Pomponio Nenna: L'ottavo libro di madrigali

Århus C, DK
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It's never too late for Early Music! 400 year old madrigals; re-discovered and recorded for the first time in 2013...

Pomponio Nenna? Never heard of him.

No, you probably have not - but then, that's exactly what we'd like to change.

The vocal music composed in Italy during the Renaissance was no less than spectacular, and much of it has survived and is popular among classical music lovers even today. Madrigals by composers such as Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz and Carlo Gesualdo have been performed, recorded and re-recorded again and again, and by some of the world's greatest vocal consorts (Concerto Italiano, La Venexiana, Consort of Musicke, I Fagiolini and Cantus Cölln to name a few).

The composer Pomponio Nenna (1556 - 1608) moved within the same musical circles and wrote his madrigals during the same time period; within the same artistic paradigm as these great artists - but fate would have it that most of his compositions were left collecting dust on library shelves; virtually forgotten. Until a German musicologist came along, that is...

Danes singing madrigals? Really?

...and with passion, too! Per Passione is a group of professional singers who all share a particular interest in the music of the late Renaissance and the early Baroque. We are based in Aarhus, Denmark - which makes us one of this country's first (and very few!) one-to-a-part vocal consorts. Since the ensemble was formed in 2007, we have toured and performed all over the country. Our goal has ever been to make the music of the Renaissance accessible to the modern day audience; to bring down the barriers that time has worked so dilligently to put up between us and the great art that was made back then. In our performances we tackle this challenge by diverse means: our commitment to performance practice is usually accompanied by either scholarly or more popular presentations that serve to illustrate how music is never composed within a vacuum.

The present project, however, would never have come about were it not for the German musicologist Mirco Oswald, who is the genius behind the modern edition of Nenna's eighth book of madrigals. Mirco's work with the original manuscripts; putting the music into modern notation and - even more importantly - putting it into context, has been the starting point of this project: Mirco was the one who made us aware of this little forgotten gem.

30.000 DKK? That's a lot of money...

Yes, it is - but it's not nearly as much as we need to make such a recording see the light of day in a country where wages, as well as taxes and VAT, are notoriously high - and where classical music holds a somewhat less than prominent place in the public mind. (We e.g. don't have a full-time classical radio channel on FM anymore.) It has, in other words, proved excessively hard to raise the money we need, but we are on our way! With your help we will reach our goal and be able to deliver to the publishers a product of excellent quality; recorded and edited by a professional sound engineer, who will be able to make the beautiful voices and instruments sound their very best on record.

There's much more information about the project available on our website -

www.perpassione.dk/pomponionenna-en.html

- or, for the Danes

www.perpassione.dk/pomponionenna.html

We'll provide our audience with updates on the project via Facebook and Twitter:

www.facebook.com/perpassione

www.twitter.com/perpassione

And, finally: If you'd like to learn some more about composer Pomponio Nenna, start here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pomponio_nenna

 

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Thank you!

50,00 kr. + : Special mention on the project website www.perpassione.dk/pomponionenna-en.html. You've helped us along, and we thank you!

 

Own the CD

150,00 kr. + : Special mention on the project website. Also, a hard copy (CD) of the album will find its way to your postbox prior to the official release date.

 

We salute you, dear backer!

200,00 kr. + : Special mention on the project website... and a hard copy (CD) of the album signed by all Per Passione's members will land in your postbox prior to the album's official release date; accompanied by a hand written thank you note.

 

Get the bonus tracks!

400,00 kr. + : Special mention on the project website. A hard copy (CD) of the album signed by all Per Passione's members together with two special bonus tracks recorded during the same session as Pomponio Nenna's madrigals (Surprise! Surprise!) will be yours; even before the CD is officially released.

 

Get behind the scenes...

750,00 kr. + : Special mention on the project website, and a hard copy (CD) of the album signed by all of Per Passione's members, the special bonus tracks and a DVD with the "Making Of"-video will be yours to flash to your friends before the CD becomes available in stores.

 

Per Passione: as presented by...

1 000,00 kr. + : Not only will you be mentioned on the project website: your name will also appear in the album sleeve of the CD, of which you will receive a copy (signed by all of Per Passione's members) along with the bonus tracks and the "Making Of"-DVD prior to the official album release date

 

The music in context

3 000,00 kr. + : Pomponio Nenna wrote his music during a true Golden Age in European history: the Renaissance. Donate DKK 3000 or more, and the ensemble's in-house historian and language geek Ida Marie Pedersen will get in touch with you to arrange a date for a one-hour presentation on the Italian Renaissance; with peaks about art and fashion, culture, architecture - and of course music. Your name will appear on the project website, and Ida Marie will bring along with her to your address anywhere in Denmark a hard copy (CD) of the album with your name mentioned in the album sleeve; together with the bonus tracks and the "Making Of"-DVD.

 

Your Own Personal Vocal Consort

10 000,00 kr. + : Nenna's music was written to be performed: Renaissance people didn't own CD players! Five of Per Passione's singers will bring you back to Rome anno 1600 - and you won't even have to leave your own living room! The performers will bring along a hard copy (CD) of the album; signed by all of Per Passione's members, together with copies of the bonus tracks and the "Making Of"-DVD. Don't get up - we'll come to you, wherever you are in the state of Denmark...