TAPE 1
THE SPRING OF LOVE - The Troubadours, 12th-13th centuries
Ara lausatz (anonymous) - 2:16 G. Zuchetto P. Brient J. Khoudir
DANCE, DANCE! - Songs and Sounds in Medieval Sicily
Carnival Song (trans. Salemi) - 6:58 Al Quantarah
CONCERTS AND FOLLIES IN PERGOLESI'S TIME
Concerto in G minor for two cellos, strings, and continuo, RV 531, allegro (A. Vivaldi) - 3:18 I Musici
ICONS OF MUSIC
Sonata No. 1 - The Annunciation in D minor (H.I.F.v. Biber) - 6:45
fonè Ensemble - M. Fornaciari L. Colonna E. Merlini
J.S. BACH SONATAS AND PARTITAS
Sonata II for Solo Violin, BWV 1003 - Fugue (J.S. Bach) - 8.14
Salvatore Accardo
Conceived, recorded, and produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci
Equipment: Neumann U47, U48, M49 tube microphones
Microphone preamplifiers: Signoricci
Line, microphone, and power cables: Signoricci
I wanted to connect, around the title Forte Fortissimo, pieces of music with a common denominator: strong emotions, contradictions, passions, grandeur, exaggeration, dynamism, virility. Pieces that will enter you straight into your soul, pure adrenaline that will charge you in unison. A crescendo of energy that only great music can give us. I recorded each song in a different location each time: a basilica, a castle, a cathedral, a parish church, a chapel, another cathedral, an auditorium, a music hall, a twentieth-century theater, a modern church, a nineteenth-century theater, another nineteenth-century theater, a historic building.
So many historic places, so many acoustics, so many emotions [Giulio Cesare Ricci]
