The Seasons PRISMA

• Elisabeth Champollion:
• 1Prelude for Recorder00:54
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594):
• 2Vestiva i colli e le campagne intorno (Arranged by Elisabeth Champollion and Alon Sariel)03:14
• Francesco Turini (1589 - 1656):
• 3Trio Sonata in D minor "E tanto tempo hormai"03:27
• Marco Uccellini(1603 - 1680):
• 4Maritati insieme la Gallina, e'l Cucco fanno un bel concerto01:50
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665), Antonio Bertali (1605 - 1669): Ciaccona:
• 5Ciaccona: Variations (Arranged by Franciska Anna Hajdu and Dávid Budai)03:47
• Franciska Anna Hajdu:
• 6Prelude for Violin Solo01:45
• Marco Uccellini
• 7La Luciminia contenta03:16
• Giovanni Battista Fontana (1571 - 1630):
• 8Sonata settima04:54
• Dávid Budai:
• 9Canario01:59
• Anonymous
• 10Prelude for Lute Solo - Upon La Mi Re (Arranged by Alon Sariel and Dávid Budai )03:13
• Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665):
• 11La Cattarina, Op.12, No.1004:08
• Dario Castello (1600 - 1658):
• 12Sonata duodecima06:30
• Andrea Falconieri (1585 - 1656):
• 13Passacalle (Arranged by Dávid Budai)03:10
• Yves Montand (1921 - 1991): Interlude:
• 14Interlude: Improvisation on Les Feuilles Mortes01:40
• Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 1680): Tarantella:
• 15Tarantella: Variations (Arranged by Dávid Budai)01:39
• Biagio Marini (1594 - 1663):
• 16Prelude for Viola Da Gamba Based on "Retirata" from Baletto Secondo (Arranged by Dávid Budai and Elisabeth Champollion)01:54
• Andrea Falconieri:
• 17La suave melodia02:19
• Francesco Turini:
• 18Sonata a due canti05:46
• Marco Uccellini, Biagio Marini: Mantovana:
• 19Mantovana: Variations (Arranged by Dávid Budai )03:12
• Total Runtime58:37

Info for The Seasons

Virtuoso sonatas, tarantellas and chaconnes from seventeenth-century Italy are performed here with contagious energy by the young ensemble PRISMA, a laureate of the emerging programme. The four musicians accompany this colourful programme of variations on the theme of the seasons with their own improvisations.

The four winds, sons of Aurora and Astreos, bring the different characters into music: Zefiro the sweet wind of spring, Boreas the winter's cold, Notos the heat and tempest of summertime, and Euros the thunderstorms of autumn. PRISMA explores those traits of the four winds in Italian music of the 17th century with its virtuoso sonatas by Uccellini, Fontana or Turini, as well as the Renaissance standards like the Canario or the Ciaccona from which the group has collected and put together the best variations by different composers, as well as their own versions.

Elisabeth Champollion, recorder
Franciska Anna Hajdu, violin
Dávid Budai, viola da gamba
Alon Sariel, lute

PRISMA
has been touring Europe from the very beginning of the group's existence: Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovenia...The ensemble of four young musicians get together to play the particularly expressive, wacky, and colourful music of the 16th and 17th century. The Göttinger Tageblatt states that "this truly vivid art of interpretation – together with technical perfection, beauty of sound and balance – brings the impression that every phrase is invented in the very moment.“

In May 2015, PRISMA won 1st Prize at the International Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Competition in Austria. Following this, they have been invited to give concerts at the Biber Festival in Vienna, the Reihe Historischer Musik der Händel-Festspiele Göttingen, and on air with the Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Ö1 – Österreichischer Rundfunk. In 2016, 2017 and 2018, they are accepted to be part of the program "Emerging European Ensembles" (Centre Culturel d'Ambronay). Music journalist Leszek Bernat wrote about the group's appearance at Ambronay "EEEmerging" Festival: "PRISMA enchanted the audience which was captivated by their musicality, perfect understanding between the musicians, art of ornamentation and the joy of making music together. No wonder this group won the Audience Price."

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