30 July @ 8.30pm (UK time) (9.30pm Italy time)
Ravenna Festival
Basilica di San Vitale
O Oriens
The sacred music by Matteo da Perugia and the motets from the Cyprus Code (XV sec.)
La fonte musica
conductor and lute Michele Pasotti
Francesca Cassinari soprano
Alena Dantcheva soprano
Gianluca Ferrarini tenor
Massimo Altieri tenor
Efix Puleo viella da braccio
Teodoro Baù viella da gamba
Nathaniel Wood trombone
Ermes Giussani trombone
Basilica di San Vitale (Ravenna)
O Oriens
The sacred music by Matteo da Perugia
The motets from the Cyprus Code (XV sec.)
La fonte musica ensemble
Michele Pasotti conductor and lute
Francesca Cassinari soprano
Alena Dantcheva soprano
Gianluca Ferrarini tenor
Massimo Altieri tenor
Efix Puleo vielle (arm)
Teodoro Baù vielle (viella da gamba)
Nathaniel Wood trombone
Ermes Giussani trombone
O Oriens is one of seven antiphones of the Advent, sang as motets, from the Cyprus Code. A 15th century manuscript, the Code is a collection of anonymous music influenced by the French Ars Nova – the court was French-Cypriot before the Venetians conquered the island in 1489.The piece is an imaginary dialogue between the anonymous composers of Cyprus and Matteo da Perugia, who was the first magister capellae in Milan’s Duomo Cathedral.
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