Musica del XV Secolo in Italia

Musica del XV Secolo in Italia
Ensemble Ars Italica
Tactus 40012201

Also issued under numbers Tactus 400201 & Tactus 400001.

Contents:

  1. Brassart: Gratulemur Christicole (6 voices, organ, lute, harp)
  2. Anon: Se ce n'estoit (harp, vielle, lute)
  3. Anon: Se je suis despourveu / Veni veni clerice (voice, organ, harp, lute, vielle, bombard)
  4. Anon: Maintenons nous / Resveilles qui dort / Chascun par acord (2 voices, organ, harp, lute, vielle, shawm, bombard)
  5. Anon: O gratiosa viola (2 voices, vielle, lute, harp, percussion)
  6. Anon: I ochi di una ançoleta (organ)
  7. Anon: Ave Mater o Maria (5 voices, shawm, bombard)
  8. Arnold de Lantins: In tua memoria (lute, organ)
  9. Anon: La belle se sit (voice, double flute, gittern)
  10. Anon: Noes vous point / Coq en l'orge / Coq en l'orge (6 voices, vielle, lute, harp, organ)
  11. Lymburgia: Imnizabo regi meo (shawm, bombard, percussion)
  12. Lymburgia: Salve Virgo regia (5 voices, vielle, lute, harp, slide trumpet, bombard)
  13. Pullois: De ma dame (vielle, lute, harp, organ)
  14. Fontaine: J'aime bien celui qui s'en va (voice, organ, lute, harp, vielle)
  15. Piacenza: Rostiboli gioioso (lute, vielle, harp)
  16. Anon: Hora may che fora son (voice, lute, vielle, harp, slide trumpet, bombard, dulcian)
  17. Anon: O partita crudele (shawm, slide trumpet, bombard, dulcian)
  18. Anon: A Florence / Helas la fille / En ma chambre (3 voices, shawm, slide trumpet, bombard, vielle, lute, harp)

Performers: Sigrid Lee (voice, vielle, direction), Gloria Moretti (voice), Alessandra Fiori (voice, portative organ), Claudio Cavina (voice), Marco Beasley (voice), Marco Ferrari (voice, double flute, shawm, bombard, direction), Giovanna Ferrari (voice), Francis Biggi (lute, gittern, direction), Perla Manfrè (harp), Guido Morini (organ), Pier G. Callegari (bombard, slide trumpet), Dante Bernardi (bombard, dulcian), Franco Perfetti (dulcian)

Playing time: 57'

Recording date: December 1988 (Bologna)

This program features a fine combination of sacred & secular works from Italy during the period, in a very lively interpretation.

Some other recordings which highlight different ends of this repertory:

Napoli Aragonese
Musica profana per la corte aragonese napoletana: secolo XV
Micrologus
Opus 111 30-215
The Cradle of the Renaissance
Italian music from the time of Leonardo da Vinci
Sirinu
Hyperion 66814
Il Cantar Moderno
Venetian and Neapolitan songs of the 15th Century
Ensemble Daedalus
Accent 9068
Venite a laudare
Obsidienne - Emmanuel Bonnardot
Opus 111 30-158
Chants de Carnaval
Lorenzo il Magnifico
Ensemble Doulce Mémoire - Denis Raisin-Dadre
Astrée 8626
La Musica Italiana del XV secolo
Ensemble Sine Nomine
Quadrivium 040
Alta Danza
Dance Music from 15th-century Italy
Ensemble Les Haulz et Les Bas / Véronique Daniels
Christophorus 77208
Venice, Splendour of the World
Music for Popes and Doges from 15th-century Italy
Dufay Consort - Gary Cooper
Dervorguilla 105

Finally, a couple of recordings of medieval material, sometimes with similarities to some of the present tracks, by other ensembles with similar memberships and styles:

Acantus
Sacred "songs of the people" from medieval Italy
Acantus
Gimell 462 516
Musicalis Scientia
Il canto goliardico nel medioevo
Sator Musicae - Roberto Meo
Tactus 230001

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Todd M. McComb