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“Il Fasolo” from Utrecht

Program: #03-07   Air Date: Feb 17, 2003

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This month's concert from the 2002 Holland Festival of Early Music presents a Roman/Neopolitan carnival farce published in Venice through the mysterious Accademia degli incogniti by one or more composers simply known as "Il Fasolo" ("the Bean").

NOTE: These performances from the Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht 2002 are by the ensemble Le Poeme Harmonique directed by Vincent Dumestre.

They are supported in part by Radio Nederland and the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Jean-Francois Lattarico provides these observations:

How many composers await the discovery of one of their compositions so that we can identify them once and for all? In Venice, the city of masks, ambiguity was a virtue, as suggested by the name Accademia degli incogniti.

Most of the works in this concert are ascribed to a certain Il Fasolo ('the bean'). This name is surrounded by many uncertainties, and there may even be two composers with the same surname. But Il Fasolo, Giovanni Battista Fasolo and the composer Francesco Manelli may simply be one and the same person.

The three works on the programme, published in Rome in 1628, belong to the Roman-Neapolitan carnaval tradition, which employed figures from the commedia dell'arte.

Il Fasolo

Francesco Manelli 1594-1667 and/or Giovanni Battista Fasolo, ca.1600-na 1659:

  1. Bergamasca: La Barchetta passaggiera
  2. Lamento di Madama Lucia, con la riposta di Cola
  3. Chi non sà come Amor
  4. Son ruinato, appassionato
  5. Canzonetta: Sguado lusinghiero
  6. Madrigal: O dolorosa sorte
  7. Jacarà: Aria alla napolitana
  8. Serenata in lingua lombarda che fa Madonna Gola, à Messir Carnevale: Primo Interlocutore. L'altra nott'al far del giorn'
  9. Serenata in lingua lombarda che fa Madonna Gola, à Messir Carnevale: Madonna Gola. Al' me pias' i collumbott'
  10. Serenata in lingua lombarda che fa Madonna Gola, à Messir Carnevale: Baccho. Al me pias il vin' Alban'
  11. Serenata in lingua lombarda che fa Madonna Gola, à Messir Carnevale: Primo Interlocutore. Finiamla dunque
  12. Serenata in lingua lombarda che fa Madonna Gola, à Messir Carnevale: Choro. Mentre per bizzaria
  13. Serenata in lingua lombarda che fa Madonna Gola, à Messir Carnevale: Ballo di trè Zoppi. Alle danze ò voi Pastori
  14. Serenata in lingua lombarda che fa Madonna Gola, à Messir Carnevale: Sguazzata di Colasone. Sotto un ombroso Faggio
  15. Serenata in lingua lombarda che fa Madonna Gola, à Messir Carnevale: Non pensar Clori crudel
  16. Serenata in lingua lombarda che fa Madonna Gola, à Messir Carnevale: Morescha de Schiavi. Hor cantar più non volgiamo
  17. Ciaccona: Acceso mio core

Composer Info

Il Fasolo, Francesco Manelli 1594-1667, Giovanni Battista Fasolo, ca.1600-na 1659

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