Cantar moderno

Il Cantar Moderno
Venetian and Neapolitan songs of the 15th Century
Ensemble Daedalus
Accent 9068 [CD]
Accent 10068 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Anon / Feo Belcari (lauda): Giù per la mala via (soprano, 2 tenors, bass, 2 recorders, rebec, vielle, viol, lute, percussion)
  2. Pietro Oriola / Anon (barzelletta): O vos homines (soprano, tenor, bass)
  3. Anon / L. Guistiniani (canzone): Ben so che la mia mente (tenor, 2 recorders, vielle, lute)
  4. Anon / Guistiniani (ballata): Ben so che la mia mente (soprano, tenor, bass, recorder, vielle, viol)
  5. Dunstable or Bedingham / Leonardo Justiniano (ballata): O rosa bella, He robinet (soprano, bass)
    Dunstable or Bedingham: O rosa bella (2 recorders)
    Dunstable or Bedingham / Justiniano: O rosa bella (tenor, baritone, bass)
  6. Anon / Guistiniani (canzone): Triumpho de le done (soprano, vielle, viol)
  7. Anon / Guistiniani (canzone): Piangete done (soprano, tenor)
  8. Anon / Guistiniani (canzone): Una vechia sempiternosa (soprano, 2 tenors, rebec, vielle, viol)
  9. Anon / Guistiniani (ballata): Fate d'arera (soprano, tenor)
  10. Anon / Guistiniani (ballata): Hora may che fora son (soprano, 2 tenors, bass, 2 recorders, vielle, viol, lute)
  11. Cornago / Guistiniani (canzone): Morte merce (soprano, tenor, bass, vielle, lute, percussion)
    Binchois: Mort en mercy (recorder, vielle, viol)
  12. Anon / Anon (canzone): Per la mya cara (soprano, tenor, bass, lute)
  13. Anon / Anon (ballata): La gratia de voe (soprano, tenor, vielle, lute)
  14. Anon / Francesco Galeota (strambotto): O tempo bono (narration, lute)
    Anon: O tempo bono (2 recorders, vielle, viol, percussion)
    Anon / Galeota (strambotto): O tempo bono (soprano, 2 tenors, vielle, viol, lute)
  15. Anon / Giacomo Cantelmo (strambotto): Cor mio volunturioso (soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, bass)
  16. Anon / Cantelmo (barzelletta): Amor tu non me gabasti (soprano, 2 tenors, bass, 2 recorders, vielle, viol, lute)
  17. Anon: Voca la galiera (2 recorders, vielle, viol, lute)
  18. Isaac / Anon (canzone): Morte che fay (soprano, 2 tenors, bass, lute)

Performers: Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano, rebec, percussion), Otto Rastbichler (tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Martin Hummel (baritone), Josep Cabré (bass, narration), Roberto Festa (recorder), Koko Taylor (recorder, percussion), Renée Stock (vielle), Sergi Casademunt (viol), Hugh Sandilands (lute), Jill Schaeffer (percussion)

Playing time: 69'

Recording date: July 1990

This program contains a sizeable cross-section of the surprisingly few surviving Italian secular songs of the 15th century. This period is considered a sharp transition between the voluminous Italian songs of the 14th & 16th centuries.

For the current program, the ascription gives Music / Text. Most of the music is anonymous.

Other recordings by the present ensemble:

El Cancionero de la Catedral de Segovia
Ensemble Daedalus
Accent 9176
O Vergin Santa non m'abbandonare
Laudi Veneziane e Fiorentine del XV e XVI secolo
Ensemble Daedalus
Accent 9289
Canzoni villanesche alla Napolitana
Ensemble Daedalus
Accent 94107
Jacquet de Berchem: La Favola di Orlando
Ensemble Daedalus - Roberto Festa
Accent 95112
Salomone Rossi: The Two Souls of Solomon
Ensemble Daedalus
Accent 96119
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Ensemble Daedalus - Roberto Festa
Accent 98128
Saturn and Polyphony
Ensemble Daedalus - Roberto Festa
Accent 98130
Prioris: Requiem / Missa super "Allez Regrets"
Ensemble Daedalus - Roberto Festa
Accent 23155
Delizie Napolitane
Old Neapolitan Love Songs
Ensemble Dadedalus - Roberto Festa
Accent 23159
Lassus: Oracula
Prophetiae Sibyllarum / Lectiones Sacrae
Ensemble Daedalus
Alpha 095
Musa Latina
L'invention de l'Antique
Daedalus - Roberta Festa
Alpha 144

And a collection:

The Art of Melancholy
Works by Dowland, Frescobaldi, and others
Ensemble Daedalus - Roberto Festa
Accent 30128 [2 CDs]

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Todd M. McComb