Ensemble San Felice

The Ensemble San Felice Is A Vocal And Instrumental Group Based In Florence And Conducted By Federico Bardazzi.
The Repertoire Of The Ensemble Is Very Wide They Performed 17th Century Music In Many Festivals In Italy And Abroad In Particular Rarely Performed Pieces By Marco Da Gagliano Frescobaldi Carissimi Buxtehude Jeronimo De Carrion And François Couperin. Of Particular Interest From This Point Of View Are The First Modern Performances By The Ensemble In Association With The Musicologist Giuseppe Collisani Of The Vespro Di Santa Cecilia By Francesco Maria Stiava And The Sonatas For Two Violins And Bass By Pietro Antonio Franchi Two Important Tuscan Baroque Composers.
The Performances By The Ensemble Most Appreciated By Audiences And Critics Are A New Version Of Mozart's Requiem The Program "Magnificat" Organised With The Help Of The European Union "El Cant De La Sibilla" A Program Of Medieval Catalan Music They Presented At The Festival Dei Due Mondi In Spoleto "Nigra Sum Sed Formosa" Cantigas De Santa Maria And "Quem Queritis" A Medieval Liturgical Drama Based On Florentine Codes.
Arvo Pärt's Music Is Of Particular Interest To The Ensemble San Felice And They Perform The Program "Magnificat" Based On "Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen" And The "Berliner Messe" Integrated With Parts Of The Proprio In Gregorian Chant. In The Last Few Years The Group Has Continued Its Research Into Gregorian Chant From A Philological And Semiological Point Of View. "In-Canto Gregoriano" The International Meetings Held Annually In Florence In Association With The Capitolo Metropolitano Fiorentino And Aiscgre Associazione Internazionale Studi Di Canto Gregoriano Are A Result Of This And Are Usually Frequented By The Most Important Musicians In This Field Such As Nino Albarosa Johannes Berchmans Göschl And Daniel Saulnier. The Ensemble Now Performs Gregorian Works With Male Female And Mixed Voices.
The Ensemble San Felice Was Directed By Alan Curtis In Jacopo Peri's Euridice And By Marco Balderi In Giacomo Carissimi's Oratorios.
Amongst The Recordings By The Ensemble San Felice With Federico Bardazzi Conductor There Are The Six German Motets By Johann Sebastian Bach The First Recording Ever Of The "Messa Sopra L'aria Di Fiorenza" By Girolamo Frescobaldi Bongiovanni The Cantigas De Santa Maria By Alfonso X "Nigra Sum Sed Formosa" Bongiovanni The Medieval Florentine Liturgical Drama "Quem Queritis?" Tactus They Performed On Numerous Tours In Italy And Abroad. Their Concerts And CDs Have Been Broadcast By Rai Italian State Radio The Swiss German Polish Radio And Television And By The BBC. read less