Monteverdi's Contemporaries

Monteverdi's Contemporaries
The Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow, dir.
EMI (His Master's Voice) ASD 3393 [LP]
Angel S 37 524 [LP, quad]
CDM (or VER 5) 61 288 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Giorgio Mainerio: Il primo libro di balli (1578)
    1. Pass'e mezo della paganina
    2. Ballo francese
    3. La lavandera
    4. L'arboscello ballo furlano
    5. La zanetta

    2. Gioseffo Guami: Canzoni per sonar
  2. Canzona a 8

    3. Pietro Lappi: Canzoni per sonar
  3. La negrona

    4. Giovanni Priuli: Sacrorum concentuum
  4. Canzona prima a 12
  5. Mainerio: Il primo libro di balli (1578)
    1. Pass'e mezzo moderno
    2. Ballo anglese
    3. Schirazula marazula
    4. Ongarescha
    5. Tedescha

    6. ----
    Ercole Porta: Sacro convito musicale (1620)
  6. Corda Deo dabimus

    7. Cherubino Busatti: Compago ecclesiastico
  7. Surrexit Pastor bonus

    8. Ignazio Donati: Concerti ecclesiastici
  8. In te Domini speravi

    9. Sigismondo d'India: Novi concentus ecclesiastici
  9. Isti sunt duae olivae

    10. Alessandro Grandi: Motetti con sinfonie, libro I
  10. O vos omnes

    11. Alessandro Grandi: Motetti con sinfonie, libro III
  11. O beate benedicte

Playing time: 59' 13"

Performers:
The Early Music Consort of London
James Bowman (counter-tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael Laird (cornett), Ian Wilson (cornett), Graham Whiting (cornett), Alan Lumsden (cornett, sackbut, recorder), Roger Brenner (sackbut), Peter Goodwin (sackbut), Paul Beer (sackbut), Martin Nichols (sackbut), John Turner (recorder, flute, crumhorn, rauschpfeiffen), David Pugsley (recorder, flute crumhorn), Andrew van der Beek (recorder, crumhorn, rackett, dulcian, rauschpfeiffen), James Tyler (flute, crumhorn, viol, mandora, cittern), David Munrow (crumhorn, shawm), Oliver Brookes (crumhorn, viol, violone), Simon Standage (violin), Eleanor Sloan (violin), Polly Waterfield (violin, viola, viol), Trevor Jones (viol), Jane Ryan (viol), Nigel North (viol, lute, chitarrone, baroque guitar), Christopher Hogwood (hasrpsichord, regal, organ), Nicholas Kraemer (organ), David Corkhill (percussion)
David Munrow, dir.

Recording site and date:
Abbey Road Studios, London [11/1975]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 53/635-1650 (apr. 1976)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Excerpts:
[1]-[5] Virgin "Veritasx2" 9463 50003 2 0 [CDx2] Renaissance Dance: Susato - Morley - Praetorius - Mainerio.

Comments:
Information from owned LP (Angel) and CD.
One of the last Munrow's LP, released two months prior to his death.

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Pierre-F. Roberge