- Valentina Fin: voice
- Virginia Sutera: violin
- Francesco Chiapperini: bass clarinet
- Andrea Grossi: double bass
Italian Mottetto is a quartet with a jazz background that proposes a revisitation of some of the compositions of Giulio Caccini, a 17th century composer and singer in the service of the Medici court.
Caccini introduced the so-called “representative style”: a way of singing that could give even more freedom to the words – often written by his friend the poet Gabriello Chiabera.
The new way of singing songs introduced by Caccini marks the transition, with the opera “Le Nuovi Musiche”, from the polyphonic to the monodic madrigal. The quartet, classic in formation and with a declared desire to draw on the sounds and performance methods of chamber music, wants to pay homage to the Italian composer, reworking his material t make his music even more descriptive – using dialogues between the three instruments – keeping the vocal line unchanged. The result is a bridge between two worlds, the original one of the Italian composer and the improvisational one that bends to the will of seventeenth-century music. a way of singing that could give even more freedom to the words – often written by his friend the poet Gabriello Chiabera.
The new way of singing songs introduced by Caccini marks the transition, with the opera “Le Nuovi Musiche”, from the polyphonic to the monodic madrigal.
The quartet, classic in formation and with a declared desire to draw on the sounds and performance methods of chamber music, wants to pay homage to the Italian composer, reworking his material to make his music even more descriptive – using dialogues between the three instruments – keeping the vocal line unchanged. The result is a bridge between two worlds, the original of the Italian composer and the improvisational one that bends to the will of seventeenth-century music.