RESPIGHI SUITE
Ancient Airs and Dances
arranged for ensemble
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The Ancient Airs and Dances are a collection of free transcriptions from lute pieces from the 16th and 17th centuries, created by Ottorino Respighi and organized in three suites for different orchestral organism.
In 1917 Respighi composed the First Suite, in 1923 the Second Suite and in 1931 the Third Suite.
His wife Elsa picked them up and reorganized them all in 1937.
In our original arrangement the eight real parts that make up the ensemble try to reproduce all the orchestral colors designed by Respighi, with the aim of creating a fascinating synthesis between ensuring the presence of fundamental instruments for Respighi, such as harp and harpsichord, and the search for a new and modern sound, with the inclusion of accordion and bass tuba.
BARACCANO ORCHESTRA
conductor Giambattista Giocoli
violin Gabriele Bellu
flûte and piccolo Claudia Piga
bassoon Davide Braco
trumpet Luca Piazzi
harp Alice Caradente
accordion Raffaele Damen
harpsichord Chiara Cattani
bass tuba Gianluigi Paganelli
arrangement by
Fabio Codeluppi, Giambattista Giocoli e Filippo Mazzoli
RESPIGHI suite
Antiche Danze ed Arie per Liuto
arrangiate per ensemble
PRIMA SUITE
arrangiamenti Fabio Codeluppi
Simone Molinaro: Balletto detto "Il Conte Orlando" (1599)
Allegro moderato
Vincenzo Galilei: Gagliarda (155?)
Allegro marcato - Andantino mosso
Ignoto: Villanella (fine sec.XVI)
Andante cantabile
Ignoto: Passo mezzo e Mascherada (fine sec.XVI)
Allegro vivo - Vivacissimo
SECONDA SUITE
arrangiamenti Fabio Codeluppi
Fabrizio Caroso: Laura soave, Balletto con gagliarda,
saltarello e canario (1581)
Andantino - Allegro marcato - Andantino
Jean-Baptiste Besard: Danza rustica (1617)
Allegretto
Ignoto, con Marin Mersenne: Campanae parisienses - Aria (sec.XVII)
Andante mosso - Largo espressivo
Bernardo Gianoncelli detto Il Bernardello: Bergamasca (1650)
Allegro
TERZA SUITE
arrangiamenti Giambattista Giocoli e Filippo Mazzoli
Ignoto: Italiana (fine sec.XVI)
Andantino
Jean-Baptiste Besard: Arie di corte (sec.XVI)
Andante cantabile - Allegretto - Vivace
Lento con grande espressione
Allegro vivace - Vivacissimo - Andante cantabile
Ignoto: Siciliana (fine sec.XVI)
Andantino
Lodovico Roncalli: Passacaglia (1692)
Maestoso - Vivace
BARACCANO ORCHESTRA
The Baraccano Orchestra was born within the activities of the Theater of Baraccano in Bologna, where a production and research project on chamber music theater is carried out.
It was founded in 2013 and is directed by its artistic director Giambattista Giocoli.
The Orchestra has produced numerous musical theater shows, both independently and in co-production and collaboration with the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, BSMT productions and the University of Bologna.
Productions include: musicals A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim, the show Histoire du soldat by Igor Stravinskij, the projects All'Opera!, symphonies, intermezzos and overtures of the Italian Opera, and 4th Gustav Mahler, the Mahler's fourth symphony, arranged for chamber orchestra.
In 2017 the Orchestra realized the following project: Popular Songs, with soloist Cristina Zavalloni, a new Histoire du soldat with the voice of Ivano Marescotti and The Barber in comics, the Rossini's Barber of Sevilla with music, animation and Manga drawings of Tsukishiro Yuko, an internation coproduction with Japan.
In 2021 it will be the center of events of the Respighi project, a project on the musician and composer Ottorino Respighi and of Progetto Kafka. In 2022 it was the fulcrum of the PON VoltONE project on AIDA, a reduction of G. Verdi's Opera for ensemble and speaking voice. In 2022, with the RESPIGHI suite program, it toured the Czech Republic and Poland, in 2023 in Hungary and in 2024 in Croatia for the 70th edition of the Split Summer Festival.
GIAMBATTISTA GIOCOLI
Born in 1976 in Matera, initially a clarinetist, he studied clarinet in his hometown and later graduated from the Bologna Conservatory. As an instrumentalist he studies with Perrone, Quarenghi, Tirincanti, Pay and Carbonare, immediately starting an intense concert activity in Italy and abroad.
Performs recordings for Italian and foreign radio stations, recording various CDs of classical and contemporary music. For 10 years he collaborates with the lyrical and symphonic seasons of the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna with which he performs multiple tours in Italy and abroad.
He has collaborated with the FontanaMIX Contemporary Music Ensemble of Bologna and with the Sentieri Selvaggi of Milan ensemble, with a concert activity in Europe and Asia.
In 2013 he made his debut as a conductor in the production of American Musicals and in the same year he founded the Orchestra of the Baraccano, with which he produced chamber music theater projects and symphonic projects that he still toured. Since 2015 he has worked as a guest conductor with the Orchestra of the Toscanini Foundation in Parma and since 2017 with the Rossini Symphony Orchestra of Pesaro. In 2018 he also began working with the Lucana Orchestra Foundation and the Virtuosi of the Italian Opera.In 2022, with his Orchestra he toured Poland and the Czech Republic, in 2023 in Hungary and in 2024 in Croatia.He is the art director of the Teatro del Baraccano in Bologna and of the research and production project of musical theater ATTI SONORI in Bologna.
