Colista: Cantatas & Arias Ensemble Giardino di Delizie & Ewa Anna Augustynowicz

• Lelio Colista (1629 - 1680): Del vasto tuo impero:
• 1Colista: Del vasto tuo impero: I. Sinfonia01:00
• 2Colista: Del vasto tuo impero: II. Del vasto tuo impero01:17
• 3Colista: Del vasto tuo impero: III. Aurette soavi01:56
• 4Colista: Del vasto tuo impero: IV. Sù dunque mio core si calchino l'onde02:08
• 5Colista: Del vasto tuo impero: V. Ma gelido timore01:37
• 6Colista: Del vasto tuo impero: VI. Crudi mostri d'impietà01:11
• 7Colista: Del vasto tuo impero: VII. Oh si crudele il vento01:09
• 8Colista: Del vasto tuo impero: VIII. di quest'onde che co' pianti01:37
• 9Colista: Del vasto tuo impero: IX. Quel nocchier che le tempeste02:01
• 10Colista: Del vasto tuo impero: X. Non ha il mar fede02:35
• Questa vita è sempre in guerra:
• 11Colista: Questa vita è sempre in guerra08:05
• Dimmi quando amore indegno:
• 12Colista: Dimmi quando amore indegno07:15
• Doletevi di voi:
• 13Colista: Doletevi di voi06:20
• Europa rapita:
• 14Colista: Europa rapita: I. Era già l'alba01:04
• 15Colista: Europa rapita: II. Aure placide01:54
• 16Colista: Europa rapita: III. Mentre cosi dicea02:16
• 17Colista: Europa rapita: IV. Stolta Europa e tù t'affidi00:40
• 18Colista: Europa rapita: V. Sù i tuoi campi00:36
• 19Colista: Europa rapita: VI. Stolta Europa e tu non temi01:55
• Che tante catene:
• 20Colista: Che tante catene: I. Cha tante catene02:04
• 21Colista: Che tante catene: II. Molti haverne03:29
• 22Colista: Che tante catene: III. Un goderne03:13
• 23Colista: Che tante catene: IV. E cangiar spesso04:58
• Total Runtime01:00:20

Info for Colista: Cantatas & Arias

Dramatic secular cantatas from the early Italian Baroque, revived for the first time in the modern age by an acclaimed and enterprising early-music ensemble.

‘This is a album well worth obtaining,’ reported Fanfare of the previous Colista album by Ensemble Giardino di Delizie on Brilliant Classics (96033). Recorded for the first time complete, the trio sinfonias gathered there are ‘a collection of fine works that seem to foreshadow Corelli almost half a century later. Of course, much of the ability to make these works come alive is due to the Giardino de Delizie under that capable direction of violinist Ewa Augustynowicz… The sound is extremely good and live.’

The ambitions of the ensemble now extend further still, into the entirely unknown vocal output of this important figure from 17th-century Rome. Born in 1629 to a scribe for the papal Curia, Lelio Costa demonstrated musical and theatrical talent in childhood and soon won the admiration of his contemporaries as both a performer and composer; one of them called him ‘Lelio Amato’. He rose effortlessly through the ranks of the Papal court, becoming in time the equivalent of the Keeper of Pictures. and theatrical talent in childhood and soon won the admiration of his contemporaries as both a performer and composer; one of them called him ‘Lelio Amato’. He rose effortlessly through the ranks of the Papal court, becoming in time the equivalent of the Keeper of Pictures. Colista’s sacred music has entirely disappeared, but ten secular cantatas survive, and six are presented here. They revolve around the conventional theme (for such works) of lost and frustrated love in pastoral and marine contexts: doleful shepherds and fishermen, inconstant shepherdesses and poor Europa, faced with appearance of Jupiter as a bull, in Europa rapita.

Colista proves himself a master of dramatic and picturesque imagery to illustrate his texts, as well as underscoring them with inventive counterpoint, much varied in texture between light and dense according to the context. The result is a significant addition to any library of Baroque vocal works, performed with a full understanding of the required style.

Ensemble Giardino di Delizie
Paola Valentina Molinari, soprano
Joanna Klisowska, soprano
Massimo Altieri, tenor
Andrés Montilla-Acurero, tenor-alto
Guglielmo Buonsanti, bass
Ewa Anna Augustynowicz, baroque violin & artistic director

The Ensemble Giardino di Delizie
is a Roman Baroque Ensemble and was founded in 2014 by its artistic director Ewa Anna Augustynowicz, PhD. The ensemble is a collective of Polish, Italian and Eastern European musicians and has a varying structure from string duets to small chamber orchestra and its musicians specialized with internationally renowned masters, such as Enrico Onofri, Marco Ceccato, Enrico Gatti, Andrea Coen, Giovanni Togni, Dmitry Sinkowsky, Amandine Beyer, Marco Testori. Franco Pavan etc. In addition to the high level of training and specialization, the members of the group work regularly with different ensembles including Les Eléments, Divino Sospiro, Capella Cracoviensis, Accademia Montis Regalis, Europa Galante, Arianna Art Ensemble, Collegium Pro Musica, Quatuor Mosaiques, Concerto Romano, Accordone and Pomo d'Oro.

Alongside the musical activity, the ensemble also conducts research in the field of musicology with particular regard to the Roman and Polish Baroque repertoire, rediscovering forgotten authors and trying to draw bridge between these two countries. Due to its unique binational character, the ensemble is particularly interested in the peculiarities of their own musical languages. The musicians are strongly convinced of the need of “saper ben parlare per ben suonare”, thus their research starts with a proper phonetic analysis of each langugaes to make them present in the execution and interpretation of the musical pieces. Hence, their performances are rich in sweet tones of Italian Corellian passages on the one side and and vigorous and lively sounds of the Polish dances on the other side. The ensemble’s performances, particularly intense and exciting, are in fact the result of extensive historical surveys to rediscover masterpieces of Italian composers who have had the center of its activities in the Rome of Alessandro Stradella, Arcangelo Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti during the long poignant and bright sunset of the Roman polyphonic style and those of Polish and Italian composers such as Marcin Mielczewski, Adam Jarzebski, Tarquinio Merula who had their centre of activity at the court of the Polish kings.

The ensemble is based in Rome and since its foundation pursued its activity in important institutions such as the Circle of the Armed Forces at the Ministry of Defence in Rome, Umberto Theatre, the Polish Church of St. Stanislaus in Rome, different cultural associations and others. The group participated in festivals such as the Festival of Music Rome; Almisonis Melos Chivasso, Turin; Musica Antica a San Rufo, Rieti; Sulle Ombre del Cusanino Filottrano, Marche; Santa Rita Basilica of Cascia and Concerti di Campagna, Monte Compatri. In August 2016 the ensemble performed with a great success at two important European festivals: the BRQ Vantaa Music Festival (Helsinki) and the Oude Musik Festival (Utrecht). In February 2017 the ensemble went on tournee in Poland giving concerts as a special guest at the Schola Cantorum Early Music Festival in Kalisz, at the Wilanow Palace in Warsaw and for the Societa Dante Alighieri in Katowice. In August 2017 the ensemble played with a great succes at the festival Barok na Spiszu in Poland. In 2018 Giardino di Delizie performed Polish Baroque music in various occasions celebrating 100 anniversary of the Polish independence (Turin University, Societa’ del Giardino in Milan, Museum of Instruments in Rome). In December 2018 the ensemble played in Naples for the concert series organized by Centro della Pietà de’ Turchini. The ensemble has been invited to perform during the Festival de Música Antiga dels Pirineus in Spain in 2019.

Recently, as a result of intense musicological research, the ensemble recorded its first CD for Brilliant Classics with 10 Triosonatas by Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, a still quite unknown Roman Baroque composer. It is the first modern recording of all these sonatas and Carlo Ambrogio Lonati and Roman composers are in focus of ensemble's musicological survey. In April 2019 the group has recorded its second CD, this time of the 17th century Polish Baroque Composers. This CD should be published by Brilliant Classics at the beginning of 2020. The group is already working its 3d CD with never recorded music to be recorded in the Autumn 2019. The musicians of the Giardino di Delizie perform their repertoire on historical instruments, copies of important Italian manufacturers.

Booklet for Colista: Cantatas & Arias