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La Pifarescha is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading protagonists of early wind music. The ensemble was originally conceived as an alta cappella ensemble, a configuration of wind and percussion instruments that was immensely popular throughout medieval and renaissance Europe.
The alta cappella enjoyed widespread popularity for its unique ability to function both on its own and in supporting roles with other instrumental ensembles, vocal ensembles, and dance companies. La Pifarescha explores the entire spectrum of wind music, tracing the evolution from the alta cappella to the noble consort of cornetts and sackbuts, which appeared on the scene during the renaissance and flourished in the early baroque. The group often expands its ranks to include keyboards, strings, and voices, and reaches beyond the panorama of Western Art Music towards popular and ethnic traditions.
The ensemble incorporates a fascinating and diverse selection of instruments. Shawms, bombards, sackbuts, cornetts, trumpets, bagpipes, dulcians, flutes, fiddles, lutes, viols, dulcimer, percussion, and many others, join together to alternate the sounds of alta cappella with the bassa cappella, offering a highly variable sonority unique to the ensemble.
Regularly present in prestigious International Festivals, La Pifarescha has recorded for CPO, Classic Voice, Dynamic, Arts, Concerto Classics, Outhere, Pan Classic, Glossa.
In 2020 the ensemble was awarded first prize in the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) Early Music category, for the CD “Willaert e la Scuola Fiamminga a San Marco", a collaboration with the Cappella Marciana and conductor Marco Gemmani.


The splendour of Venice

Music for Cornetts, Violins & Sackbut

  • Giovanni Gabrieli - Canzon primi toni

Di guerra e di pace

Renaissance music for winds and percussion

  • Symphonia nobili sirene

Vespro della Beata Vergine

Claudio Monteverdi

  • Domine ad adiuvandum

Alcina

Francesca Caccini

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5 Magnificat

Francesco Cavalli


  • Canzona a 10

Mateo Flecha

Ensaladas


  • Antonio de Cabezòn - Diferencias sobre el Canto del Caballero

Claudio Monteverdi

Vespro della Beata Vergine / Messa in Illo Temporis senis vocibus


  • Sonata sopra Sancta Maria

Giovanni Gabrieli

La Musica per San Rocco


  • Canzona n°14

Tour

6/7
April
2020
Quito (Ecuador) - [CANCELLED due to COVID-19]

XIX Festival Internacional de Música sacra de Quito - “La Lauda e gli Ostinati"

LINK

31
May
2020
Ferrara (FE) - [CANCELLED due to COVID-19]

"Con ogni sorta di strumenti"

21
July
2020
Ravenna (RA), Italy

XXXI Ravenna Festival - “La battaglia di Lepanto”
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24
July
2020
Urbino (PU) - CANCELLED due to Covid-19

Festival Urbino Musica Antica - “Al tempo di Raffaello”

16
September
2020
Firenze (FI), Italy

FloReMus Festival

12
November
2020
Herne (Germany) - [CANCELLED due to COVID-19]

Tage Alter Musik in Herne - “Il suono dell’Arcadia”

19-20
February
2021
Firenze

Claudio Monteverdi, L’Orfeo – Recording session

15
April
2021
Firenze

La cupola armonica

8-13
September
2021
Bremen (Germany)

Di guerra e di pace

14
November
2021
Herne (Germany)

Tage Alter Musik in Herne - “Il suono dell’Arcadia”

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