1514)c1470-1528 -
Don Timoteo
Uscirallo o resterallo
(from: Frottole, Libro XI)16th century -
Bartolomeo Tromboncino
Vergene Bella
(from: Canzoni nove)
Musicians
- Marco Beasley tenor
- Franco Pavan lute
About the performers
Marco Beasley studied theatre and musicology at the university of Bologna, with special emphasis on ‘recitar cantando’ (sung speech) and sacred and secular polyphony. He received singing lessons from the legendary American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian, after which he proceeded to develop a vocal technique of his own, using his voice in a completely natural way – quite a sensation in the early music world. With his charisma added to the equation, the Italian tenor quickly became one of the most popular and most award-winning performers of classical music.
The Italian lute and theorbo player Franco Pavan graduated cum laude both in lute and in musicology in Milan. He works with leading early music ensembles such as Concerto Italiano, Accordone, La Cappella della Pietà dei Turchini, La Risonanza, La Venexiana and Trinity Baroque. He forms a duo with recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger and is the founder of Ensemble Laboratorio’600. In 2014 he was granted the title Cultore della Materia of music history at the University of Padua. Pavan teaches lute at the conservatory of Verona.