Programs - Janas Ensemble

beauty, sacredness and passion in the Spanish kingdom

Hermosuras means beauties.
Beauties in the art of the Siglo de Oro, the Golden Age in which Spain was ruling an empire "on which the sun never set". The sacred and secular beauty and passion mix and intersect with each other in a design in which the typical Spanish sense of religion and the popular liveliness became an extremely enchanting whole.

Music by: Sances, Del Vado, Selma, Gorzanis, de Bailly, Cabezón,
Duron, Montalbano, Cásseda, Valente.

Janas ensemble (four musicians)
Lia Serafini soprano
Janas ensemble
Paola Erdas, harpsichord and direction

Sances - Stabat Mater [192 Kbps (15.6 Mb)]

 

 

This concert would repropose a day, a musical and ideal day, in the marvellous Barberini mansion, animated by the music of Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger.
Kapsberger is now well known for his activity as theorbo and luthe virtuoso but an important part of his output is actually devoted to vocal music sacred and secular, mostly composed for the Barberini Family.
Maffeo Barberini, the future Pope Urbano VIII, wrote for him the lyrics “Poematia et Carmina” on which Kapsberger composed the music. The composer continued his relationschip with the family with the sixt book of Villanelle titled “Li Fiori”: a musical “hommage” to the rennomate garden built by Bernini and Borromini in the Quirinale Mansion of Francesco Barberini.

Music by: Kapsberger, Neri, Cavalli.

Janas ensemble
Paola Erdas, harpsichord, organ and direction
(7 musicians)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Passacaglia - from pasar calle,
to wander the city streets playing, singing, improvising on a musical base.

A travel backwards of centuries, through the changing geometries of the city nights, that do not have borders or sure planimetry, but only directions and privileged aggregation points. Music of the street that is born in an Italy dominated from Spain and gradually loses contact with its original destination to enter the palaces and the churches.
The doorways of the courts wide open to the city, continuously changing generator of new life.

soprano, 5 instruments

Janas ensemble
Paola Erdas, harpsichord and direction
(5/7 musicians)

Audio clip: Merula - OrCh'e'TempoDiDormire [192 Kbps (11,3 Mb)]

 

 

the songbooks of Monsignor Antonio Parragues di Castillejo

A musical journey through the rich memory of the Siglo de Oro in Italy, I Libri dell'Arcivescovo (The Songbooks of the Archbishop) start out from the discovery of the musical library of the erudite humanist Antonio Parragues di Castillejo, the Benedectine Archbishop of Cagliari (Sardinia).

Music by: Anon., Cristóbal de Morales (1500 ca.- 1553),
Orlando di Lasso (1532 - 1594), Jacob Arcadelt (1504 ca.- 1568),
Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594)

Janas ensemble
Paola Erdas, harpsichord and direction
(10 musicians)

photo: Arno Gisinger,
Atelier für Fotografie
und Visual History
Innsbruck, Austria.

 

 

 

A play of mirrors between Italian and French Baroque reflecting one another.
A programme where the pieces are divided into two groups, perfectly balanced.
At the centre an imaginary mirror creates a symmetry, the second half
rebounding towards the first, the harpsichord towards the cello,
Italy towards France - and vice versa.
Like two hands, mirror-like and interlocked. Gilles Cantagrel

Music by: Sances, Del Vado, Selma, Gorzanis, de Bailly, Cabezón,
Duron, Montalbano, Cásseda, Valente.

Janas trio
Lorenzo Cavasanti, recorder
Paola Erdas, harpsichord
Jorge Alberto Guerrero, cello

Audio clip: Marais-LesFoliesD'Espagne [192 Kbps (2.6 Mb)]

 

 

 

or sometimes the cover fits the book

Harlequin is on journey back from Katai but a bad adventure awaits. He is robbed of all his belongings and more importantly of his clothes. Wandering through a wild and inhospitable land he finds himself in a palace inhabited by two mysterious ladies who will wear him new clothes turning him into as many new characters. Constantly accompanied in his "tailoring adventure" by nostalgic musical references to his beloved Venice, will our hero find his way home? But most of all: will he find his clothes?

text and staging by Bepi Santuzzo

Music by: Antonio Vivaldi, Benedetto Marcello, Jean-Philippe Rameau,
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Adriano Banchieri, Nicolas-Antoine Lebegue
and
Venetian boat songs

Janas ensemble
Lia Serafini, soprano
Bepi Santuzzo, acting and dance
Paola Erdas, harpsichord

 

 

 

Quatrieme Chambre was the name of the hall in Versailles devoted to musical entertainment, the refined salon where the Bourbon kings used to pass their most authentic leisure hours listening their favourite chamber music.

Music by: Jean-Baptiste Senaillé, (1688-1730)
François Couperin (1668-1733)
Michel Corrette (1707-1795)
Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747)

Janas ensemble
Alessandro Ciccolini, violin
Paola Erdas, harpsichord
Jorge Alberto Guerrero, cello

 

 

 

 

Concerto, Sonate, Ciacona et Follia

Celebrating the 350th anniversary of Corelli's birth, and based on original
18th-century transcriptions from Op.6 and Op.3, a program dedicated
to the art of the most influential composer of the 17th century.

Lorenzo Cavasanti & Dorothee Oberlinger, recorders
Jorge Alberto Guerrero, cello
Paola Erdas, harpsichord

photo: © 2003
Helvio Faria www.helviofaria.com

Audio clip: QJ.Follia [192 Kbps (14.5 Mb)]

 

 

 

Designed for the first edition of the Baroque Festival of Pantelleria, a musical image of 17th-century, in which different styles are mixed together in a historical portrait on art and creation.

Music by: Marais, Caldara, Lebegue, Falconiero, Scipriani, Uccellini, Purcell, Merula

Lorenzo Cavasanti & Dorothee Oberlinger, recorders
Jorge Alberto Guerrero, cello
Paola Erdas, harpsichord

Audio clip: caldara.preludio [192 Kbps (2,3 Mb)]
Audio clip: caldara.allemanda [192 Kbps (2,4 Mb)]
Audio clip: caldara.corrente [192 Kbps (2,3 Mb)]
Audio clip: caldara.giga [192 Kbps (1,6 Mb)]