ARDO D’AMORE

The best music (sacred, profane, vocal, instrumental) of Caravaggio’s time played by the historically informed group Schola Romana Ensemble, on original instruments, conducting by Stefano Sabene.

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In Roman Baroque music, sacred and profane, worldliness and spirituality meet in an endless variety of timbres, rhythms, harmonic and melodic creations, in a shining spark of sounds, representing one of the richest and highest moments in Western music history. Listening to the surprising and fascinating Roman Baroque world of sounds, reveals, more than any word, its essence and spirit.

All the artistic aesthetic elements have their equivalent in music, that shows a substantial unity within the art and music of the time, when, between the 16th and 17th Century, one of the most exciting moments of the European art and culture takes shape in Rome.
Nowhere else there is such a high concentration of artists, architects, musicians able to create works of universal value: from Michelangelo to Raphael, from Bramante to Bernini and Borromini, as well as, for the musicians, Palestrina, Victoria, Caccini, Frescobaldi, Carissimi – all present in this CD – whose compositions are beyond time.

¹ T‘amai gran tempo, Stefano Landi
² Tono hypodorio, Athanasius Kircher
³ Se l’aura spira, Girolamo Frescobaldi
⁴ Peccantem me quotidie, Cristobàl de Morales
⁵ Dalla porta d’oriente, Giulio Caccini
⁶ Sì dolce è ‘l tormento, Claudio Monteverdi
⁷ O vezzosetta dalla chioma d’oro, Andrea Falconieri
⁸ Soccorso ahimè, Andrea Falconieri
⁹ A la vida, bona Juan Arañés
¹⁰ Amarilli, Giulio Caccini
¹¹ Ardo d’amore, Andrea Falconieri
¹² Canarios, Gaspar Sanz
¹³ Sicut cervus, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
¹⁴ Bayle, Andrea Falconieri
¹⁵ O bellissimi capelli, Andrea Falconieri
¹⁶ Pueri hebraeorum, Tomàs Luìs de Victoria
¹⁷ Pastorella ove t’ascondi, Andrea Falconieri
¹⁸ O felix anima, Giacomo Carissimi
¹⁹ Quel sguardo sdegnosetto, Claudio Monteverdi
²⁰ Sarei troppo felice, Georg Friedrich Händel
Total Time: 63’ 33’’