Pasolini's Swan Song. Prima Prattica Ensemble - polyphonic concert

The concert is part of a series of cultural meetings, conferences and screenings revolving around the "Pasolini painter" exhibition at the Modern Art Gallery in Rome. In the Prima Prattica Ensemble concert program, three pieces composed on Pasolini's poetic texts and in world premiere at the GAM are presented, including some of the greatest masterpieces of the Renaissance “a cappella” vocal repertoire.

The Prima Prattica ensemble is a polyphonic group specialized in the sacred and profane Renaissance repertoire, which takes its name from the "old style" typical of the sixteenth-century school of composition. The ensemblewas born within the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome in 2014, from the desire to create a new Roman reality in the field of choral music.

Prima Prattica Ensemble

Soprano: Giulia Mariti

Alto: Martina Mariti

Tenors: Claudio Ferrara, Simone Vallini

Bass: Federico Fioretti

Composers: Claudio Ferrara, Giampiero Castagna e Giulia Mariti

PROGRAM

The religion of my time: poverty

- G. Mariti, Il glicine

- H. Purcell, Man that is born of a woman

- M. Flecha, La Bomba

- W. Byrd, Miserere

Time and death

- J. Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce cigno

- G.Castagna, Alba

- L. Marenzio, Crudele acerba inesorabil morte

- C. Gesualdo, Io tacerò

Flesh and sky: desire

- G.P. Da Palestrina: Ego sum panis vivus

- L. Marenzio: La bella ninfa mia

-  C. Ferrara: Senza di te tornavo

Photo credits: courtesy of Modern Art Gallery in Rome