Music at the Court of Caterina de' Medici

Chenonceau
Music at the Court of Caterina de' Medici
Accademia del Ricercare - Pietro Busca
Stradivarius 33479

Contents:

  1. Pavana Lesquercarde (4 recorders, 4 shawms)
  2. Gagliarda La rocha el fuso (3 viols, 4 recorders, 3 shawms)
  3. La Roque Gaillarde (2 viols, 4 recorders, 4 shawms)
  4. Pavana (4 viols, 4 recorders)
  5. Branle de Champaigne (4 viols, 2 recorders, 4 shawms)
  6. Pavana El Bisson (4 viols, 3 recorders, flute)
  7. Saltarello El Marchese di Saluzzo (3 viols, 3 recorders, 3 shawms)
  8. Pavana La Ferrarese (4 viols, recorder, 4 shawms)
  9. Gagliarda La Ferrarese (4 viols, recorder, 4 shawms)
  10. Fantasia (4 viols, 5 recorders)
  11. Pavana des Dieux (lute, percussion)
  12. Gaillarde des Dieux (lute, percussion)
  13. Pavana Le forze d'Hercole (4 viols, 5 recorders)
  14. Les Bouffons (4 viols, recorder, 4 shawms)
  15. Gagliarda La Lavandara I (2 viols, 6 recorders)
  16. Gagliarda La Lavandara II (2 viols, 4 recorders, 4 shawms)
  17. Gagliarda La Lavandara I (tutti)
  18. Pavana de La Ragione (4 viols, 2 recorders, flute, lute)
  19. Saltarello de La Ragione (3 viols, 2 recorders, 3 shawms, crumhorm)
  20. Pavana La Garde (4 viols, lute)
  21. Gaillarde de La Garde (2 viols, 4 recorders, 4 shawms)
  22. Pavana La Garde (4 viols, 3 recorders, lute)
  23. Saltarello Giorgio (tutti)
  24. Saltarello Torza (tutti)
  25. Saltarello Zorzi (tutti)
  26. Pavana La Traditora (4 viols, recorder, flute, lute)
  27. Gagliarda La Traditora (3 viols, 2 recorders, flute, 3 crumhorns)
  28. Saltarello Basela un trato (2 shawms, 2 crumhorns)
  29. Saltarello La Comarina (3 viols, flute)
  30. Saltarello Basela un trato (3 viols, flute, 2 shawms, 2 crumhorns)
  31. Gagliarda La bone notte (4 viols, 6 recorders, crumhorn, percussion)

Performers: Germana Busca (recorder, flute), Luisa Busca (recorder), Claudia Ferrero (recorder, viol), Paolo Mollo (recorder, shawm, crumhorn), Linda Murgia (viol, recorder, shawm), Alessandro Percelsi (viol, recorder), Massimo Sartori (viol), Paolo Stagnoli (recorder, shawm, crumhorn), Roberto Terzolo (recorder, shawm, crumhorn, percussion), Gabriele Zappegno (recorder, shawm, crumhorn), Davide Rebuffa (lute), Pietro Busca (percussion), Luca Casalegno (percussion)

Playing time: 51'

Recording date: November 1996 (Torino)

Caterina de' Medici (1519-1589) married Henry de Valois in 1533, and came from Florence to France. She was eventually established at the castle Chenonceau (the present album's title) in 1559 after the death of the latter. Most of the present dance music is known more recently in its publication by Phalèse in Liber Primus leviorum carminum (1571) & Chorearum molliorum collectanea (1583), but the present performance is actually based on two earlier obscure Italian manuscripts in which much of Phalèse's music first appears.

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Todd M. McComb