Venite alla danza!

Venite alla danza!
Dance music through the Middle Ages
La Reverdie
Arcana A 602 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Anon., 13th c. France: De Patre principio (rotundellus)
  2. Anon., 13th c. France: La Seste Estampie Royal (estampie, instrumental)
  3. Giraut d'Espaigna (fl.1245-1265): Ben volgra s'esser poges (desdansa)
  4. Anon., 14th c. Catalonia: Stella splendens (virelai)
  5. Anon., 13th c. Italy: Chi vuol ballare a righoletto (lauda)
  6. Anon., 14th c. Italy: Trotto (dance, instrumental)
  7. Anon., 14th c. Italy: Amor me fa cantar alla francescha (ballata)
  8. Anon. / Gherardello da Firenze: Non ti fidare che oggi è sì pocha fé (sonetto overo canzona)
  9. Machaut: Moult sui de bonne heure nee (virelai)
  10. Anon., 14th c. Italy: Isabella (istampitta, instrumental)
  11. Anon., 14th c. France: Dame vailants / Amis, de tant que / Certainement puet (ballade)
  12. Franco Sacchetti (1332-1400) / Landini: Benedetta sia la state (chanzonetta balatella)
  13. Dufay: Ce jour de l'an (rondeau)
  14. Ebreo da Pesaro: Falla con misuras (bassadanza, instrumental)

Performers: Claudia Caffagni (voice, lute, gittern, psalteries, hammered bell), Livia Caffagni (voice, recorders, vielle), Elisabetta de Mircovich (voice, rebec, vielle, symphonia), Lorenzo d'Erasmo (frame drums, rope drum, jaw harp, clappers, hammered bells), Doron David Sherwin (voice, mute cornet), Teodora Tommasi (voice, recorders, harp), Matteo Zenatti (voice, harps, frame drum); Christophe Deslignes (organetoo, voice), Paola Erdas (clavicymbalum), Stefano Maffioletti (voice, tinkerbells), Federico Rossignoli (jaw harps)

Playing time: 68'

Recording date: March 2026 (Treviso); released: 2026

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Todd M. McComb