The performers on this album adapted nearly all their diminution models from Silvestro Ganassi's treatise La Fontegara, deciding where and how to apply them to each composition.
Performer Biography
Le Concert Brisé, the ensemble on this recording, combines a common approach to historical sources with improvisation techniques drawn from period treatises, jazz, and folk music.
Compositional Technique
The art of diminution, central to this album, involves performers elaborating a single written note into two to thirty-two notes, varying rhythms and melodic contours.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Silvestro Ganassi's treatise La Fontegara aimed to teach instrumentalists to imitate the human voice, providing advice on breathing, articulation, and fingerings.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in the Église de Longchaumois between September 4 and 8, 2017.
Composer Biography
Silvestro Ganassi, a prominent 16th-century Venetian musician and author of the treatise La Fontegara, was also a painter, though none of his paintings have survived.
Album & Artwork
The album's cover illustration is a detail from 'The attributes of music' by Giorgio da Castelfranco detto Giorgione, painted around 1500-1505.
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