Cantica Symphonia & Guiseppe Maletto
Biography Cantica Symphonia & Guiseppe Maletto
Cantica Symphonia
For over a decade Cantica Symphonia has dedicated itself to the recovery and performance of medieval and renaissance polyphony.
Founded in 1995 by Giuseppe Maletto and Svetlana Fomina, the group is now one of the most highly regarded interpreters in its field. Cantica Symphonia’s unique style, fruit of intensive analysis of original sources, is characterized by an ability to bring out the structural and expressive richness of its repertoire. The group’s approach is one of particular care and attention to the interaction between voices and instruments, consolidating the collective experience of its members who individually collaborate with the most highly affirmed groups of today’s international Early Music scene.
The fulcrum of the group’s activity has always been the music of Guillaume Dufay, the first great musician of the “modern” era whose works enlightened his times and guided western music through the travailed passage from medieval to renaissance.
Since 2005 Cantica Symphonia records exclusively for the Spanish record label Glossa, with which it has in progress a series of CDs dedicated to the music of Dufay. The first volume, Quadrivium, was realized in collaboration with the University of Turin and is dedicated to the motets of the Franco-Flemish master. It has been met with critical acclaim, winning the prestigious Diapason d’or de l’année and the Choc from Le Monde de la Musique.
Prior to its collaboration with Glossa, Cantica Symphonia realized a series of highly acclaimed discs with guest director Kees Boeke for the label Stradivarius, and a CD featuring music of the French Ars Nova from the Ivrea Codex for the record label Opus 111.
The ensemble’s concert performances have been met with the same warm consensus as its recording projects. Cantica Symphonia has concertized throughout Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Estonia, and Slovenia and appears regularly in prestigious festivals: Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet, the Festival van Vlaanderen in Brugge and Antwerp, the Tage alter Musik in Regensburg, Concerts de St. Germain in Geneva, Settembre Musica and Unione Musicale in Torino.
Composers Filippo Del Corno, Carlo Galante e Yacov Gubanov wrote music expressly for Cantica Symphonia.
