THE ALBUM
The Codex Faenza is one of the most significant Ars Nova manuscripts, captivating musicians and musicologists alike. The remarkable collection features instrumental arrangements on Italian and French vocal works by renowned 14th-century composers like Francesco Landini, Guillaume de Machaut, Jacopo da Bologna, and Bartolino da Padova. Through a unique fusion of original vocal models, the version arranged from the codex and newly composed diminutions by the performer, L'Amorosa Caccia creates an immersive auditory journey, inviting listeners into a world where composition and reinterpretation unfold in a truly three-dimensional listening experience. L’Amorosa Caccia performs on copies of medieval instruments and on the organ of the Basilique de Valère (1435), the oldest playable organ still extant.
BIO
Fabio Antonio Falcone is a passionate performer with a focus on Renaissance music. He is especially interested in sixteenth-century Italian keyboard and vocal repertoire.
He performs as a soloist and continuo player at international venues and festivals with several ensembles among which Ensemble Elyma, Stile Galante, Genève Baroque, Ensemble Lucidarium and Ensemble Odissee Orchestra with which he tours Europe and records CDs for different labels.
Together with mandolin player Anna Schivazappa in 2012 he founded Pizzicar Galante, an ensemble specialized in galant repertoire for mandolin and basso continuo. In 2015 he also founded L’Amorosa Caccia, an ensemble with who he has been exploring instrumental and vocal repertoire from the Renaissance with a special focus on Italian frottolas and madrigals.
Falcone combines performance with academic research in music education. His research focus on the individuation of teaching practices, through the didactic analysis of historical sources and teaching methods for keyboard. He is currently member of the research group in the didactics of the arts, the music and the movement (DAM) at the University of Geneva, where he also serves as a lecturer in didactics of music.
His recordings are widely praised by international critics and broadcast by leading radio stations such as BBC, Radio RAI, Radio France, BR-Klassik, WDR3, RTVE, Radio Clásica, and CKRL 89.1. His most recent album, The Art of variation, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck secular cycles (Challenge Records CC72926), won the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik - Bestenliste in the keyboard instruments category.
He studied in the Netherlands with Bob van Asperen, as well as in Italy with Maria Luisa Baldassari and Jesper Bøje Christensen, and in Switzerland with Francis Biggi and Kenneth Weiss.
FESTIVALS & CONCERT HALLS
Festival MiTo Milan-Turin, Les concerts de Midi Paris-Sorbonne, Festival de Musiques Anciennes de la Réole, Festival Luths et Théorbes, Festival Embar(o)quement immédiat, Festival Frisson Baroque, Sala Puccini Conservatoire de Milan, Festival baroque de Sézanne, Festival Sinfonia en Périgueux, Fondazione Giorgio Cini Venise, Festival Minimes Bruxelles, Festival baroque du Pays du Mont Blanc, Maison de la Radio France, Chapelle de la Salpetrière Paris, Festival Off Vevey-Montreux, Concerti di San Torpete Gênes, Summerwinds Festival Münster, Kunsthalle Lingen, Early Music Festival Bad Arolsen, Concerts d’Anacréon Angers, Musik Hochschule Cologne, Les Inédits de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France Paris, The Sypert Summer Concert Series Edinburgh
ENSEMBLE
The ensemble L’Amorosa Caccia takes its name from a 1588 Venetian anthology of madrigals by Italian composers. This collection, featuring works by little-known musicians active at the court of Mantua, provides a glimpse into the vibrant and refined musical life of one of the Renaissance's most culturally dynamic courts.
Inspired by a spirit of discovery, harpsichordist and organist Fabio Antonio Falcone founded L’Amorosa Caccia in Geneva in 2015, following his meeting with flutist Tímea Nagy. The ensemble is dedicated to showcasing exceptional yet underexplored or previously unperformed instrumental and vocal repertoire from the Italian Renaissance and late Renaissance, with a particular focus on frottolas and madrigals.
The ensemble brings together musicians united by a shared passion for rediscovering and studying repertoires closely tied to their original cultural contexts. Their mission is to make these nearly forgotten works accessible and meaningful to modern audiences. Since their debut performances, L’Amorosa Caccia has received enthusiastic acclaim, with audiences praising the ensemble’s extraordinary originality and potential.
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