I Bassifondi, Simone Vallerotonda – Alfabeto falso (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:01 minutes | 476 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arcana
After the success of ‘L’ultimo romano’, his album of music for archlute from the 1718 collection of the Roman composer Giovanni Zamboni, Simone Vallerotonda presents something totally new with his Baroque ‘power trio’ I Bassifondi: ‘Alfabeto falso’. Their debut album is devoted to Italian and Spanish music for guitar and theorbo from the first half of the seventeenth century. A little-known repertory, characterised by rhythmic oddities and harmonic extravagances that challenge those of contemporary jazz. Ordinary ‘alfabeto’ (alphabet) was the system used by guitarists of the period to mark chords: each letter corresponded to a single chord. But, in the ‘false alphabet’, those letters which were marked with a slash indicated chords containing dissonances, often very bold. The trio, comprising guitar/theorbo, percussion instruments and colachon, reconstructs an ensemble typical of the seventeenth century. Breathtaking rhythms, ‘dirty’ chords, improvisations and variations: these are the colours they seek to convey in their sound. The beauty and the challenge of this disc lie precisely in providing an interpretation that respects everything notated in the score, and in the choice of arrangements and timbres. This music sounds modern and perhaps slightly provocative to us, but all of it was written around 1640!
Tracklist:
Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (1600-1647)
1 Toccata detta l’innamorata 01:26
2 Gagliarda francese 01:26
3 Passacaglio per la O 02:22
Simone Vallerotonda
4 Impro #1 00:34
Hieronimus Kapsberger (1580-1651)
5 Sfessania 01:24
6 Passacaglia 04:53
Antonio Carbonchi
7 Scaramanzie 02:21
Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739)
8 Folias Gallegas 02:32
Ferdinando Valdambrini
9 Capona 02:33
Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638)
10 Toccata cromatica 03:15
Josep María Martí Duran
11 Impro #2 00:55
Alessandro Piccinini
12 Partite sopra l’aria francese detta l’alemanna 01:32
13 Corrente VI sopra l’alemanna 01:22
Simone Vallerotonda
14 Impro #3 00:19
Santiago de Murcia
15 Cumbées 02:08
Angelo Michele Bartolotti (1615-1681)
16 Passacaglia per la D 03:07
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)
17 Passacaglia per la X 02:46
Hieronimus Kapsberger
18 Kapsberger 02:19
19 Corrente VII 01:05
Giovanni Paolo Foscarini
20 Aria di Firenze 01:58
21 Colascione 03:34
22 Los Impossibles 03:33
23 Impro #4 02:39
