The vocal group Odhecaton takes its name from “Harmonice
Musices Odhecaton”, the first musical edition that was
entirely dedicated to music and published in Venice by Ottaviano
Petrucci. The repertoire chosen by Odhecaton (which means one
hundred songs) includes the musical production of Italian and
Flemish composers who were active in
Italy
between the Quatrocento and the Cinquecento, widely represented in
the work of Petrucci. Odhecaton joins together Italian male voices
specialized in the execution of Renaissance and pre-classic music.
Each performance is the result of research of musical sources and
their final success is the recording and edition of the music.
The programme consecrated to music for the
Coronation of Carlos V,
edited by the Bongiovanni
record label, has been recorded in full. It has been
broadcast on Radio 3 on the occasion of the Fifth Centennial of the
Birth of Carlos V. Odhecaton have sung in Spain at the
Granada Festival, in
Madrid and twice at the Caja Madrid series LOS SIGLOS DE ORO. They
inaugurated the Carlos V exhibition in Toledo
and performed in Santiago de Compostela at the Festival of
Galicia, and also in
Portugal (Lisbon).
In March 2000 they recorded the “Missa La Spagna” by Heinrich Isaac
and gave performances in Madrid,
Bologna, Pisa, Florence and at the Festival of Flanders Laus Poliphoniae
in Antwerp.
The recording for Bongiovanni has been launched in the market in
October 2002.
Their first CD
issued by Assai is dedicated to
“The Passion” by Josquin
Desprez was also launched in October 2002.
Their projects for the future include recordings of
the Missa by Compère as well as a mass from Obrecht
Paolo Da Col completed his studies on music and musicology in Bologna.
He alternates research activity with concert
performances, in the capacity as singer and organist. For more than
twenty years he has taken part in numerous Italian vocal formations,
such as the Ensemble “Istitutioni
Harmoniche di Bologna” amongst others.
He
is a Professor at the Conservatory of Trieste. He collaborates with
specialized magazines as a music critic and is a pre-classic
instrumental music edition
and the author of essays on the history of the Renaissance
and Baroque vocal music.
“As a result of his research, Paolo
Da Col and Odhecaton with their voices, have
recreated the “Missa La Spagna” for four voices by Heinrich Isaac.
Italian Renaissance in its purist state takes us back to the
Florence of 1506 (the place and time it is dated) and in which the
four voices, primordial and gravely the tenor, expose the melody and
intertwine all the passages, from the compassionate Kyrie to the
contrite Agnus Dei. A wealth of voices that, from the severity of
the rite, induces dance that is intrinsically contained in this
melody. Accurately
differentiating between each of the voices perceived, dissection is
however impossible and the liturgical text becomes understandable
while wrapped in counterpoints and games.”
Pablo Queipo de Llano
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