Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
& The Miami Bach Society Concert Series
Il Furioso:
Battaglia d'amore
Friday, April 17, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Vizcaya Museum
enclosed courtyard
3251 South Miami Avenue
Miami, FL
For tickets call 305.669.1376
Il Furioso celebrates Vizcaya's Venetian connection with a program entitled Battaglia d'amore, consisting of early 17th-century virtuosic music for voices, lutes, and harpsichord. The concert will include the Miami premier of Claudio Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, an unstaged 25-minute scena for three singers, string band, and continuo from Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). Well familiar with this literary masterpiece, in 1925 James Deering bequeathed three paintings by Giambattista Tiepolo depicting scenes from Tasso's epic to the Art Institute of Chicago. A landmark of musical innovation, Combattimento is the first operatic piece to use instruments to participate in and describe the dramatic action with such techniques as pizzicato, tremolo, string snaps, etc. in what came to be known as "stile concitato," giving birth to a dynamic new approach to musical drama.
An international collaboration of musicians, Il Furioso specializes in early Italian Baroque music rediscovered and resurrected through the research of Il Furioso lutenists and musicologists David Dolata and Victor Coelho. The group is anchored by Italian tenor virtuoso Gian Paolo Fagotto, one of the leading exponents of early seventeenth-century Italian vocal song. For performances in Miami Il Furioso is joined by harpsichordist Robert Heath and a complement of musicians from Florida International University and the University of Miami. Il Furioso’s recording of Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger’s Libro secondo d’arie (Rome, 1623) for the London label Toccata Classics was praised by Goldberg Magazine as a ‘polished and pleasurable recording’ with ‘first-class singing’. Their next recording for Toccata Classics, Battaglia d'amore, the Music of Bellerofonte Castaldi, is scheduled for release in Europe in January and in North America shortly thereafter.
General Admission: $30.00
Members of the Vizcayans, the Vizcayan volunteer guides, and members of the Miami Bach Society: $20.00
Light refreshments available prior to performance and during intermission for a fee.
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For tickets call 305.669.1376
Limited Seating. The Vizcaya concerts sell out quickly.
Please call early if you wish to attend.