Vestiva: not only our red thread throughout the
album, referring to one of our favourite madrigal
hits Vesti va i colli, but also a metaphorical motto:
"dressing up" the music with colours, diminutions,
trilli, accenti... (as the hills, the colli, in the original
madrigal text are dressed up with fl owers) in
the balancing act of pure fl exibility and absolute
punctuality or momentum - creating spoken
"words" with a minimal, reduced instrumentation
and without actual sung text.
Working in this minimal, fragile and intimate
instrumental setting with lute, harp and recorders
while trying to reach maximum expression is an
absolute challenge and pure joy.