Somnia Zefiro Torna, Lore Binon, Jurgen De bruyn

• Traditional: Schlof main Kind:
• 1 Traditional: Schlof main Kind 04:07
• Bressarello:
• 2 Traditional: Bressarello 03:08
• José Afonso (1929 - 1987): Canção de Embalar:
• 3 Afonso: Canção de Embalar 03:52
• Traditional: Black is the color of my true love's hair / Passacaille in D Minor:
• 4 Traditional: Black is the color of my true love's hair / Passacaille in D Minor 03:25
• William Webb (1625 - 1680): Pow’rful Morpheus, let thy charms:
• 5 Webb: Pow’rful Morpheus, let thy charms 03:48
• John Dowland (1563 - 1626): In darkness let me dwell:
• 6 Dowland: In darkness let me dwell 04:02
• Etienne Moulinié (1599 - 1676): O stelle homicide:
• 7 Moulinié: O stelle homicide 03:23
• Francis Pilkington (1564 - 1638): Rest, sweet Nymphs:
• 8 Pilkington: Rest, sweet Nymphs 04:14
• Anonymous: The dark is my delight:
• 9 Anonymous: The dark is my delight 01:39
• Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (ca. 1580 - 1651): Figlio dormi:
• 10 Kapsberger: Figlio dormi 05:13
• Toccata Seconda Arpeggiata:
• 11 Kapsberger: Toccata Seconda Arpeggiata 02:46
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725): O cessate di piagarmi:
• 12 Scarlatti: O cessate di piagarmi 02:31
• Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665): Hor ch'è tempo di dormire:
• 13 Merula: Hor ch'è tempo di dormire 08:04
• Michelagnolo Galilei (1575 - 1631): Toccata / Four Quartets:
• 14 Galilei: Toccata / Four Quartets: III. (excerpt) 01:42
• Constantijn Huygens (1596 - 1687): Aubade (J'ai veu le point du jour):
• 15 Huygens: Aubade (J'ai veu le point du jour) 02:16
• Total Runtime 54:10

Info for Somnia

Close your eyes and surrender to Hypnos, God of sleep. ZEFIRO TORNA pours a hallucinatory elixir of dreams, solitude, secret fantasies, and soothing whispers. Baroque masters like Kapsberger, Dowland, Moulinie, and Huygens drew inspiration from night and sleep. The enchanting voice of Lore Binon pierces the darkness, carried by Jurgen De bruyn's theorbo and lute. Lean back and drift away into... Somnia.

Verità Baroque Ensemble takes historically informed performance practice a step further in this innovative album of music from the Italian baroque. Not only do they perform on period instruments, but they recorded in the halls for which the music was originally composed: baroque castles in Germany. Utilizing state-of-the-art recording and mixing techniques, the result is a resonant, immersive sound experience.

Lore Binon, soprano
Jurgen De bruyn, theorbo, archlute, musical direction
Zefiro Torna

Zefiro Torna
For thirty years, the transhistorical music ensemble ZEFIRO TORNA has been on an epic journey through time and sound. What began as a search for forgotten voices from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods has grown into a mesmerising interplay between past and future – a musical alchemy in which tradition and innovation merge into an experience beyond clear definition.

Unbound by stylistic boundaries or linear time, the ensemble makes unusual connections – between music and literature, science, mysticism, visual art and performance. This cross-pollination gives rise to performances that are not merely concerts, but rituals: haunting, layered and symbolically charged.

ZEFIRO TORNA works with virtuoso musicians from all over the world and resonates with artists and thinkers who dare to break with the familiar: including Aïda Gabriëls, Ghalia Benali, Thomas Hauert, Mauro Pawlowski, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and companies such as ICTUS, KVS, LAIKA theater der zinnen and Muziektheater Transparant. Their creations resonate in sacred and secular spaces: from the understated splendour of AMUZ, BOZAR, Casa da Música Porto, Concertgebouw Brugge, Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam, to the cosmopolitan energy of festivals such as Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, Laus Polyphoniae Antwerp, Morgenland Festival Osnabrück and O. Festival Rotterdam.

Award-winning and released on labels such as Et'Cetera, Warner Classics, Homerecords and Evil Penguin Records, their oeuvre continues to expand – like an inexhaustible source of inspiration, reaching out towards new horizons.

Booklet for Somnia