Claudio Ambrosini - Kapsberger, Secret Pages Stefano Maiorana

• Claudio Ambrosini (b. 1948): At the Murazzi, Ancient Sea Fortifications:
• 1 Ambrosini: At the Murazzi, Ancient Sea Fortifications 00:20
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580 - 1651): [Untitled] (I):
• 2 Kapsberger: [Untitled] (I) 01:03
• Claudio Ambrosini: Tastata:
• 3 Ambrosini: Tastata 01:04
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Corrente:
• 4 Kapsberger: Corrente 01:39
• Claudio Ambrosini: Tastata riflessa:
• 5 Ambrosini: Tastata riflessa 01:39
• Steps Into the Flood (Aquagranda 2019):
• 6 Ambrosini: Steps Into the Flood (Aquagranda 2019) 00:26
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Toccata I:
• 7 Kapsberger: Toccata I 03:01
• Claudio Ambrosini: Toccata:
• 8 Ambrosini: Toccata 03:03
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Gagliarda:
• 9 Kapsberger: Gagliarda 01:50
• Claudio Ambrosini: Aria:
• 10 Ambrosini: Aria 04:07
• Gondolas Moored at the Biennale Gardens:
• 11 Ambrosini: Gondolas Moored at the Biennale Gardens 00:40
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: [Untitled] (II):
• 12 Kapsberger: [Untitled] (II) 01:43
• Claudio Ambrosini: Canzone:
• 13 Ambrosini: Canzone 02:15
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Ricerchata:
• 14 Kapsberger: Ricerchata 02:34
• Claudio Ambrosini: Canzone in eco:
• 15 Ambrosini: Canzone in eco 01:15
• Moored Cruise Ships:
• 16 Ambrosini: Moored Cruise Ships 00:38
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Aria Veneziana:
• 17 Kapsberger: Aria Veneziana 01:59
• Claudio Ambrosini: Sarabanda:
• 18 Ambrosini: Sarabanda 02:33
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Battaglia:
• 19 Kapsberger: Battaglia 04:03
• Claudio Ambrosini: Ciaccona:
• 20 Ambrosini: Ciaccona 07:36
• High Tide in St. Mark's Square, Bells and Chorus of Seagulls:
• 21 Ambrosini: High Tide in St. Mark's Square, Bells and Chorus of Seagulls 00:43
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Toccata II:
• 22 Kapsberger: Toccata II 02:43
• Claudio Ambrosini: Ricercare:
• 23 Ambrosini: Ricercare 01:26
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Romanesche:
• 24 Kapsberger: Romanesche 04:19
• Claudio Ambrosini: Children at the Frari (Tomb of Monteverdi):
• 25 Ambrosini: Children at the Frari (Tomb of Monteverdi) 00:22
• Arpeggiata:
• 26 Ambrosini: Arpeggiata 06:03
• Total Runtime 59:04

Info for Claudio Ambrosini - Kapsberger, Secret Pages

"Io, Kapsberger nato in Venetia...". Werke von Kapsberger sind zwar häufig eingespielt worden, aber dem Repertoire, das direkt aus handschriftlichen Quellen stammt, wurde bisher nur wenig Platz eingeräumt. Kapsberger unterhielt zeit seines Lebens eine intensive Beziehung zur Stadt Venedig. Das Venedig von Willaert, Gabrieli und Monteverdi hat jedoch nicht nur eine prächtige Vergangenheit: Es ist auch heute noch lebendig und setzt seine musikalische Tradition in der zweiten venezianischen Schule von Malipiero, Maderna und Nono fort. Dank der jüngsten Werke von Claudio Ambrosini (Gewinner des Prix de Rome und des Leone d'Oro auf der Biennale von Venedig), dem jüngsten Protagonisten der zweiten musikalischen Renaissance Venedigs, dessen Werke bereits bei den Labels Kairos, Outhere-Solal und Stradivarius erschienen sind, wird Kapsbergers Theorbe hier wiederbelebt. "Kapsberger, pagine segrete" offenbart eine erstaunliche instrumentale Bandbreite zwischen weniger bekannten Werken von Kapsberger, in denen Ideen und kreative Intuition vorherrschen, und Ambrosinis unveröffentlichten Werken, die ebenso viel Kreativität und unerwartete Möglichkeiten für das Instrument bereithalten. Stefano Maiorana ist ein Kapsberger-Spezialist, der bereits eine vielbeachtete Monographie über den Komponisten veröffentlicht hat; sein kürzlich erscheinendes Album Entre dos almas für Barockgitarre war nicht minder erfolgreich.

Stefano Maiorana, Theorbe

Stefano Maiorana
earned a Diploma in Classical Guitar at the Conservatorio S. Cecilia in Rome. Continuing his studies at Conservatorio S. Cecilia, he obtained a Level II Degree with honours in Classical Guitar, specialising in performance and composition with Bruno Battisti D’Amario, and a Level II Degree with honours and special commendation in lute and early plucked-string instruments with Andrea Damiani. He has followed guitar specialisation courses at the Accademia Chigiana under Oscar Ghiglia, and further advanced courses in early music at Fima, Urbino under Paul O’Dette. He graduated in ‘Architecture and Construction Techniques’ at the Prima Facoltà di Architettura de La Sapienza.

He has performed in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Swiss, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Australia and Mongolia, as soloist and basso continuo player for festivals or concert seasons (Hochschule für Künste in Bremen during the International Lute Festival, at the Italian Institute of culture in Oslo and at the Italian Institute of culture in Stockholm, the Auditorium Parco della Musica and Teatro Olimpico in Rome, the Romea Theatre in Murcia, the Maison de l’Italie – Cité internationale universitaire in Paris, the Groteska Theatre in Krakow, in the Festivals Roma Barocco, Materia Prima, Platonov Arts, Barocco di Viterbo, Antiqua, Düsseldorf Festival, Early Music Festival, Emufest, Nuova Consonanza, Tuscia and Roma Tre University, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, etc.). In 2017 he was invited as soloist by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra to perform in the “Spanish Baroque” tour in Australia (Sydney City Recital Hall, Melbourne Recital Hall and Queensland Performing Arts Center).

He collaborated with Radio Vaticana to set up a music programme dedicated to the development of music from the Baroque period to the 20th century; he recorded pieces for the Radio Vaticana programme “Diapason”, in which he appeared as both guest and performer. He was co-author of the article “Three Characters between Music and Architecture in the Renaissance: Donadio, Giorgi and Palladio”, published in “Music and Architecture”, ed. Nuova Cultura.

His debut CD “Intavolatura” (Fra Bernardo label) with music by Kapsberger for solo theorbo received enthusiastic reviews by European, Canadian and American magazines (Early Music America, Scherzo, Le Devoir, American Record Guide, Lute News, Gitarr och Luta…).

He has worked both for theatre and cinema and curated sound installation for art exhibitions. He has held seminars and conferences relating to various aspects of early music practice at institutions for High Musical Education.

He is professor of Lute Performance at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Briccialdi in Terni.

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