Ossesso Ratas del viejo Mundo

• Adrian Willaert (1490 - 1562):
• 1 I vidi in terra angelici costumi 05:05
• Jacopo da Bologna (1340 - 1386):
• 2 O cieco mondo 01:35
• Donato da Firenze (1350 - 1370):
• 3 I' fu' gia bianch'ucciel 02:06
• Ivo Barry (1525-1550), Bálint Bakfark (1507 - 1576):
• 4 Pace non trovo 04:34
• Jacob Arcadelt (1507 - 1568):
• 5 Ahimè, dov' è'l bel viso 02:18
• Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro (1420 - 1484):
• 6 Amoroso 02:05
• Alonso Mudarra (1510 - 1580):
• 7 O gelosia 02:32
• Anonymous:
• 8 Chiara fontana 01:14
• Vincenzo Galilei (1520 - 1591):
• 9 Duo tutti di fantasia 01:29
• Filippo de Monte (1521 - 1603):
• 10 Di mie dogliose note 03:07
• Francesco Canova da Milano (1497 - 1543):
• 11 Ricercare 01:47
• Anonymous:
• 12 Bassa danza 01:41
• Vincenzo Galilei:
• 13 Contrapunto 02:05
• Hubert Waelrant (1517 - 1595):
• 14 Vorria morire 01:37
• Traditional:
• 15 Scjaraçule maraçule 01:05
• Joan Ambrosio Dalza (1508 -?):
• 16 Piva 02:37
• Carlo Gesualdo (1566 - 1613):
• 17 Già piansi nel dolore 02:36
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino (1470 - 1535):
• 18 Se ben hor non scopro il foco 03:12
• Michelagnolo Galilei (1575 - 1631):
• 19 Toccata 01:23
• Giaches de Wert (1535 - 1596):
• 20 Giunto alla tomba 05:19
• Anonymous:
• 21 Su la rivera 02:01
• Orlando di Lasso (1532 - 1594):
• 22 Vivo sol di speranza 02:08
• Total Runtime 53:36

Info for Ossesso

Jealousy, tenderness, loneliness and longing, desire, unattainability, sensuality, frustration, love, lust and loss in all their configurations come together in OSSESSO. The old masters allow us no escape from the painfully vivid portrayals of their experiences. Tromboncino and Gesualdo exemplify the extremes of which obsessiveness is capable, in their music as in their lives; in this sense, they are precursors to Phil Spector, Sid Vicious, or Bertrand Cantat. – A selection of absolutely touching madrigals about love and affliction that represent the kaleidoscope of feelings and emotions of their composers, be it in the late Middle Ages or in the Renaissance, interspersed with some instrumental pieces.

Ratas del viejo Mundo
Floris De Rycker, direction

Ratas del viejo Mundo
The rodents of the old world — Ratas del viejo Mundo — travel the length and breadth of Europe to form their very own rat pack, coming together around songs, polyphony and instrumental music composed before 1650. The ensemble was formed in 2017 under the enthusiastic leadership of lutenist Floris De Rycker. Ratas del viejo Mundo finds freedom within an exceptionally sensual musical idiom, comparing period instrumental arrangements with partbooks for the same music.

The instrumentalists’ choices of tonalities and chord inversions contribute to that freedom, as do other options: whether to repeat some passages and omit others, to let a flurry of diminutions flash through slow and stately movements, to vary the rhythm, add and even omit parts… Different printed versions of the same arrangement sometimes contradict each other, whilst the tradition of musica ficta is branded deeply into lute tablature. The initial outstanding quality of the composition, however, is always preserved. In addition to consulting early repertoire transmitted in print or manuscript, Ratas del Viejo Mundo also draws on a wealth of popular, folk, ethnic, or oral traditions in its performances and recordings.

Concerts have takent Ratas del viejo Mundo to prestigious podia in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, the Czech Republic, Austria, Norway and the United States. The ensemble has been artist in residence at Festival of Flanders, Alba Nova and Næstved Early Music Festival.

A high profile collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Hans Op de Beeck entitled Vlaemsch is currently in preparation; an international tour will follow. Ratas del Viejo Mundo’s recordings have received worldwide airplay and acclaim: ´The realisation of ultimate beauty requires the most powerful artistic and technical impulse imaginable. It's definitely in good hands with Ratas del viejo Mundo. [OpusKlassiek].

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