Adriano Banchieri - Barca di Venezia per Padova
24 tracks | MP3 192 Kbps | 1 RAR file 83Mb
24 tracks | MP3 192 Kbps | 1 RAR file 83Mb
Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634), the «enfant terrible» of Italian polyphonic music, produced a real masterpiece with his «Barca di Venetia per Padova» («Venetian Boat bound for Padua»). This is true both front the point of view of the wit and liveliness of the text and subject, and with regard to the musical devices and technique employed. The composer imagines that persons from diferent parts of Italy, plus a German, are aboard this boat. Each of them speaks in his own dialect, the diferences in character also being fairly well marked.(…)