Repertoire

All the programs listed below can be performed as a concert and/or liturgical celebration. Please contact us for an offer for the relative program.

Sacre Repertoire

Polyphony before Palestrina

Mottets by Franchino Gaffurio (1451-1522), Josquin Des Près (1440?-1521), Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) and others intercalated with Gregorian chants.

Dum esset summus Pontifex: a Palestrina's Missa in Rome at the end of sixteenth century

The great roman composer Missa "Dum Esset summus Pontifex" intercalated by his mottets and by mottets of Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548ca-1611), Giovanni Francesco Anerio (1567-1630), Giovanni Maria Nanino (1544-1607).

Palestrina and his times

Mottets cum choro plena voce from the Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Second Book of four voices mottets (1525/6-1594) followed by mottets by Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548ca-1611), Giovanni Francesco Anerio (1567-1630) and Giovanni Maria Nanino (1544-1607).

If ye love mee - A comparison between English and Italian renaissance polyphonic schools

Sacred polyphony of the Roman (Nanino, Victoria, Palestrina, Anerio) and English school (Tallis, Byrd) in the golden century for sacre music.

"Feria Quinta in Coena Domini": Marcantonio Ingegneri's music for the Maundy Thursday liturgy (1547-1592)

A liturgycal reconstruction of the Monteverdi Teacher's Maundy Thursday music. This is the program included in one of our recordings.

A Missa in the sixteenth century Rome: Tomas Luis de Victoria's "O quam gloriosum est regnum" (1548-1611)

The great spanish composer's Missa (1548-1611) (which worked many years in Rome) with mottets and hymns.

Liszt's "Via Crucis"

The masterpieces produced by the conversion of the hungarian composer in its last year of life.

Secular Repertoire

"Vorria che tu cantassi una canzone…": noble and popular love in the wonderful irony of the renaissance singer

Love madrigals, villanelles, ballets and songs of noble and popular character. The performance involve dramatization of some texts, costumes, and the use of a few instruments (harpsichord, percussions).

Instrumental Repertoire

Giacomo Carissimi's "Jephte"

The Giacomo Carissimi's masterpieces (1605-1674) proposed with a basso continuo part based on a historical analysis of the instrumental realization (organ, harpsichord, chitarrone, violone).

A Moral and Spiritual Selva: the sacre Monteverdi repertoire

Monteverdi's Messa a 4 da cappella (1640); the Messa ordinarium pieces (kyrye, gloria, etc.) are intercalated with psalms, mottets and hymns from the well known "Selva morale e Spirituale" and from other books. The performance involve the vocal ensemble, many soloists and an instrumental ensemble made up of: violins, trombones, positive organ, theorbo, harpsichord, chitarrone and Violone).

Orchestral Repertoire

Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Messe de Minuti pour Noël (1634-1704)

Accompanied by an instrumental ensemble made up of very good performers, Il Convitto Armonico produced an extremely suggestive concert based on the mass written by Charpentier for the 1694 Christmas.

Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria and Magnificat

The Vivaldi's masterpieces in the original semantic, rhetoric dimension and strength.

Christmas Repertoire

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

The traditional Christmas Cambridge concert proposed with English and Italian traditional songs.

In preparation

A motet and two Bach Cantatas

The Bach's motet "Jesus Mine Freude" with two cantatas. The performance involves some soloists and a small instrumental ensemble.