mercoledì 28 marzo 2007

El Cant de la Sibil-la - Figueras/Savall (Voll.1-2-3)

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The Song of the Sibyl (Catalan: El Cant de la Sibil·la is a liturgical drama and a Gregorian chant, the lyrics of which compose a prophecy describing the Apocalypse, which has been performed at some churches of Majorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) and Alghero (Sardinia, Italy) in Catalan language on Christmas Eve nearly uninterrruptedly since medieval times. It was declared a Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO on November 16, 2010.

Several versions, differing in text and music, exist.

- - Latin Sibyl, from 10th-11th century, which incorporates fragments of The City of God (XVIII, 23) by St. Augustine
- - Provençal Sibyl, from the 13th century, reflecting influence of troubadour poetry
- - Catalan Sibyl. The latest and most ornamented version. Incorporates popular traditions of Balearic Islands. Refrain of this version is sometimes written for three or four voices

The author of The Song of the Sibyl is unknown. The prophecy was first recorded as an acrostic poem in Greek by bishop Eusebius of Caesarea and later translated into Latin by Saint Augustine in The City of God. It appeared again in the 10th century in different locations across Catalonia, Italy, Castile, and France in the sermon Contra judeos, later inserted into the reading of the sixth lesson of the second nocturn of matins and was performed as an integral part of the liturgy.

This chant was originally sung in Latin and under the name of Judicii Signum, but from the 13th on, versions in Catalan are found.

These early Catalan versions of the Judici Signum were not directly translated from Latin. Instead, they all come from a previous adaptation in Provençal, which proves the huge popularity this song must have had in the past.

Amongst the Catalan texts which come from this common root, there is a 14th century Codex kept in the Archives of the Majorcan Diocese, which was rediscovered in 1908. Oral transmission and the lack of written scripts has caused the various old texts in the vernacular to suffer many modifications over time, which has led to a diversity of versions.

The Song of the Sibyl was almost totally abandoned throughout Europe after the Council of Trent (held in 25 sessions from 1545 to 1563) declared its performance was forbidden. Nevertheless, it was restored on Mallorca as soon as in 1575.

Originally, the Song of the Sibyl was sung in a Gregorian melody and, as it can be seen in the Codex previously mentioned, the musical accompaniment that was played in Majorca, with the exception of some variations, was the same documented in other places across the Iberian Peninsula. Today, it cannot be ascertained for certain when the Song of the Sibyl was sung to this Gregorian melody, but most likely until the 16th or 17th century. Oral transmission of the song caused, as it did with the text, the birth of different variations and models. The interest this chant produced amongst early Musicologists and Folklorists of the 19th century led to the transcription of the different known versions of the song. The versions still played nowadays take these transcriptions as model.
(Wikipedia)

Carceres - Villancicos & Ensaladas

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Contents:

1. B. Ramos de Pareja
Canon perpetum Mundus et Musica et totus concentus (instr.)

2. Anon.
Villancico Si us voleu ben despertar

3. Anon.
Villancico Ay luna que reluzes

4. Luys Milán
Pavana (instr.)
Gallarda (instr.)

5. Bartomeu Càrceres
Villancico Soleta i verge estich

6. Anon.Luys de Narvaez
Conque la lavaré
Conque la lavaré (variations by Luys de Narvaez)

7. Anon.
Danza alta (instr.)

8. Bartomeu Càrceres
Villancico Falalalanlera

9. Anon.
Villancico No la devemos dormir

10. Luys Milàn
Fantasia VIII

11. Bartomeu Càrceres
Ensalada a 4 La Trulla

Sources
Cancionero de Uppsala and works based on them

Performers
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Maite Arruabarrena (soprano), Isabel Alvarez (soprano), Luiz Alves Da Silva (counter-tenor), Paolo Costa (counter-tenor), Josep Maria Gregori (counter- tenor), Jean Yves Guerry (counter-tenor), Francesc Garrigosa (tenor), Lambert Climent (tenor), Pedro Ormazabal (tenor), Josep Cabré (baritone), Jordi Ricart (baritone), Daniele Carnovich (bass), Jordi Savall (treble viol), Eunice Brandão (alto viol), Sergi Casademunt (tenor viol), Pedro Pandolfo (bass viol), Lorenz Duftschmid (violone), Rolf Lislevand (guitar, vihuela), Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornet), Alfredo Bernardini (shawm), Daniel Lassalle (sackbut), Josep Borras (bassoon), Pedro Estevan (percussion)
Jordi Savall, dir.


martedì 27 marzo 2007

Il Giardino Armonico - Viaggio musicale

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Viaggio Musicale - a voyage from Milan to Venice, through North-Italian music and the flourishing culture of the legendary seicento: while Santa Maria della Salute was being built in Venice, while Galilei was presenting his newly invented telescope on the tower of St Mark's, and while Nicola Amati was establishing the famous Italian violin-making trade in Cremona, composers such as Monteverdi, Rossi, Castello and many others were developing stunning new forms of expressive and virtuoso instrumental music.


Claudio Monteverdi - Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, opera in 3 acts, SV 325 (Sinfonia)
Tarquinio Merula - Chiacona (from Canzoni overo sonate ..., 1637)
Tarquinio Merula - Work(s) (Improvisation)
Dario Castello - Sonata
Giovanni Battista Spadi - Anchor che co'l partire (after a madrigal by Cipriano de Rore)
Giovanni Battista Spadi - Work(s) (Improvisation)
Dario Castello - Sonata Concertate No. 10 "in stil moderno" for 2 sopranos, bass & basso continuo
Giovanni Battista Riccio - Sonata a 4
Giovanni Battista Riccio - Work(s) (Improvisation)
Biagio Marini - Sonata sopra "La Monica", for chamber instruments & continuo
Marco Uccellini - Aria quinta sopra la Bergamasca (Book 3)
Salomone Rossi - Sinfonia a 3
Giovanni Battista Fontana - Sonata No.15 for 2 cornettos, dulcian, organ & continuo
Alessandro Piccinini - Work(s) ([Unspecified] Toccata)
Marco Uccellini - Sonata XVIII
Salomone Rossi - Sinfonia a 3
Francesco Rognoni - Variations on Palestrina's Vestiva i colli, for soprano viola da gamba & continuo
Salomone Rossi - Gagliarda detta Zambalina a 4
Salomone Rossi - Sinfonia grave a 5
Tarquinio Merula - La Cattarina
Marco Uccellini - Aria Sopra "La scatola degli aghi" (from Op. 4)
Giovanni Paolo Cima - Work(s) ([Unspecified] Sonata)
Tarquinio Merula - Ruggiero
Salomone Rossi - Gagliarda detta Norsina a 5


domenica 25 marzo 2007

Roman de Fauvel

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STUDIO DER FRÜHEN MUSIK - Thomas Binkley
Written by several authors between 1310 and 1316, the Roman de Fauvel is a virulent pamphlet against the corruption that reigned at the royal court of France, and at the Papal court in Avignon. But the story of the donkey Fauvel is also a fascinating manifesto concerning music and literature at the dawn of the fourteenth century. All the main genres current at the time are to be found in it, mixed together in a most appealing way. There are gregorian chants, and complex motets of the Ars Nova, not to mention courtly love songs, and scatological street cries.