Composer: Antonio Zacara da Teramo
Performer: Michele Pasotti, Francesca Cassinari, Alena Dantcheva, Gianluca Ferrarini, Massimo Altieri, Mauro Borgioni, Elena Carzaniga
Orchestra: La Fonte Musica
Conductor: Michele Pasotti
Number of Discs: 4
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA640
Release: 2021
Size: 3.73 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. Gloria (I)
02. Credo (II)
03. Ave Maris Stella (Instrumental)
04. Gloria “Anglicana”
05. Credo “du Vilage”
06. Constantia (Instrumental)
07. Gloria “Gloria laus honor”
08. Credo (III)
09. Gloria “Ad ongni vento”
10. Credo (I)
11. Untitled (Instrumental)
12. Gloria “Micinella”
13. Credo “Cursor”
CD 02
01. Gloria “Rosetta”
02. Credo “Scabioso”
03. D”amor languire
04. Rosetta (Instrumental)
05. Rosetta (II)
06. Deducto sey (I)
07. Nostra Avocata
08. Deducto sey (II) (instrumental)
09. Un fior gentil
10. Gloria “Fior gentil”
11. Deus deorum Pluto
12. Credo “Deus deorum”
CD 03
01. Cacciando per gustar / Ay cinci, ay toppi
02. Nel cucul
03. Amor né tossa
04. Deducto sey (III) (Instrumental improvisation)
05. Plorans ploravi
06. Le temps verrà
07. Nuda non era
08. Ad ogne vento
09. Rosetta (III) (Instrumental)
10. State a Dio
11. Benché lontan
12. Non voler, donna
13. Ciaramella
CD 04
01. Sumite karissimi
02. Movit’a pietade
03. Viver ne puis (Instrumental)
04. Sol mi trafigge
05. Aymè per tutto l’or
06. Spesso, Fortuna
07. Dime, Fortuna
08. Donna poss’io sperare
09. Dicovi per certança
10. Sol mi trafigge (Instrumental)
11. Ferito già
12. Be’llo sa Dio
In this recording entitled “Enigma Fortuna”, the ensemble La Fonte Musica, directed by Michele Pasotti, aims to shed light on the mysterious and eccentric personality of Antonio Zacara da Teramo (1355-1416). A contemporary of Boccaccio, Donatello and Brunelleschi, this composer from the Abruzzi region could almost be likened to a sort of musical Hieronymus Bosch, for the texts he set to music conjure up a “topsy-turvy universe” where the obscene, the imaginary and the grotesque go hand in hand. In his ballata Amor ne tossa, he writes “Let him understand me who can, for I understand myself”, foreshadowing the proud egotism of the Romantic artists who were to come 400 years after him.
With this set presenting the world premiere of Zacara’s complete works, La Fonte Musica offers us an initial approach to understanding his music. And thereby, through the timeless character of art, to understanding a so-called “renascent” era that seems as “topsy-turvy” as our own.