Vergine bella Arianna Savall

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594):
• 1 Vestiva i colli, prima e seconda parte 05:15
• 2 Vestiva i colli 03:18
• Cipriano de Rore (1515 - 1565):
• 3 Non è ch’il duol mi scemi 03:40
• Vincenzo Ruffo (1508 - 1587):
• 4 Dormendo un giorno 02:13
• 5 O felici occhi miei 01:36
• Jacques Arcadelt (1507 - 1568):
• 6 O felici occhi miei (Extended Version) 02:05
• 7 O felici occhi miei, Recercada segonda 02:06
• 8 O felici 02:04
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina:
• 9 Io son ferito 05:40
• Vincenzo Ruffo:
• 10 El pietoso 03:36
• 11 El travagliato 01:42
• Giorgio Mainiero (1535 - 1582):
• 12 Pass‘e mezzo antico 03:10
• 13 Saltarello 01:14
• Cipriano de Rore:
• 14 Anchor che col partire, Girolamo dalla Casa 03:32
• 15 Anchor che col partire, Richardo Rogniono 03:04
• Giovanni Bassano (1558 - 1617):
• 16 Ricercata prima 02:57
• Cipriano de Rore:
• 17 Anchor che col partire, Richardo Rogniono (Extended Version) 03:45
• 18 Anchor che col partire 03:57
• Giovanni Paolo Cima (1570 - 1622):
• 19 Sonata a Canto e basso 03:41
• Cipriano de Rore:
• 20 Vergine bella, Orazio Bassani 06:59
• Vincenzo Ruffo:
• 21 Vergine bella 04:18
• Total Runtime 01:09:52

Info for Vergine bella

With this new recording, we undertake a journey to an epoch of music-historical upheaval in which vocal music served as the model for instrumental music, or rather the natural human voice as the model for the artificial instrument. Whereas the debut project “Joyssance vous donneray” of Il Desiderio (with Arianna Savall, soprano, and a Renaissance flute consort with Tomas Kugler, among others) was dedicated to French chansons and their arrangements and parodies, „Vergine bella" places the Italian repertoire in the limelight, with its polyphonic madrigals of the sixteenth century (prima prattica) and the early monodic canzonas and sonatas of the seventeenth century.

Vocal traditions that (more than ever before) lastingly informed secular as well as sacred instrumental works constituted the foundation of that music, but simultaneously blazed the trail for the attainment of an independent instrumental language and style for each wind, string, keyboard, and plucked instrument.

The vocal repertoire of this epoch - the music-historical period between the “prima prattica” and “seconda prattica” (ca. 1550 to ca. 1610) - is quite diverse and deserves to be documented in a correspondingly fond manner.

Arianna Savall, soprano
Il Desiderio
Thomas Kügler, traverse flute

Arianna Savall
born in Switzerland, studied in Basel and Terrassa. She began studying early music performance practise with Rolf Lislevand at the Toulouse Conservatory in 1992. Between 1996 and 2001 she returned to Schola Cantorum Basiliensis for postgraduate studies in singing with Kurt Widmer and historical harp studies with Heidrun Rosenzweig, and in 2006/7 studied Spanish baroque harp with Andrew Lawrence-King in Barcelona. She made her debut as singer of baroque opera in Basel in 2000 performing the “Opera Seria” of Florian Leopold Gassmann. This was followed in 2002 by a highly successful Barcelona production of Moneverdi’s “Orfeo” directed by Jordi Savall, with Arianna as Eurydice. Her recordings with the Savall family and with Hespèrion XXI ensemble have received numerous awards. Arianna’s own albums for Alia Vox include “Bella Terra” (2003) and “Peiwoh” (2009), the latter also with contributions from Hirundo Maris’s Petter Udland Johansen and David Mayoral.

Petter Udland Johansen was born in Oslo, where he received his first voice and instrumental training. He graduated from the Norges Musikhøyskole, studying voice with Ingrid Bjoner and Svein Bjørkøy in 1996 and from Basel’s Schola Cantorum with Richard Levitt in 2000, making also additional studies with the tenor Hans Peter Blochwitz. His operatic and concert repertoire of classical music includes the works of Bach, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Mendelssohn as well as songs by Schubert, Grieg, Wolf, Mahler and Brahms. He has worked with conductors including Rinaldo Alessandrini, Jordi Savall, Pep Prats, Christer Løvold, Tom and Tobias Kjellum Gossmann. Groups with which he has given concerts and recordings include Sagene Ring, Capella Antiqua Bambergensis, Pratum Musicum, La Morra, Ferarra and Lucidarium. Together with Christer Løvold and Mark B. Lay, he founded the vocal trio Pechrima.