Venetian & Neapolitan Music for Consort of Viols

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

Contents:

  1. Antonio Valente: Tenore de Zefiro con duodeci mutanze (5 viols, violone, guitar, harpsichord, percussion)
  2. Marco Antonio Ferro (d.1662): Sonata 10 a quattro viole (4 viols, violone, theorbo, organ)
  3. Gesualdo: Gagliarda del Principe di Venosa (4 viols, guitar, percussion)
  4. Giovanni Salvatore (d.1613): Canzone Francese terza, del primo Tuono Finto per sonarsi con il Concerto di viole (4 viols)
  5. Francesco M. Bassani: Tocata del Signor Oratio Bassani (bass viol, violone, theorbo, organ)
  6. Giovanni Trabaci (c.1575-1647): Partite sopra Fedele (4 viols, violone, theorbo, organ, percussion)
  7. Trabaci: Consonanze Stravaganti (4 viols, violone, organ)
  8. Vitali / Piccinini / Storace: Ciaconna (bass viol, theorbo, organ, percussion)
  9. Gregorio Strozzi (1615-1687): Gagliarda terza, e per concerto di viole (4 viols, violone, theorbo, organ)
  10. Storace: Ballo della Battaglia (4 viols, violone, guitar, harpsichord, percussion)
  11. Trabaci: Canzona Francesca per concerto di viole ad arco (3 viols, violone, organ)
  12. Giovanni Buonamente (d.1642): Ballo del Gran Duca (3 viols, theorbo, harpsichord)
  13. Trabaci: Durezze, et ligature (3 viols, violone, organ)

Performers: Guido Balestracci (treble & bass viols), Rodney Prada (treble & bass viols, violone), Alba Fresno (tenor viol), Jordi Comellas (bass viol), Roberto Lambo (bass viol), Gioacchino de Padova (violone), Yasunori Imamura (theorbo, guitar), Massimiliano Raschietti (organ, harpsichord), Alberto Macchini (percussion)

Playing time: 61'

Recording date: August 1998 (Bologna)

The present program combines music arranged from that for other forces with that written explicitly for viol consort in Italy. It argues forcefully for a prominent role for the latter repertory.

A next volume:

Seconde Stravaganti
Venetian & Neapolitan Music for Consort of Viols
l'Amoroso - Guido Balestracci
Symphonia 99170

And a similarly motivated program by another ensemble:

La Tavola Cromatica
Un'accademia musicale dal Cardinale Barberini
Evelyn Tubb / The Earle his Viols - Uri Smilanski
Raum Klang 2302

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Todd M. McComb