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Adonia: 16th-Century Italian Music to Lament a Fallen God | Passacaille PAS1112

Adonia: 16th-Century Italian Music to Lament a Fallen God

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Label: Passacaille

Cat No: PAS1112

Barcode: 5425004841124

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 4th March 2022

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Through centuries of re-telling the myth of Venus and Adonis, the ritualistic Adonia festival held in ancient Athens has remained a part of the story which fascinated a number of literary figures during the Italian Renaissance. The ritual was both a lamentation of love cruelly stolen by the hands of fate, and a feverish "final dance" with all of life's short- lived pleasures and desires.

The ensemble Phaedrus partakes in an experimental musical staging of the Venus and Adonis mythos as transmitted during the Italian Renaissance by setting extracts of Marino's 1623 Adone and from Girolamo Parabosco's La favola d'Adone, published in 1545, to early frottole music.

Phaedrus surrounds these newly arranged frottole with instrumental music inspired by the tragic life of Adonis.

Elevating the voice with traverso consort and lute, Adonia aims to find points of commonality between historical aesthetics and contemporary experiences of love, amorality, and ecstatic bereavement.

Phaedrus:
- Miriam Trevisian (voice, percussion)
- Darina Ablogina (Renaissance flute)
- Luiz Martínez Pueyo (Renaissance flute)
- Charlotte Schneider (Renaissance flute)
- Mara Winter (Renaissance flute, artistic direction)
- Bor Zuljan (Renaissance lute)
- Clara de Asís (percussion)

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