[ Sony Classical / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 25 July 2018
Rolf Lislevand and Concerto Stella Matutina first worked on a project in 2011, which would result in a prosperous collaboration in concert series and now, the release of their first CD together. The album is a mix of baroque and jazz as well as improvised passages with music arranged for the 12 people orchestra by Andrea Falconieri, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and Vincenzo Albrici. Bringing the elements of baroque and jazz together and developing a new kind of music by optimizing the instruments of Early Music and giving each instrument section its moment on the recording was the goal of this release. With this intimate and wel lmixed recording, the musicians did not aim to create crossover music or fit into any other genre but rather generate a sound that is a symbiosis of different musical elements.
"There is so much going on here that it's easy to find yourself willing the thing to finish so that you can play it all over again." MusicWeb on their previous recording
Vejvanovsky: Intrada
Handel: Eternal Source of Light Divine (from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74)
Foscarini: Pass'e mezzo e passacalli
Florian King: Zweitett
Foscarini: Tastegiata detta la Feretti
Francesco da Milano, Tomasz Stanko: La Spagna / Suspended Variations (Arrangement)
Frescobaldi: Aria di Passacaglia
anon.: Por que llorax blanca niña? (Arrangement)
Philipp Jakob Rittler: Ciaccona (Arrangement)