Thu Jul 27 12:00

Constantinople: Da Vinci’s Bridge

500 years after Da Vinci’s death, Constantinople presents a musical reconstruction of Da Vinci’s Bridge, creating – with music – the bridge Leonardo Da Vinci designed for the city of Constantinople that was never built. Connecting East and West, with Persia and the Ottoman Empire on one side and Renaissance Italy on the other, the programme draws musical works from 16th- and 17th-century manuscripts found in the national libraries of Istanbul and Florence.

Constantinople aims to encourage cross-cultural music making and exchanges among artists from around the world. Since its founding, the ensemble promotes the creation of new works that include musical elements of diverse musical traditions. Says Constantinople, “The territory to explore is infinite…we make migration and the mixing of cultures our territory.” Tenor Marco Beasley, a leading figure in Renaissance music, joins Constantinople’s soloists, under the direction of Kiya Tabassian, to immerse us in the imaginary and audacious world of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings.

Programme

Agha Mo’men (16th century): Kuh-Pâreh

Bartolomeo Tromboncino (1470 – after 1534): Non val acqua al mio gran foco

Anonymous (16th century): Staralla ben cussì

Kiya Tabassian (b. 1976): Parvâz

Anonymous (16th century): Pan de miglio caldo

Ambrogio Dalza (? – 1508): Saltarello & Piva (from Intabolatura de lauto, libro quarto)

Anonymous (15th century): Sera ne lo cor mio

Bartolomeo Tromboncino / Kiya Tabassian: Tu dormi / Rouz o Shab
(additional lyrics by Marco Beasley / Poem of Rumi)

Anonymous (15th century): So stato nel inferno

Anonymous (15th century): Semai Pire mey foroush

Anonymous (16th century): Cavalca Sinisbaldo

Anonymous (16th century): Hijaz Semai

Gian Piero Alloisio (b. 1956): Noi che semper naveghemmo (after a poem by Anonimo Genovese )

Persian Anonymous (16th century): Golestân

 

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