Last appointment of the VII International Festival of Ancient Music “Notes without Time”

Il VII International Festival of Ancient Music “Timeless Notes” reaches its last appointment with a particularly important evening dedicated to Claudio Monteverdi.
The concert will be held Monday 30 December at 19.00 at the Civic Theater of Sassari.

For this end of the season a new stage production of Tancredi and Clorinda's fight, created by the ensemble Dolci Accenti. The work, one of the most intense masterpieces of the Italian seventeenth century, will be played by a highly prestigious cast. The protagonist of the evening will be Furio Zanasi, recognized among the greatest interpreters of the Monteverdian repertoire, flanked by Cynthia Franchini e Daniel Cernuto. With them, l’Orchestra of the Note senza Tempo Festival, directed by Andrea Riderelli.

This concert is staged thanks to the direction ofExcept Disca which transformed and interpreted the love and war story of the two protagonists thanks to two dancers. The production of this show is by the musical APS Dolci Accenti

This appointment represents the culmination of a particularly rich edition, divided into thirteen events which saw the participation of musicians from all over Europe and the involvement of young generations through ancient music academies.

Admission is free, with reservation required via online form:
https://forms.gle/uRt4V9uLdyiHrTMG9

The interpreters

Furio Zanasi

Internationally renowned baritone, he is among the most authoritative interpreters of the Italian repertoire of the early seventeenth century. He has collaborated with the major European festivals and theatres, working with conductors such as Jordi Savall, John Eliot Gardiner, Rene Jacobs, Alan Curtis, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Ottavio Dantone, Diego Fasolis and Riccardo Chailly. His activity includes over ninety recordings for some of the most important record labels.

Cynthia Franchini

Italian-Argentine baroque singer, graduated in Renaissance and Baroque singing at the “Bruno Maderna” Conservatory in Cesena. He is a founding member of the ensemble Florilegii Musici and regularly collaborates with international festivals and institutions. He performed baroque operatic roles and tackled repertoires ranging from Monteverdi and Purcell to Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn.

Daniel Cernuto

Viola da gamba and cellist, he has collaborated with numerous ensembles specialized in historical performance practice, touring and recording in Europe and beyond. Founder and artistic director of the ensemble Dolci Accenti, He is currently a cello teacher at the Liceo Musicale “Pigafetta” in Vicenza. For Brilliant Classics he recorded the world premiere of Sammartini's sonatas op. 4.

Andrea Riderelli – Director

Trained between Rome and Bucharest, he is active as an orchestra conductor, composer and teacher. He founded the ensembles another way e other resonances, dedicated respectively to the baroque repertoire and to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. His activity includes symphonic reworkings, dissemination and teaching projects at Italian and Swiss institutions.

the program

The concert is built around Tancredi and Clorinda's fight, preceded and flanked by vocal and instrumental pages from seventeenth-century Italian which evoke atmospheres and languages, from the excited style to the expressive intensity of the madrigals.

Complete program

Dario Castello (1602–1631)
Sonata tenth sixth a 4 for stringed instruments

Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Madrigals and arias a 1 o 2 voices
Loving letter
The return of Ulysses to his homeland, Act I – I'm still sleeping, the sound of this?
Arianna's Lament

Bartolomeo Spighi (1590–1660)
O happy place, in two voices

Sigismund of India (1582–1629)
To war, in two voices

Biagio Marini (1594–1663)
Passage a 4

Claudio Monteverdi
Tancredi and Clorinda's fight

Timeless Notes Orchestra

Violin I – Attilio Motzo
Violin II – Alberto Sanna
Viola – Gabriele Politi
Cello – Daniel Cernuto
Violone – Federica Aré
Archlute and baroque guitar – Calogero Sportato
thiorba – Antonio Fresi
Harpsichord – Cipriana Smarandescu

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