The Arcum treble voices choir, founded by Maestro Paolo Lucci in 1973, is one of the great performers of Italian cinema music and beyond. Over the span of its long life it has collaborated with many Italian and International composers, among them Maestro Ennio Morricone who more than once made use of this element by giving it a central role in his soundtracks (Chi l’ha vista morire, Il sorriso del grande tentatore, Assassinio sul ponte, L’eredità Ferramonti, Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, Per amore, Stato Interessante, Holocaust 2000, The Mission…).

Many other artists of this and last century, including Annecchino, Banchieri, Ceccarelli, Chillemi, Churchill, de Masi, Eidelman, Falconieri, Jarre, Minghi, Murzi, Paer, Piccioni, Trovajoli, have collaborated with this wonderful choir. Artistically directed by Paolo Lucci, a living icon in choral music, the institution has offered an amazing lineup of programs and concerts featuring names of first rank in the international music landscape, sometimes conducted by musicians of almost mythical status such as Bernstein, Muti, Sinopoli, Frisina, Domingo and many others, not to mention the concerts featured on the TV show on which the choir worked; to list them all we’d need a small book.

I COLORI DEL TEMPO is the result of the concentrated effort to record a selection from the body of work of an important artist in Italian culture, offering the listener a collection of his personal ideas performed by the Arcum white voices choir. The styles represented range from holy music to doggerel and everything in between, following the canon of this musical genre. This tribute to an industrious artist and his contribution to the choral music world and Italian cinema is finally available on this double-CD set mastered by Enrico De Gemini. The CDs are packaged in a jewel case featuring a 20-page booklet designed by Alessio Iannuzzi with exclusive cover artwork painted by Maestro Andrea Clanetti, an Italian artist/painter/illustrator with a Bruxelles atelier.

CD 1

1. Were you there? (Anonimo) (1966) [10] 2:26
2. Fra’ Martino (1968) [8] 1:16
3/4 “Due piccoli canti” [9]
3. Ave Vergine beata (1969) 0:55
4. Figlio dormi (1970) 0:55
5/6 “Canti per la Passione” [10]
5. Tristis est (1968) 2:48
6. Tenebrae factae sunt (1973) 3:06
7/14 “Corydon” (1970/80) (live) [4]
7. Moderato, affettuoso 1:24
8. Allegretto, scherzoso 0:49
9. Andantino, grazioso 1:27
10. Allegro, curioso 0:56
11. Andantino, con sentimento 1:46
12. Larghetto, sereno 2:24
13. Moderato, misterioso 1:46
14. Allegretto, spiritoso 0:47
15/16 “Due canti natalizi” [7]
15. Angelus ad pastores (1970) 3:33
16. Vidimus stellam (1971) 2:26
17. Il malatino (1975 versione 1996) [8] 2:17
18. Acquaviva (1976) (live) [1] 2:56
19. “Eus tu, viator” (in memoriam Benjamin Britten)
(1977 revisione 1980) (live) [3] 22:04
20. Interludio (1977) (live) [2] 2:39
21. “Addio fanciullo...” (1978 rev. 1981) [5] 10:15
22/24 “Quattro canti sacri” (live) [6]
22. Ave maris stella (1965 versione 1985) 2:11
23. O vos omnes (1966 versione 1985) 2:06
24. O salutaris hostia (1969 versione 1985) 1:30
25. Jesu dulcis memoria (1978 versione 1985) 2:43

CD 2

1/5 “Missa minima” (in memoria di Giovanni Paolo I°)
(1979 versione 2012) (live) [8]
1. Kyrie 2:48
2. Gloria 4:07
3. Sanctus 3:08
4. Benedictus 2:19
5. Agnus Dei 1:56
6/10 “...ma non ci sono più farfalle” (1980) (live) [1]
6. La città chiusa 1:13
7. La farfalla 2:10
8. Terezin 4:12
9. Il giardino 0:51
10. La canzone dell’uccello 3:06
11. Corydon (II) (1981) (live) [2] 4:13
12. Corydon (III) (1986) [12] 2:51
13. Beware! (1997) [3] 1:45
14/16 “Tre filastrocche” (1997 versione 2000) [5]
14. La luna al guinzaglio 0:45
15. Pescator che vai sul mare 1:31
16. Giovannino Perdigiorno 0:28
17. Exultate Deo (1999) (live) [4] 1:21
18/19 “Due canti” (2001) [9]
18. Nuvoletta 0:50
19. Chiedo un mondo nuovo 0:51
20) Caracola (2003) [11] 2:46
21) “La Creazione” (2003 versione 2012) (live) 16:00
22/24 ”Tre piccoli ritratti” (2004) [7]
22. Il cigno 1:44
23. La lumaca 2:26
24. La gallina 0:57
25. Nil nostri miserere? da “Corydon” (IV) (2005) [6] 1:54
26. Vexilla regis (2005) [10] 1:46
27. Là, in fondo al bosco (2006) [9] 1:54
28/31 “Pensieri di Leonardo” (2015) [12]
28. L’acqua che tocchi... 1:03
29. Quando io crederò... 0:53
30. Il vòto nasce... 0:37
31. Ogni nostra cognizione... 1:13
32. Alleluja, alto re di gloria (Sec. XIII) (2006) [9] 1:10