Hello - Robert here.
I Fagiolini's third (and final) recording of Orazio Benevoli
multi-choir masses (Rome, 17th century) will be recorded on July
3-5. As you know, this projects can only happen because kind people
like you think it's worthwhile and support it.
Below is an enticing list of performers and tracks, each with
a different amount allocated, depending on the length of a track or
how involved someone is in the project.
Anyone who donates will have their name in the CD booklet
and be invited to attend the rehearsal for the project.
(We thought of making special tiers of gifts but we'd prefer that
everyone is credited and has the opportunity to listen live.) Once
the goal for that item is reached, it will become unavailable.
The disc is a journey from Easter to Pentecost. We should
probably call it 'A rushing wind' - though possibly not good for a
group called 'the beans'. It starts with Mary at the foot of the
cross in Grandi's extreme 'Plorabo die ac nocte' (one of Sammy's
favourite pieces) and then Benevoli's 3-choir Mass, 'Angelus Domini'
(listed below as Missa AD), the Angel at the tomb. Palestrina's
6-part Pentecost motet, 'Dum complerentur' is followed by Benevoli's
4-choir Mass on it (Missa DC). And to finish, (monsieur), an 8-voice
outrage on the Loquebantur text ('the apostles spoke with many
tongues') which runs in two keys at once and has a naughty inverse
canon - also from Rome.
Take your pick but it's all staggering.
Alessandro Grandi - Plorabo die ac nocte
Orazio Benevoli
- Missa Angelus Domini (for 3 choirs)
Palestrina - Dum
complerentur dies pentecostes
Orazio Benevoli - Missa Dum
complerentur (for 4 choirs)
Don Fernando de las Infantas -
Loquebantur variis linguis
Thank you.
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I Fagiolini is internationally renowned for its genuinely innovative productions: “The group are musical shapeshifters, following Hollingworth’s giddy, eclectic imagination wherever it leads” (The Spectator). Signature projects have included The Full Monteverdi by John La Bouchardière; Tallis in Wonderland, a new way of hearing polyphony with live and recorded voices; Simunye, the South African collaboration; How Like An Angel (HLAA), with Australian contemporary circus company C!RCA for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and performed at the Perth International Arts Festival, New York and in cathedrals across Europe; and Betrayal: a polyphonic crime drama (with John La
Bouchardière), an immersive theatre piece sung to the music of Gesualdo with dancers and singers set in ‘crime scenes’.
A year-long celebration of Monteverdi’s 450th anniversary in 2017 featured performances of The Other Vespers and L’Orfeo at venues including Glyndebourne, Cadogan Hall for the BBC Proms and Queen’s Hall as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. Monteverdi: The Other Vespers was released on Decca Classics to great acclaim and shortlisted for a Gramophone award; “achieving a
thrilling synergy of articulate instrumental playing, fulsome choral ripienos and dexterous solo singing”(Gramophone). The celebrations continued in 2018 with performances of L’Orfeo in Antwerp (AMUZ) and further afield. In 2019 the production developed with director Thomas Guthrie’s use of masks, with performances in Stour, York and London.
I Fagiolini explored ‘Art through the prism of Music’ with leading da Vinci expert Professor Martin Kemp in Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible. Touring extensively throughout 2019, the programme celebrated the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death in music and image. The album was released on CORO to high acclaim; “Yet again, the eight-strong vocal ensemble... has come up with an ingenious ‘concept’ programme that stirs the mind and heart, illuminates the past, and ravishes the ear” (The Telegraph). Tracks were premiered at The National Gallery in its own da Vinci celebrations; films and further commentary feature in Apple Music, Gramophone Magazine and Classic FM’s online galleries. Following its success, Robert and music from the album appeared in Phil Grabsky’s new da Vinci film for Exhibition on Screen Leonardo: The Works. The film received its UK premiere at Chichester Film Festival and appeared in cinemas across the world including Dubai and Vancouver film festivals - it will appear in Exhibition on Screen’s ITV series.
Touring more art and music, I Fagiolini – Au Naturel is a rich choral calendar inspired by Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s The Seasons, particularly poignant in our changing climate. The programme featured in I Fagiolini’s Moscow debut as part of the British Council’s ‘UK-Russia Year of Music’. A new programme based on T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ will showcase a series of five modern Nocturns including Victoria’s Tenebrae Responsories, the Lamentations of Jeremiah and Lassus’ Sibylline Prophecies premiering in 2021 for the Tenebrae Festival. Reprising its collaboration with Scottish Ensemble, an immersive Purcell dance programme, A Purcell Phantasy, is also in planning.
Previous Decca Classics discs include Striggio Mass in 40 parts (2011 Early Music Gramophone and Diapason D’or Award), Amuse-Bouche - French Choral Delicacies, and 1612 Italian Vespers. The group is delighted to be Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of York. I Fagiolini is managed worldwide by Percius. www.percius.co.uk
