Il Pergolese

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If you liked Uri Caine’s updating of the Goldbergs, you should enjoy ‘Il Pergolese’, a homage to Pergolesi that reimagines his music in the context of contemporary improvisation. Melodic lines... — Early Music Today More…

Release Date: 21st Oct 2013
Catalogue No: 4810427
Label: ECM
Length: 59 minutes

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Pergolesi: Ogne pena cchiù spietata

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Maria Pia De Vito (voice), François Couturier (piano), Anja Lechner (cello), Michele Rabbia (percussion)
Recorded: 2012-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Pergolesi: Amen / Fac Ut Portem

Work length11:20

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Maria Pia De Vito (voice), François Couturier (piano), Anja Lechner (cello), Michele Rabbia (percussion)
Recorded: 2012-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Pergolesi: Sinfonia For Violoncello

Work length10:02

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Maria Pia De Vito (voice), François Couturier (piano), Anja Lechner (cello), Michele Rabbia (percussion)
Recorded: 2012-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Pergolesi: Chi disse ca la femmena

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Maria Pia De Vito (voice), François Couturier (piano), Anja Lechner (cello), Michele Rabbia (percussion)
Recorded: 2012-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Pergolesi: Tre giorni son che Nina

Work length8:43

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Maria Pia De Vito (voice), François Couturier (piano), Anja Lechner (cello), Michele Rabbia (percussion)
Recorded: 2012-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Maria Pia De Vito, François Couturier, Anja Lechner, Michele Rabbia: Fremente

Work length3:13

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Maria Pia De Vito (voice), François Couturier (piano), Anja Lechner (cello), Michele Rabbia (percussion)
Recorded: 2012-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Maria Pia De Vito, Michele Rabbia: In compagnia d'amore I

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Maria Pia De Vito (voice), François Couturier (piano), Anja Lechner (cello), Michele Rabbia (percussion)
Recorded: 2012-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

François Couturier, Anja Lechner, Michele Rabbia: In compagnia d'amore II

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Maria Pia De Vito (voice), François Couturier (piano), Anja Lechner (cello), Michele Rabbia (percussion)
Recorded: 2012-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Couturier: Dolente

Work length7:18

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Maria Pia De Vito (voice), François Couturier (piano), Anja Lechner (cello), Michele Rabbia (percussion)
Recorded: 2012-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

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A project paying tribute to 18th century composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), Il Pergolese presents new arrangements and improvisations inspired by opera and sacred music. Singer Maria Pia De Vito, pianist François Couturier, cellist Anja Lechner and percussionist Michele Rabbia also consider Pergolesi’s relationship to the art music and the popular music of Naples from a contemporary perspective.

The text of the Stabat Mater - translated into Neapolitan by Maria Pia De Vito - and the opera arias, transformed into songs and vivid narrative, open frames providing the key to reinterpreting Pergolesi. François Couturier’s arrangements widen Pergolesi’s structures, offering space for improvisational interaction. But this is a real group project, a discourse among acoustic sounds, with rhythms of drums and metals, and sampled and real-time electronics. Sound textures grow dense with the richness of instrumental counterpoint or are set free in electronic soundscapes and along coloristic, percussive lines, as cello becomes voice or voice becomes an instrument.

The project was commissioned by the Festival Pergolesi-Spontini of Jesi in 2011, and the improvisational component ensures that each performance of Il Pergolese is unique. The present interpretation was recorded in Lugano in December 2012, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Singer Maria Pia De Vito makes her ECM debut with Il Pergolese. She has long been active in improvisation and jazz with musical partners including John Taylor, Ralph Towner, Rita Marcatouli, Norma Winstone, Steve Swallow, Paolo Fresu, Gianluigi Trovesi, Colin Towns and many more. Musical research, exploring beneath the work’s surfaces, has been a key element of her performances, whether the music has been jazz of the American songbook, idiosyncratic Neapolitan vocal music (De Vito is a native of Naples), adaptations of Monteverdi with Bruno Tommaso or, as here, Pergolesi as an improvisational resource.

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Early Music Today

If you liked Uri Caine’s updating of the Goldbergs, you should enjoy ‘Il Pergolese’, a homage to Pergolesi that reimagines his music in the context of contemporary improvisation. Melodic lines and fragments, taken chiefly from his Stabat Mater and opera arias, float through abstract soundscapes, where they are lovingly reshaped by restrained yet artful group interplay…a beautifully conceived and executed project.

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