Cantà in Cumpagnia - Camerata Figarella

On one side, four wind instruments at the crossroads of ancient and modern worlds: William Dongois on the cornett, heir to the gallery of Saint Mark's in Venice; Stefan Legée on the sackbut; Fausto Sierakowski, specialist in the art of Ottoman maqam; and Ange Sierakowski, clarinetist in a prestigious Berlin orchestra. Together, they reinvest the ancient art of diminution, this improvised ornamentation that transforms melodic and polyphonic material. On the other, four voices: Italian baritone Enea Sorini, specialist in Renaissance singing of Umbria and Tuscany, and three traditional Corsican singers, Jean-Étienne Langianni, Michel Paoli and Daniel Gonet, living bearers of the traditions of paghjella and cantu sacru. Between these two choirs, no imitation: a dialogue. The pre-baroque madrigal and Tuscan frottola respond to the polyphony of Corsican Holy Week; Ottoman modal improvisation slips into the silences of sacred song and learned repertoire of the sixteenth century. This is the landscape that Camerata Figarella wishes to let us hear here. Following, as a guiding thread, that of the Renaissance in its original sense, the fruit of perpetual renewal, with ancestral roots, like a fragile Anthemis flower slipping between old stone slabs, witnesses to too many wounds that spring will have to heal.