Nuove Invenzioni

Albumbeschreibung

Far from trying to reproduce the sound atmospheres that could have existed (or not…) three centuries ago, the Concerto Stella Matutina ensemble and lutenist Rolf Lislevand have chosen to make use of the thousands of possibilities offered by a recording studio, mixing and microphones to build a set of unique sounds, probably non reproducible, but whose beauty precisely goes through the rebalancing of the various instruments. Incidentally, they don’t hesitate to painstakingly “arrange” some partitions from the Renaissance, like for example this Spagna from Francesco di Milano, revised and jazzified by Tomasz Stańko—and this with ancient instruments for the most part, a singular blend of genres and time periods. You can like or not these few Baroque/Renaissance/jazz blends, but the result is no less intriguing, and extraordinarily well-performed. But then in these ancient time, was it not the custom to systematically bring back to fashion all the musical works from bygone eras? Just see in this principle an extreme prolongation of the Baroque custom… © SM/Qobuz