IL PONTE DI LEONARDO
Works by Tromboncino, Dalza et al.

1 Kuh-Pareh Agha Mo’men (16th c.)
Cantemir Collection #163

2 Non val aqua al mio gran foco
Bartolomeo Tromboncino (1470-after 1534)
Libro II, Franciscus Bossinensis, Fossombrone, 1511

3 Staralla ben cussì Anonymous (16th c.)
Libro II, Franciscus Bossinensis, Fossombrone, 1511

4 Parvaz Kiya Tabassian (1976)
Poem of Amir Khusrow (1253-1325)

5 Pan de miglio caldo Anonymous (16th c.)
Libro VI, Ottaviano Petrucci, Venice, 1505

6 Saltarello e Piva Ambrogio Dalza (?-1508)
Intabolatura... libro II, Petrucci, Venice, 1508

7 Sera ne lo cor mio Anonymous (15th c.)
MS Sevilla, Colombina 5-l-43

8 Tu dormi / Rouz o Shab
Bartolomeo Tromboncino (1470- after 1534)
additional lyrics by Marco Beasley (1957)
Libro I, Franciscus Bossinensis, Venice, 1509
Kiya Tabassian (1976), Poem of Rumi (1207-1273)

9 So stato nel inferno Anonymous (15th c.)
Poem of Feo Belcari
MS Sevilla, Colombina 5-l-43

10 Semai Pire mey foroush Anonymous (15th c.)
Poem of Hafez (1320-1390) - Macmua-i Saz u Suz

11 Cavalca Sinisbaldo Anonymous (16th c.)
MS Sevilla, Colombina 5-l-43

12 Hijaz Semai Anonymous (16th c.) 5:34
Macmua-i Saz u Suz

13 Noi che semper naveghemmu
After a poem by Anonimo Genovese (fl. 1270-1311)
music by Gian Piero Alloisio (1956)

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About this album

On 3 July 1502, a remarkable letter with a bold and daring proposal went on a ship from Genoa to Istanbul, signed by one of the most brilliant minds of his time: Leonardo da Vinci. It was addressed to Sultan Bayezid II and Leonardo proposed a daring project to the Sultan: the largest bridge in the world over the Golden Horn, 23 m wide, 350 m long and 40 m high! His revolutionary design never saw the light of day; only a sketch in Leonardo’s notes has survived. His revolutionary design never saw the light of day. Some 500 years after Leonardo’s death, this recording gives musical expression to his unfinished architectural project and builds the bridge he envisioned between East and West. Ottoman compositions, Persian poems and 16th-century Italian frottole are heard, uniting the popular repertoire of two centres of musical culture of the time: Persia and the Ottoman Empire on the one hand, and Renaissance Italy on the other. Under the direction of Kiya Tabassian, Italian singer Marco Beasley and the musicians of Constantinople immerse us in the imaginary and audacious world of da Vinci’s drawings.