Chominciamento di gioia

Chominciamento di gioia
Virtuoso dance music from the time of Boccaccio's Decamerone
Ensemble Unicorn
Naxos 8.553131

Contents

    Anon., Italy
  1. Chominciamento di gioia
    Saltarello No. 4
  2. Lamento di Tristano - La Rotta
  3. Belicha
  4. Tre fontane
  5. Parlamento
  6. Principio di virtú
  7. Saltarello No. 1
  8. Trotto
  9. Saltarello No. 2
  10. Isabella
  11. Ghaetta
  12. Saltarello No. 3
  13. In pro
  14. La Manfredina - La Rotta

Recorded:
Tontstudio W.A.R., Vienna Austria [01/1994]

Performers:
Ensemble Unicorn, Vienna
Michael Posch (recorders), Marco Ambrosini (keyed fiddle, fiddle, mandorla, kuhhorn, shawm, ocarina), Riccardo Delfino (harp, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipe, dulcimer), Thomas Wimmer (ud, fiddle, saz, vihuela d'arco), Wolfgang Reithofer (percussions)]

Compilation:
Naxos 8.505075 [CDx5] Faszination Alte Musik - Lieder & Tänze des Mittelalters

Excerpts:
[2], [7] Naxos 8.503192 [CD] Time of the Templars

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 73/867-98 (august 1995)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 19/2- (november/december 1995)

Correction and comment from Sergey Lebedev: All anonymous compositions are taken from the well known Ms. GB-LBm Add. 29987 (so called 'Codex Lo'), probably of the Italian late Trecento provenance.

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Pierre-F. Roberge