Madrigals on viols

Io canterei d'amor
Chansons e Madrigali da sonare
Labyrinto Concerto di viole - Paolo Pandolfo
Harmonia Mundi "Documenta" HMC 90 5234 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Rore: Io canterei d'amor (madrigal a 4, 1550)
  2. Arcadelt: O felici occhi miei (madrigal a 4, 1539)
  3. Ortiz: O felici... (glosa, 1553)
  4. Ruffo: O felici... (capriccio a 3, 1564)
  5. Rore: Signor mio caro (madrigal a 4, 1550)
  6. Rore: Non è ch'il duol mi scemi (madrigal a 4, 1550)
  7. Bassano: Non è... (madrigal per sonar, 1591)
  8. Rore: Non gemme, non fin'oro (madrigal a 4, 1550)
  9. Janequin: Martin menoit (chanson, 1536)
  10. Ruffo: Martin... (capriccio a 3, 1564)
  11. Andrea Gabrieli: Martin... (a 4, 1605)
  12. Gabrieli: Anchor che col patire (after Rore, 1596)
  13. Richardo Rognono (d.c.1620): Anchor... (diminuire, 1592)
  14. Lassus: Susanne un jour (chanson a 4, 1560)
  15. Gabrieli: Susanne... (1605)
  16. Rore: Vergine bella (madrigal a 5, 1548)
  17. Orazio Bassani (c.1550-1609): Vergine bella (c.1620)
  18. Crecquillon: Ung gay bergier (chanson a 4, 1543)
  19. Gabrieli: Ung gay... (1605)
  20. Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno (madrigal a 4, 1539)

Performers: Paolo Pandolfo (soprano viol), Juan Manuel Quintana (alto viol), Guido Balestracci (tenor viol, viola bastarda), Gaetano Nasillo (bass viol), Remo Guerrini (violone)

Playing time: 59'

Recording date: January 1995;
Rel.: 1997

Excerpts:
[16], [17] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8016 / 20 [CDx5] Musique de la Renaissance Music - L'Europe Musicale au XVe et XVIe siècles
[13] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8172 [CD] La naissance d'un répertoire spécifiquement instrumental / The birth of a specifically instrumental repertory (1450-1659) - L'émergence de la musique instrumentale / The Rise of Instrumental Music.

This program consists of madrigals & chansons performed by a viol consort, as well as instrumental arrangements dating from the 16th century. A large part of the idea is to illustrate the art of diminution.

Other recordings featuring the present ensemble:

The Spirit of Gambo
Music by Tobias Hume
Emma Kirkby / Labyrinto - Paolo Pandolfo
Glossa 920402
Schmelzer: Sonata a 2, 3, 5, 6
da Sacro-Profanus Concentus Musicus e Duodena Selectarum Sonatarum
Ensemble Aurora - Enrico Gatti / Ensemble di viole Labyrinto - Paolo Pandolfo
Symphonia 91S07

And a solo recital by Paolo Pandolfo:

A Solo
Paolo Pandolfo
Glossa "Nouvelle Visions" 920403

An Italian viol consort program directed by one of the present performers:

Consonanze Stravaganti
Venetian & Neapolitan Music for Consort of Viols
l'Amoroso - Guido Balestracci
Symphonia 98161

Recordings of similar conception:

Word Play
Virtuosic instrumental settings of madrigals and chansons from 16th century Italy
Musica Antiqua - Philip Thorby
Signum 031
Monteverdi: Third Book of Madrigals for viol consort
Sex Chordæ Consort of Viols
Centaur 2482

A program of related conception, this time by a recorder group:

Ancor che col partire
Diminutionen des 16. Jahrhunderts
Flautando Köln
Ars Musici 1286

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Todd M. McComb