Italian Renaissance dances

Canzonetta
16c. canzoni & instrumental dances
The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 907127
Harmonia Mundi "Classical Express" 3957127

Contents:

  1. Vecchi: Saltarello detto Trivella
  2. Vecchi: Fammi una canzonetta capriciosa (w/ soprano)
  3. Banchieri: La Guamina
  4. Banchieri: L'Alcenagina sopra Vestiva i colli
  5. Banchieri: La Pomponazza
  6. Lodovico Agostini (1534-1586): All' arm', all' arm' (w/ soprano)
  7. Anon c.1590: Gagliarda detta Tamburin (lute)
  8. Anon c.1590: Quand mon mari alloit à la guerra (lute)
  9. Anon c.1590: Villanella (lute)
  10. Anon c.1590: Dove son quei fieri occhi? (lute)
  11. Anon c.1590: Fiamenga (lute)
  12. Vecchi: Non vo' pregare chi non m'ascolta (soprano & lute)
  13. Anon: Poi che pato per te
  14. Cosimo Bottegari: Sola soletta me ne vo (w/ soprano)
  15. Willaert: Io visans
  16. Anon: Più non amo e più non ardo (w/ soprano)
    S'amor col tempo
    I sotant' arso amore
    Tre leggiadre Ninfe
  17. Rore: Anchor che co'l partire (soprano & lute)
    Douglass: Divisions after 16c. models (violin solo)
  18. Vecchi: Fa una canzone senza note nere (w/ soprano & alto)
  19. Willaert: O bene mio fam' uno favore
  20. Giovanni Bassano (c.1558-1617): Divisions on "Frais et gaillard" by Clemens non Papa
  21. Vecchi: Mostrav' in ciel (w/ soprano)
  22. Thomas Crecquillon (d.c.1557): Onques amor
  23. Bassano: Divisions on "Onques amor"
  24. Anon c.1590: Io vorrei pur fuggir (lute)
  25. Anon: Danza (lute)
  26. Anon: Balla Tedesco (lute)
  27. Crecquillon: Content ou non
  28. Rore: S'equale a la mia voglia (w/ soprano)

Performers: Ellen Hargis (soprano), Nancy Meyer (alto), David Douglass (violin), Robert Mealy (violin), Jane Starkmen (viola), Scott Metcalfe (viola), Emily Walhout (cello), Paul O'Dette (lute)

Playing time: 79'

Recording date: October 1993

Excerpts:
[1], [19] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8016.20 Musique de la Renaissance Music - L'Europe Musicale au XVe et XVIe siècles

Along with dances music, this program features songs and instrumental adaptations of songs, by such major composers as Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605), Cypriano de Rore (1515-1605), Adrian Willaert (1490-1562) and Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634).

Other recordings by King's Noyse:

The King's Delight
17c. ballads for voice & violin band
The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 907101
The Queen's Delight
17th-century English Ballads and Dances
The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 907180
Tallis: Lamentations, Motets, String Music
Theatre of Voices - Paul Hillier / The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 90.7154
Stravaganze
17c. Italian songs & dances
The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 907159
Mascharada
Music at the Bückeburg Court of Ernst III
The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 907165
Rosenmüller
17th-Century Instrumental and Vocal Music
Hargis / King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 907179
Le Jardin de Mélodies
16th-century French Dances & Songs
The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 907194
Holborne: My Selfe
16th Century Pavans, Galliards, and Almains
Paul O'Dette / The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 907238
Pavanglia
Dances & Madrigals from 17th-century Italy
Paul O'Dette / Andrew Lawrence-King / The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 907246
Seaven Teares
Music of John Dowland
The King's Noyse - David Douglass / Paul O'Dette
Harmonia Mundi USA 907275

And one with a related ensemble:

Apollo's Banquet
17th-Century Music from the publications of John Playford
David Douglass / Paul O'Dette / Andrew Lawrence-King
Harmonia Mundi USA 907186

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Todd M. McComb