Arianna Savall
soprano and baroque triple harp
Petter Udland Johansen
tenor, hardingfele and cittern
Hirundo Maris
Miquel Angel Cordero
colascione and double bass
David Mayoral
percussions
06.08.2019 – 20:30
Palazzo Sangiovanni,
Alessano (LECCE)
‘IL VIAGGIO D’AMORE:’
LOVE TRAVELS ACROSS EUROPE
Spain and Catalonia
Anonymous 16 Jahr. / Francisco Salinas (1513-1590)
Rosa fresca (Arr. A. Savall & P.U. Johansen)
Anonymous (s. XVII)
Canarios
Traditional
La tarara (Tr. / Text F. García Lorca (1898-1936) / Arr. A. Savall)
La Dama d’Aragó (Tr. Catalan / Arr. A. Savall & P.U. Johansen)
Santiago de Murcia (ca.1682 — ca.1740)
Jotas (Arr. A. Savall)
Norway
Traditional
Ormen Lange (Tr. Norwegian / Arr. Petter U. Johansen)
Seksturen (Tr. Norwegian / Arr. Petter U.Johansen)
Nomadic love… (Miquel Martí i Pol (Text) / A. Savall (Music))
L’amor
Traditional
Oh Shenandoah (Tr. Chanty (USA) / Arr. P. U. Johansen)
Scotland
Traditional
Tha mi sgìth (Tr. Scottish / Arr. A. Savall)
Liebeslied der Fee (Tr. Scottish / Arr. A. Savall)
England
Traditional
Scarborough Fair (Tr. English / Arr. A. Savall, P.U. Johansen & M.Hell)
Switzerland
Traditional
Girometta (Tr. Ticino / Arr. A.Savall / P.U. Johansen)
Italy and Spain
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Si dolce é’l tormento, SV 332
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (ca.1626-ca.1667)
Tarantela (Arr. A. Savall)
Catalonia
Traditional
El Mariner (Tr. Catalan / Arr. A. Savall & P.U. Johansen)
Hirundo Maris
In 2009, Arianna Savall and Petter Udland Johansen founded the group Hirundo Maris, specializing in early music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, as well as their own compositions and early fusion. Their creative core is Mediterranean and Nordic music, the fruit of their extensive musical partnership. Like a migratory bird, they retrace the routes across seas and music that have linked Scandinavia with the Iberian Peninsula since time immemorial. Hirundo Maris regularly appears at numerous important festivals around Europe. With the programme ‘Il Viaggio d’amore’, presented this year at Muse Salentine, they pose a question that is as simple as it is transcendental, as topical as it is timeless : what is love like ? In their quest for answers they travel through around a dozen countries, among them Spain, Austria, Norway and Switzerland, finally ending up in Chile. They take with them a selection of instruments that is as varied as the music itself : the triple harp, which was actually invented in Italy in Monteverdi’s time, and made its way via France to England, where it was highly regarded not only by King Charles I but also, before long, by Scottish and Irish folk musicians; the cittern, a plucked instrument that was even played by the Reformer Martin Luther ; and the Hardanger fiddle, the most important instrument in Norwegian folk music, which features sympathetic strings in addition to its four bowed strings.