Il Cembalo di Partenope - A Renaissance harpsichord tale Catalina Vicens

• Antonio Valente (fl. 1565–1580):
• 1Fantasia del primo tono06:38
• Vincenzo Capirola (1474 – after 1548):
• 2La villanella01:32
• Antonio Valente:
• 3Gagliarda napolitana02:53
• Antonio de Cabezón (ca. 1510–1566):
• 4Obra sobre cantus firmus03:57
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino (1470 – after 1534):
• 5Amor quando fioriva mia speme02:05
• Ranier (fl. early 16th ca.):
• 6Me lassera tu mo01:08
• Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl. 1508):
• 7Calata ala spagnola01:55
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino:
• 8Poi che volse la mia stella03:26
• Joan Ambrosio Dalza:
• 9Pavana alla ferrarese02:38
• Jacopo Fogliano (1468–1548):
• 10Ricerchare de Jacobo fogliano 01:26
• Marchetto Cara (ca. 1465–1525):
• 11Cantai mentre nel core01:40
• 12Per dolor mi bagno el viso03:47
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino:
• 13Stavasi amor01:32
• 14Che farala che dirala01:15
• Marco Antonio Cavazzoni (ca. 1490 – ca. 1560):
• 15Recercada di mã ca in bologna02:54
• M. A. Cavazzoni/Josquin (ca. 1452-1518):
• 16Plus ne regres (Plusieurs regretz) 02:43
• Claudio Veggio? (ca. 1510 – after 1543):
• 17Vi (Villano) recercada01:44
• Marco Antonio Cavazzoni:
• 18Madame vous aves mon cuor03:49
• C. Veggio (ca. 1510 – after 1543):
• 19Recercada per b quadro del primo tono05:35
• Claudin de Sermisy (ca. 1490–1562) / C. Veggio:
• 20Tant que vivray01:23
• Fabrizio Dentice (ca. 1539–1581):
• 21Volta de Spagna01:33
• Philippe de Monte (1521–1603) / A. Valente:
• 22Sortemplus disminuita (Sortez mes pleurs)03:34
• Adrian Willaert (ca. 1490–1562) / A. Valente:
• 23Chi la dirra (Qui la dira)03:10
• Antonio Valente (fl. 1565–1580):
• 24Recercata del primo tono04:16
• Total Runtime01:06:33

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This new album of harpsichordist Catalina Vicens is a unique, multifaceted musical and poetic project. First, it features the world’s oldest playable harpsichord, a priceless treasure that dwells today in the National Music Museum of Vermillion, SD. She plays music from Naples, Italy from around 1525, the year when the instrument that she plays was actually built in Naples. Secondly, Ms Vicens conceived an imaginary tale of the life and story of that very instrument, partly based on historical facts, partly on poetic inspiration emerging from her encounter with this priceless treasure of a historical harpsichord.

Catalina Vicens, Renaissance Harpsichord, Naples ca. 1525

Recorded 2015 at National Music Museum, Vermillion SD
Recorded by Jonas Niederstadt, Carpe Diem Records

Catalina Vicens
Catalina was born in Santiago de Chile. She began her piano studies as a young child and at the age of 18, she won a full scholarship to study harpsichord at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia with Lionel Party. After graduating from Curtis she continued her studies at the Musikhochschule Freiburg with Robert Hill and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel) with Andrea Marcon. At the latter institution, she pursued further graduate studies in Medieval Keyboards with Corina Marti and postgraduate studies in Contemporary Music with his- torical keyboards at the Musik Akademie Basel. Catalina has taken harpsichord masterclasses with Gustav Leonhardt, Jesper Christensen, Christophe Rousset and Mitzi Meyerson, amongst others. With her interest in historical percussions, she has studied with teachers such as Pedro Estevan, Michael Metzler, Philip Tarr and also studied Iranian percussion with Madjid Khaladj.

At a young age Catalina already began performing in venues like Kimmel Center (Philadelphia, USA), Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Teatro Municipal (São Paulo, Brazil), Theater Basel (Switzerland), Palace of the Arts (Budapest, Hungary), Semperoper (Dresden, Germany), and and she has taken part in radio broadcasts in the USA, Chile, Germany and Switzerland. She has performed under the direction of well-known conductors such as Gottfried von der Goltz, Andrea Marcon, MarioVidela, Joseph Silverstein, Otto-Werner Müller and Carlos Miguel Pietro.

In 2008 she won the 1st Prize at the International Historic Keyboards Competi- tion. “Fritz Neumeyer”, Germany. She has performed as a soloist in Europe, South America and the USA, and enjoys playing in several ensembles of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Contemporary music. Catalina has been invited to give lectures and master-classes in Central Europe, Great Britain, Scandinavia and South America.

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