de Vito

The album Il Misantropo Felice was written mainly between 1999 and 2000 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The first theme of music was composed in 1997 and it was used as main pattern for other sections. A very small part was written in 2001 as well. The orchestration has undergone a number of changes, the last of which between 2009 and 2010, and this was used for the current recording. Without being too descriptive, the composition, consisting of eight parts, talks about the short and hypertrophic afternoon dream of a man, from the moment he falls asleep up to his cathartic awakening. It is a Traumarbeit where the sounds perceived from the external world are mingled with private memories, and whose contents become a dreamlike journey, at the end of which the reconciliation with the world is accomplished.

Più di ogni altro segno, le parole accompagnano ogni nostra esperienza: le più personali e private e le più pubbliche, le più abituali e le creazioni più straordinarie della fantasia e del pensiero scientifico. Questo libro ci introduce a capire radici, modi, effetti del nostro parlare e, forse, a controllarlo meglio. …

The Florentine Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1682-1732) was the finest theorbo player in early 18th-century Europe, and spent almost his entire career at the Habsburg court in Vienna. He composed sacred and secular vocal works special enough to warrant the attention of both Bach and Handel. Conti's oratorio David, a setting of a dramatic libretto by Apostolo Zeno, was first performed at Vienna in March 1724. The cast of singers included the tenor Francesco Borosini, soon afterwards a principal cast member for Handel in Tamerlano and Rodelinda (Conti's writing for Borosini descends to a low G, hence the decision here to cast baritone Furio Zanasi as Saul).