“During the lockdown, Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva recorded “Rebirth” with Leonardo García Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea. The album brings together different centuries and styles, from Monteverdi to Spanish Jácaras and English madrigals. It is a programme that tears down boundaries and reveals Yoncheva’s passion for all kinds of music.”
Stéphane Renard for L’Echo
This project emerged from silence – not only the silence of live music during the global pandemic, but also the silence that precedes the birth of a new creation. Sonya Yoncheva came up with this project ten years ago, at the start of her career. She wanted to show listeners the relevance of Baroque music today. Around the same time, she met Leonardo García Alarcón at the Conservatoire de Genève. When the coronavirus pandemic struck Europe in March 2020, they began a musical dialogue. The project developed organically. The singer would propose songs and the conductor would respond with suggestions of his own, drawing on his in-depth knowledge of the Baroque repertoire.
Alessandro Stradella, Queste lagrime e sospiri
Claudio Monteverdi, O rosetta, che rosetta SV 237
Francesco Cavalli, Ed è pur vero, o core… Luci mie, voi che miraste
Orlando Gibbons, The Silver Swan
Claudio Monteverdi, Voglio di vita uscir
José Marín, Ojos, pues me desdeñáis
Leonardo García Alarcón, Y a tus plantas Nisea
Simón Díaz, Pasaje del olvido
Bulgarian folk song, Zableyalo mi agance
Francesco Cavalli, L’Egisto: Sinfonia della notte
Claudio Monteverdi, Oblivion soave
Barbara Strozzi, L’Eraclito amoroso
Santiago de Murcia & Diego Fernández de Huete, Tarantela española
Alfonso Ferrabosco II, Hear me, O God
John Dowland, Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Tomás de Torrejón y Velazco, No hay que decir el primor
Abba, Like an Angel Passing Through My Room
Performance running time: approx. 1 hour 15 minutes
Sonya Yoncheva, soprano
Leonardo García Alarcón, musical direction, spinet, organ
Cappella Mediterranea
Amandine Solano & Sue-Ying Koang, violins
Rodrigo Rodrigo, cornet et flutes
Diana Vinagre, cello
Margaux Blanchard, viola da gamba
Quito Gato, theorbo, guitar
Monica Pustilnik, archlutes, guitar
Marie Bournisien, harp
Eric Mathot, double bass
