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Geoffroy Jourdain, conductor; Gesualdo / Rossi / Vicentino / Verunelli u. a.

The French conductor Geoffroy Jourdain has compiled a very special programme for the vocal ensemble Les Cris de Paris which is being performed for the first time in Germany at the Musikfest Berlin. The singers explore the characteristic “strange harmonies” of Late Renaissance music.


What do people perceive when music deviates from a normality with which we are no longer familiar? How do they relate for example to the microtonal pieces by Nicola Vicentino who divided the octave into 31 notes on the basis of Ancient Greek music? In “La strana armonia d’amore”, madrigals by Vicentino, Carlo Gesualdo, Sigismondo d’India and Michelangelo Rossi are interspersed by musical sequences by the Italian composer Francesca Verunelli who adheres to the model of the Renaissance musician in her work „VicentinoOo“.


La strana armonia d’amore

Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575 – 1647)

Toccata di durezze e ligature

Sigismondo d’India (1582 – 1629)

Strana armonia d’amore (2 parts)

Hettore Della Marra (um 1570 – 1634)

Misero che farò

Michelangelo Rossi (um 1601 – 1656)

Per non mi dir ch’io moia

O miseria d'amante

Moribondo mio pianto

Scipione Lacorcia (um 1585 – um 1620)

Ahi, tu piangi, mia vita! / Mirami il volto pur

Carlo Gesualdo (1566 – 1613)

Io pur respiro

S’io non miro, non moro 

Moro, lasso, al mio duolo

Cipriano de Rore (1515/16 – 1565)

Calami sonum ferentes 

Francesca Verunelli (*1979)

VicentinoOo I, II, III, IV, V

Nicola Vicentino (1511 – 1576)

Musica prisca caput 

Madonna, il poco dolce

Pomponio Nenna (1556 – 1608)

La mia doglia s’avanza

Ecco ò mia dolce pena

Luzzasco Luzzaschi (um 1545 – 1607)

Quivi sospiri pianti et altri guai




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19:10, Southern foyer

Work introduction
Participating artists
Les Cris de Paris
Geoffroy Jourdain
Dates
September 2025
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