Monteverdi - Travestimenti
“Travestimenti” - Contrafacta, Intabulations & Motets
The “travestimento spirituale” (spiritual transformation or contrafact, the replacement of a composition’s profane text by a sacred one) was common practice in the moralizing climate of the counter Reformation in Italy during 16th and 17th centuries. Canzonets and madrigals from sources of the time were ‘converted’, ‘transformed’ or ‘reinterpreted’ and became ‘baptized’, clothed in sacred and pious texts.
In about 1640 an organist and active publisher in Breslau, Ambrosius Profe, brought out several volumes of sacred Italian music with the object of providing composers in Germanic lands with models and inspiration.
43 of the 140 compositions published in Profe’s anthologies are contrafacts and Claudio Monteverdi is the composer more represented.
IL PEGASO:
Mirko Guadagnini, Makoto Sakurada, Raffaele Giordani, tenors
Christian Immler, bass
Evangelina Mascardi, theorbo
Maurizio Croci, organ and artistic direction
