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THE STILL MUSIC Flauto dolce e liuto

Music of the 16th and 17th centuries in Augsburg and Venice

 

The "quiet music" cultivated in the patrician houses of Augsburg during the Renaissance is recorded in documents of the time. Paul von Stetten the Younger writes: „Um diese Zeit war es gewöhnlich, bey allen Gastmahlen und Hochzeiten, nicht nur zum Tanze, sondern auch bey der Tafel, Musik zu haben (…)Man nennte dieses damals stille Musiken, und bey diesen war Melchior Neusidler, ein hiesiger berühmter Componiste und Lautenschläger, eine Hauptperson, die aller Vornehmen und Reichen Beyfall und Gewogenheit sich durch Kunst erworben hatte.“ 

Melchior Neusidler, "citizen and lutenist in Augsburg" and at the same time one of the most important lute artists in German music history, is the starting point for this concert. When Hans-Jakob Fugger enabled Neusidler to stay in Italy, "Il Primo Libro / Intabulatura di liuto di Melchiore Neysidler Alemano, Sonatore di Liuto in Augusta" was published by Antonio Gardano in Venice in 1566. Italian music with madrigals, canzonas, passamezzi and saltarelli in the "quieter" instrumentation of flauto dolce and liuto , but also compositions of the Venetian Baroque by Benedetto Marcello and Antonio Vivaldi are another point of reference for this evening.

 

PROGRAM

Melchior Newsidler (1531-1591)  Ricercar quarto / Pass e mezzo / Il suo saltarello                                                                            

Hans Neusiedler   (1508-1563) Ein  Welscher Tantz  : Wascha mesa                                                                                

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger   (ca 1580-1651)

Sinfonia XIII (1615) /

Toccata VI / Gagliarda I / Corrente VII  /Alla luce, alle luce (from: Libro quarto delle Villanelle 1623)

Sinfonia IV (1615)

John Dowland (1563-1626) A Fancy                                                                                                                                 

Johann Schop (1590-1667)  Pavan Lachrimae

Antonio Valente (1520-1581)  Lo Ballo dell ‘Intorcia

Anonym   Aria di Fiorenza (id est Il Ballo del Granduca)

Giovanni Bassano (1561-1617) Diminution “Ancor che col partire" by Cipriano de Rore

Marco Uccellini (1610-1680)  Sonata XI (from: Ozio Regio, op. 7, Venezia 1660)

Pause

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)  Sonate op. 13,6 RV 58  (Paris 1737)
Vivace -Allabreve
 Fuga da Capella- 
Largo -
Allegro ma non presto

Giovanni Zamboni (1664-1721)  Sonata VI g-moll   (Lucca 1718)
Alemanda - Giga - Sarabanda largo - Gavotta

Benedetto Marcello (1686–1739)  Sonata F-Dur op. 2 Nr. 12 (Venedig 1712)
Adagio-Minuet -Gavotta
-Largo-Ciaconna

Iris Lichtinger, renaissance and baroque flutes & Axel Wolf, lute