Jacopo da Bologna - Italienische Madrigale

Jacopo da Bologna - Italienische Madrigale des 14. Jahrhunderts
Ensemble Project Ars Nova (P.A.N.)
Deutsche Harmonia mundi HM 738 A [LP]
Ars Musici AM 1274-2 [CD]

Contents:

    Jacopo da Bologna:
  1. Madrigal: Oseletto salvaçio
  2. Madrigal: I'me sun un (instrumental)
  3. Caccia: Oseletto salvaçio
  4. Madrigal: Prima virtute (instrumental)
  5. Madrigal: O in Italia
  6. Lauda / Ballata: Nel mio parlar
  7. Madrigal: Aquil' altera (instrumental)
  8. Triple Madrigal: Aquil' altera / Creatura gentil / Ucel de Dio
  9. Madrigal: Sotto l'imperio
  10. Madrigal: Avendo me falcon (instrumental)
  11. Madrigal: Lo lume vostro
  12. Motet: Lux purpurata radiis / Diligite justiciam
  13. Madrigal: Non al so amante (instrumental)
  14. Madrigal: Non al so amante
  15. Madrigal: Posando sopra un'aqua
  16. Madrigal: I'senti' çà

Sources:
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale f.n.a. fr. 6771 "Codex Reina"
Padova, Biblioteca Universitaria, Mss 1475
Firenza, Biblioteca Nazionale centrale, Panciatichiano 26

Playing time: 45' 57" (47' 20" - CD)

Performers:
Project Ars Nova (P.A.N.) [Michael Collver (counter-tenor, cornetto), Sterling Jones (fiddle, rebec, organetto, lute), Laurie Monahan (mezzo-soprano), Crawford Young (lute, cittern)] & Willem de Waal (baritone)

Recording site and date:
Musikakademie der Stadt, Basel, Switzweland [1985];
Rel.: 1985 (LP), 2001 (CD)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 520-84 (december 2004)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): ??

Comments:
Information from owned LP and CD, Lansing McLoskey, and Todd McComb's owned CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

Jacopo da Bologna (fl.c.1340-60) was one of the most important early composers of the Italian Ars Nova. Most of his work is known from Verona, where such luminaries as Petrarch, Dante, and Marchetto da Padova worked.

A more recent recording devoted to Jacopo:

Jacopo da Bologna: Madrigalli e Cacce
La Reverdie
Arcana 327

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Todd M. McComb