Berit Norbakken Solmund Nysta - Donna Barbara - Songs Of Barbara Strozzi [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.This album documents some of our meetings with Barbara Strozzi. In her time, and long after her death, Barbara Strozzi was a legendary performer, something that in her case has been highlighted far more than among her male colleagues. Why? In light of her extensive production and publishing activities, it seems almost absurd that she should not be considered a composer on par with any-one else, and one wonders if this too has to do with gender, if being a singer is so much less controversial for a woman than being a com-poser, that it has almost functioned as a 'mitigating circumstance'?r

As an artist, you have more direct connection to the music compared to experiencing it through someone else's rendition. The fact that Barbara Strozzi wrote so much of her music with her own performances in mind, means that her pieces be-come places or spaces where one can immerse oneself in another (her?) way of making music. In these spaces, Barbara's authority as a performer, and originator, of the music becomes avail-able to us as co-creators today.

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The freedom and flexibility that come from accompanying oneself x96 as Barbara did x96 has been a model for our work in the duo format. This involves a coherence that gives us the freedom for spontaneous turns and variations along the way in the music, so that each performance becomes different. The continuous practice x96singing and playing the music again and again, with openness to both planned and spontaneous variations, becomes more crucial to the audible result than one specific interpretation of each piece as a composition.

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'The Norwegian duo's subtle poeticism and harmonic finesse suggest that less can be more.' x96 Gramophone

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'Berit Norbakken (soprano) and Solmund Nystabakk (lutes) aim to capture the style of Strozzi's own performances in which she would have accompanied herself. To this end, the Norwegian duo has nurtured a particularly close rapport between voice and lute, and the ensemble between the two is impeccable.' x96 BBC Music Magazine (4 stars)

Barbara Strozzi: L'Eraclito Amoroso

L'Amante Bugiardo

L'Amante Consolato

Il Romeo

La Fanciuletta Semplice

Per un Bacio

Tra Le Speranze E'l Timor

L'Amante Segreto

Lilla Crudele Ad Onta D'Amore

Begl'occhi

Chiamata A Nuovi Amori

Non Volete Ch'io Mi Dolga?

Lagrime mie, Lamento

Amor Dormiglione

Barbara Strozzi: L'Eraclito Amoroso

L'Amante Bugiardo

L'Amante Consolato

Il Romeo

La Fanciuletta Semplice

Per un Bacio

Tra Le Speranze E'l Timor

L'Amante Segreto

Lilla Crudele Ad Onta D'Amore

Begl'occhi

Chiamata A Nuovi Amori

Non Volete Ch'io Mi Dolga?

Lagrime mie, Lamento

Amor Dormiglione

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