Antonio Vivaldi (Suzie Le Blanc)

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O qui coeli terraeque serenitas, RV.631
Salve Regina, RV.617
Laudate pueri Dominum, RV.601
Vos aurae per montes, RV.634


Suzie Le Blanc, soprano

Gottfried von der Goltz, violin
Claire Guimond, flute
Peter Frankenberg & Frank de Bruine, oboe

Teatro Lirico
dir. Stephen Stubbs

G.P.Telemann - Tutti Flauti!

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This CD is extraordinary in many ways, starting with the absolutely perfect choice of works. Granted, Telemann concertos are more or less foolproof, and it takes a pretty bad musician to ruin any piece by this composer. But even so, among all the delicious Telemann concertos available, these are some of the most scrumptious. Furthermore, they are served to the listener on a silver plate, with the best of sauces, and cooked by the best chefs.(...)
I will be quite direct: simply put, this is one of the best flute CDs that I have heard in quite a while, and it belongs in every library and collection. FANFARE: Laura Rónai

Beautiful and impressive playing like this sets the standards to which others must aspire! Early Music Review

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Concerto grosso in e minor for two flutes, violin
string orchestra and continuo TWV 53:e 1
Concerto in a minor for recorder, viola da gamba
string orchestra and continuo TWV 52:a 1
Concert in F Major for recorder
string orchestra and continuo TWV 51:F 1
Concerto grosso in b minor for two flutes, bassoon
string orchestra and continuo TWV 53:h 1
Concerto in B Flat Major for two recorders
string orchestra and continuo TWV 52:B 1
Concerto in e minor for flute, recorder
string orchestra and continuo TWV 52:e 1


Matthias Maute, recorder
Sophie Larivière, recorder
Claire Guimond, baroque flute
Mika Putterman, baroque flute

Arion Baroque Orchestra
Guest conductor Jaap ter Linden

Ghirardello da Firenze: Madrigali, Cacce, Ballate

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Ghirardello da Firenze (also known as Giovanni da Cascia) was a composer of the Italian trecento and a contemporary of Francesco Landini; he was also one of the earliest members of the so-called "Florentine Group" that dominated musical currents in the middle of the 14th century. Judging from the proliferation of his works in various manuscripts, Ghirardello's music was widely known and often played; he was also a pioneer in the production of madrigals. Despite his contemporary renown and excellent survival rate, the 14th century was a long, long time ago and even Landini doesn't have very many collections devoted solely to his work. On Nuova Era's Ghirardello da Firenze: Madrigali Cacce, Ballate Dal Codice Squarcialupi, period ensemble group Ensemble Modo Antiquo, led by Federico Maria Sardelli, plunge into the famed Squarcialupi Codex in order to extract a selection of 16 pieces by Ghirardello.

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E Cantare E Sonare Carolare
01 - Per Non Far Liet'alcun
02 - Allo Spirar Dell'arie Brun
03 - I' Vo' Bene a Chi Vol Bene a Me
04 - Donna, L'altrui Mirar Che Fate
05 - Cacciando Un Giorno Alla Vaga Foresta
06 - Si Forte Vola La Pernice Bella
07 - Deponi Amor a Me
08 - Una Colomba Più Che Neve Bianca
09 - I' Vo Amando Sempre Con Paura
10 - Sotto Verdi Fraschetti
Cacciando In Villa
11 - Tosto Che L'alba
12 - Per Prender Cacciagion
13 - Intrand' Ad Abitar Per Una Selva
14 - La Bella E La Vezzosa Cavriola
15 - L'aquila Bella Negra
16 - Con Levrieri E Mastini

Ensemble Modo Antiquo
Federico Maria Sardelli
Bettina Hoffmann

A warning!

Usually I prefer to buy the actual CD, even if second hand, but sometimes I buy digital music.
Amazon isn't allowed to sell that in my country so I try to find other ways.

Passionato used to be OK, but not too much choice.

Some days ago I bought two CDs in MP3 format for around €20 from 7Digital. The download operation was fine and smooth and the MP3 sounded OK, but... no booklet, no cover, not a txt with notes... nothing.
In this section of their site they wrote:

All new and recently-added MP3 downloads will contain artwork but downloads from the older part of our catalogue may not. However, we are working to deliver artwork with all MP3 downloads.

The music I downloaded was released this year, I supposed this qualify it as new.

So I wrote to them asking an explanation. They answered, but they "tweaked" their infos telling that if artwork is provided it will be made clear in the product page.

No hope, still I felt it was not right and ask them to remove the misleading piece of info from their site. They answered something generic but as today their site is always presenting the same false info.

So, be warned: I'm sure there are safest and cleaner places to buy your digital music from.

Tracce della Tradizione Orale in Manoscritti Italiani del XIV, XV sec.

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Andrea Stefani - I senti' matutino
Corsican Traditional - Culomba amata
Anonymous - Dolce lo mio drudo
Anonymous - Tribbiera
Anonymous - Donna fallante
Italian Traditional - Alla metitora
Anonymous - Con dogliosi martiri
Anonymous - Strençi li labri
Italian Traditional - Stabat mater
Anonymous - Ogn'om m'entenda (Venezia, Bibl. Naz. Marciana, IX, 145)
Anonymous - Alzando gli ochi (Venezia, Bibl. Naz. Marciana, I)
Anonymous - Misericordia altissimo dio, laude (Venezia I)
Corsican Traditional - Stabat mater
Anonymous - Non so qual'i mi voglia (Palatino 87)
Anonymous - Su la rivera
Piero - Chavalcando Con Un Giovine Accorto
Anonymous - E vatende segnor mio


Patrizia Bovi (voice, tambourine)
Gilberte Casabianca (voice)

Eduardo Paniagua CD Collection [101 albums]

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Eduardo Paniagua (born 1952 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish architect and musician, specializing in medieval Spanish music.
Between 1966 and 1983, he was a member of the group Atrium Musicae de Madrid, led by his older brother Gregorio, playing wind instruments and percussion. More recently he has been a founding member of the groups Cálamus and Hoquetus which specialize in the music of Arabic Andalusia.
In 1994, he created the group Música Antigua to perform and record the Cantigas de Santa Maria. In the same year he also founded the group Ibn Báya Ensemble together with the oud player Omar Metioui, for the performance and recording of Andalusian music. Other regular collaborators include Moroccan singers Said Belcadi, Mohammed El-Arabi Serghini, and the Algerian oud player Salim Fergani.

Atrium Musicae de Madrid

Perhaps the group's most famous recording is Musique de la Grèce Antique (Music of Ancient Greece), in which they performed ancient Greek music carefully taken down off scattered fragments of still existing papyrus. Performing the ancient compositions also meant the reconstruction of an arsenal of ancient instruments. This certainly was a fascinating aspect of the group's life performances during a series of acclaimed international tours. The success of this 1978 recording is not the only feather in the group's collective cap. The 1976 Musique Arabo-Andalouse delves into Hispanic-Moslem music, and is credited with creating a whole new interest in this fascinating genre of southern Spain. From the late 1970s into the early 1980s the group began a series of recordings dealing with 15th and 16th century popular Spanish songs, then sailed to the New World for the fascinating Las Indias de Espana, a recording of Pre-Columbian music collected from archives. The decision to dissolve the group was no doubt based on some of the younger brothers' interest in beginning solo careers.

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Colección Cantigas de Alfonso X

-PN-010 Cantigas de Toledo
-PN-020 Cantigas de Castilla y León
-PN-210 Cantigas de Castilla-La Mancha
-PN-220 Cantigas de Santa María del Puerto-1
-PN-240 Remedios Curativos-Cantigas
-PN-280 Virgen de Atocha-Cantigas De Madrid
-PN-340 Bestiario-Cantigas de Animales
-PN-400 Cantigas de Flauta y Tamboril
-PN-420 Cantigas de Extremadura
-PN-490 Caballeros-Cantigas
-PN-510 Cantigas de Italia
-PN-520 Cantigas de Francia
-PN-570 Cantigas de Jerez
-PN-590 Cantigas de Sevilla (doble)
-PN-610 La Vida de María (doble)
-PN-680 El Camino de Santiago-Cantigas (??????)
-PN-700 Rosa de Las Rosas-Cantigas
-PN-740 Cantigas para Viola de Rueda
-PN-820 Cantigas Celtas (Merlin)
-PN-860 Cantigas de Valencia
-PN-880 Cantigas de Bizancio (doble)
-PN-980 Cantigas de Catalunya
-PN-990 Cantigas de Inglaterra
-PN-1080 Cantigas de Burgos
-PN-1090 Cantigas de Alemania
-PN-1150 Cantigas de Flandes
-PN-1170 Cantigas del Mar Cantábrico
-PN-1230 Cantigas de Mujeres

Colección Al-Ándalus

-PN-050 Medieval Women's songs
-PN-090 Luz de la Mediterranía
-PN-100 Tres Culturas
-PN-120 Jardín de Al-Ándalus
-PN-170 Alarifes Mudéjares
-PN-230 Poemas de la Alhambra
-PN-250 Nuba Al-Istihlal >>>------> Vedi EP-NAI.rar
-PN-290 La Felicidad Cumplida, Alcázar de Sevilla
-PN-320 Agua de La Alhambra
-PN-360 Ibn Arabi, El Intérprete de Los deseos
-PN-370 La Llamada de Al-Andalus
-PN-430 La Fuente del Amor Secreto
-PN-500 Wallada-Ibn Zaydún
-PN-530 Ritual Sufí Ándalusí
-PN-550 Aire de Al-Ándalus (compilation)
-PN-630 Nuba Al-Maya
-PN-640 Cantos de la Noche-Nuba Rasd D-Dail
-PN 650 Cantos Sufíes de Al-Ándalus
-PN-690 Latidos de Al-Ándalus
-PN-750 - Almuédano
-PN-800 Puentes sobre el Mediterráneo (compilation)
-PN-970 Cantos Místicos Devocionales
-PN-1050 Agua de Al-Ándalus (compilation)
-PN-1100 El Agua y los Arabes (compilation)
-PN-1110 Tesoros de Al-Ándalus
-PN-1120 Pasión Sufí
-PN-1140 Zambra de Moriscos
-PN-1200 Cantos de Mujeres en las Tres Culturas (compilation)

Colecciones Histórica y Tradición

-PN-060 Ecos del Espíritu
-PN-350 La Música de Pneuma (compilation)
-PN-450 El Cantar de la Conquista de Almería
-PN-470 El Crisol del Tiempo
-PN-660 La Conquista de Granada
-PN-710 Juana I de Castilla
-PN-900 España del Cid (compilation)
-PN-950 La Batalla de Alarcos
-PN-1010 Trovadores En Castilla. Alfonso VIII
-PN-1070 La Flauta de Hueso de Alarcos (******)
-PN-1160 La Rosa de La Alhambra. Washington Irving
-PN-1270 El Canto Visigótico-Mozárabe
-PN-1320 L’Amore mi fa Sollazar. Leonardo Da Vinci

Colección Histórica Judeo-Sefardí

-PN-270 Canciones de Sefarad
-PN-540 Morada del Corazón
-PN-580 Maimónides
-PN-780 Sefarad en Diáspora
-PN-810 Klezmer Sefardí

Other

-PN-260 - La Belleza Contemplada
-PN-560 - Cantoras de Tetuán - Cantos tradicionales del Norte de Marruecos
-PN-770 - Rumí · Ibn Arabí (Paniagua).rar
-PN-1040 - Cautivo de Amor
-EP-MAA - Musica Arabigo Andaluza s. XIII-XIV - Cantigas de Martin Codax s. XIII (Paniagua)
-EP-DME - Danzas Medievales Españolas.rar
-EP-OMMME - Obras Maestras de la Musica Medieval Espanola (E.Paniagua).rar
-EP-NAI . Nuba Al-Istihlal (Omar Metioui & Eduardo Paniagua)
-EP-SAA - The Splendour of Al-Andalus (Calamus).rar
-S2K-60580 - Obras Maestras de las Cantigas (Compilation)


Atrium Musicae de Madrid


-GP-AN - Ars Nova S. XIV
-GP-CAE - Canto Antiguo Espanol
-GP-CG - Codex Gluteo
-GP-CH - El Códice de las Huelgas
-GP-FA - Fandango
-GP-FO - La Folia
-GP-S - La Spagna
-GP-CHAX - Las Cantigas de Hita de Alfonso X, El Sabio (1230-1284)
-GP-IE - Las Indias de Espana
-GP-MI - Musica Iucunda (Paniagua)
-GP-MAA - Musique Arabo-Andalouse
-GP-MGA - Musique de la Grece Antique
-GP-TT - Tarentule-Tarentelle
-GP-TN - Thibaut de Navarre
-GP-V - Villancicos

Colecion de Musica Antigua Espanola:

-CdMAE-MC - La Música en Cataluña hasta el siglo XIV
-CdMAE-CSM - Las Cantigas de Santa Maria
-CdMAE-MCM - Monodia Cortesana Medieval - Música Arábigo-Andaluza

This compilation of records comes from different sources, some of the CDs are my own, some are made available from Avax (mainly Solaz, Yerbas...), some from Sonusantiqva, one from Abdel, some I don't remember.
Most of the infos comes from www.medieval.org

Links above lead you to a folder containing RARred files. They are identified by a catalog number, sometime it is official, sometime it is not.
(i.e. PN-010 Cantigas de Toledo is PN-010.rar, GP-MGA - Musique de la Grece Antique is GP-MGA.rar)
I posted an index on Avax (Here it would have taken too much space)
By reading THIS index you should be able to find out what you want.

Enjoy it.

Sonatas & Trio Sonatas for Oboe & BC

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Vivaldi - Sonata C minor RV 53
Vivaldi - Trio Sonata in G minor RV 81
Handel - Sonata in C minor Op.1 n°8 HWV 366
Handel - Minuet in G minor (HWV 540b) for harpsichord
Handel - Sonata in B flat major n°2 (Fitzwilliam) HWV 357
Handel - Suite in D minor for harpsichord HWV 437
Handel - Sonata in F major Op.1 n°4a HWV 363a
Handel - Air in F major from 'Water Music' (HWV 464) for harpsichord
Handel - Trio Sonata in B flat major HWV 380

Marcel Ponseele, oboe
Ann Vanlancker, oboe (trio Sonatas)
Ewald Demeyere, hapsichord
Richte Van Der Meer, violoncello

Dinastia Borgia

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Disc: 1

1. Billadi Askara Min adbi Llama, traditional mowachah
2. Le Ductia
3. Saltarello, for ensemble (after G. Dufay)
4. Da pacem Domine, antiphon for 3 voices, K. 34
5. Deserts d'amichs, de béns e de senyor (Recitation)
6. Ce jour de l'an, rondeau for 3 voices
7. Correno multi cani, strambotto-caccia, CM 140
8. Zappay lo campo, strambotto, CM20
9. Ave maris stella, hymn for 3 voices (2 versions)
10. Makam Muhayyer 'Küme' usules Düyek - A cemler, war march for ensemble
11. Exultet caelum laudibus, vespers hymn (66)
12. Adoramus te Domine, for 4 voices, CM 4
13. Viva el Gran Re Don Fernando
14. Miserere nostri / Vexilla Regis, for 4 voices, CM 106
15. Le gran dolor (Recitation)
16. El cervel mi fa
17. Patres nostri peccaverunt, for 4 voices
18. De tous biens plaine, chanson
19. Ottoman Tasim & Dance, for kaval & percussion
20. Viva el gran Re Don Fernando con la Reina Don Isabella
21. Lamento per la morte di Lorenzo Il Magnifico (Recitation)
22. La rosa enflorece, song

Disc: 2

1. Salva regis Mater / Hic sacerdos, for vocal ensemble
2. Adonay malakh geout labech (Psalm 93) (Portugal)
3. Elogio de Lucrecia (Recitation)
4. Nymphes des bois/Requiem aeternam/Deploration de la Mort de Jehan Ockeghem, lament for 5 parts
5. Fortuna Desperata
6. Absalon, Fili Mi, motet for 4 parts (poss. spurious)
7. Un Cavalier Di Spagna, for consort
8. Torture and Execution of Savonarola, for drums & bells
9. Birth of Rodrigo, the son of Lucrezia and Alfonso ('Une musique de Buscaye'), for ensemble (after Josquin Desprez)
10. Donna, questa è la mia voglia
11. Si abrá en estre baldrés, villancico
12. Amor la tua virtute, madrigal (doubtful)
13. Absolve quesumus/Requiem aeternam, motet for 6 parts
14. Pavana alla ferrarese, for lute
15. Éloge de la duchesse de Ferrara (Recitation)
16. Aquí yaze u poco tierra, epitaph for voice, soprano viol & bass viol
17. Castalios latices ploranda (Recitation)
18. Missa 'Hercules Dux Ferrariae', for 4 parts: Agnus Dei
19. The Trumpets of the Apocalypse, fanfare for ensemble
20. Sibil-la Valenciana (Valencia) (reconstructed by J. Savall after Alfonso de Mondéjar & Bartolomé Cárceres)

Disc: 3

1. Fantasia 1
2. La Battaglia, for lute
3. Proch Dolor / Pie Jhesu, for 7 voices (attributed)
4. Todos los buenos soldados (Fragmento de la Ensalada 'La Guerra')
5. Fantasia No. 2 for lute
6. Tau garcó la durundena
7. Meis olhos van por lo mare, song
8. Égloga IIII: Aquella voluntad honesta y pura (Recitation)
9. Jubilate Deo Omnis Terra, for 6 voices
10. O Voy
11. Credo
12. Kyrie No. 1 for lute
13. Alma, buscarte has en Mi, contrafacta of 'Dama, mi grande querer' (CMP)
14. Lachrimosa dies illa, motet
15. Mille regretz, song for 4 parts
16. The Turks Attack Malta, traditional Turkish improvisation & dance for ensemble
17. Fanfare
18. Psalm 35: Deba contre mes debateurs, for vocal ensemble
19. Requiem: Pie Jesu Domine
20. El Rey y por S.M. Don Luis Carrillo, page 34 (Valencia 1611) (Recitation)
21. Lament for the Expulsion of the Moors, improvisation for ensemble
22. Tiento XVII de 'Pange lingua' 5th tone punto alto


Hesperion XXI
dir. Jordi Savall

Hispania & Japan - Dialogues

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In 2006 Road to the Orient was released by Alia Vox. This double album was a musical portrait of Francisco Javier and of his trip from Spain to Japan. On this occasion, Jordi Savall met Japanese musicians who soon became his friends and with whom he performed in many concerts around the world. Consequently, following the catastrophes in Japan, Jordi Savall decided to release this special tribute album in which the most significant pieces of the dialogue between Spain and Japan are gathered.

All profits will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross. (Think about it!)

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1. Improvisación sobre "O Gloriosa Domina"
2. O Gloriosa Domina (greg.)
3. Improvisación sobre "O Gloriosa Domina"
4. Quod Eva Tristis II
5. Improvisación sobre "O Gloriosa Domina"
6. Tu Regis Alti Ianua III
7. Improvisación sobre "O Gloriosa Domina"
8. Patri Sit Paraclito IV
9. DE NARVAEZ O Gloriosa Domina Diferencia II
10. O Gloriosa Domina - Amen La Capella Reial
11. DE HENESTROSA.Himno XX O Gloriosa Domina
12. Rangyoku
13. ANÓNIMO. Villancico: Senhora del Mundo
14. Anónimo. Alba&Rotundellus
15. Honnôj Yukio Tanaka, chant & biwa
16. O Gloriosa Domina Diferencia I
17. Shino no netori
18. ANÓNIMO (China). AveMaría (pentatónica)
19. Reibo



Hiroyuki Koinuma
Yukio Tanaka
Ichiro Seki
Masako Hirao
Ken Zuckerman
Prahbu Edouart

Hesperion XXI - La Capella Reial De Catalunya
Montserrat Figueras & Jordi Savall

Music of Prague Palace and Gardens 1620

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…The music included in this volume is exclusively Italian, and by now its composers have almost fallen into oblivion. However, Troilus' interest in them proves their remarkable value. One of them, Enrico Radesca di Fogia, an organist and since 1615 a conductor of the Duke's music ensemble in Turin, is in fact represented by a unique collection of all the five books of canzonette, arias and madrigals. Among them, there …Thanks to the care devoted by the Milanese dance master Cesare Negri to the preparation of his treatise for press (1602), a number of pieces composed as occasional music has been preserved, unlike many others which did not have the honour to be recorded permanently. In his effort to provide the reader with the musical accompaniment to the published dances and balletti, he recorded a host of unique compositions, albeit often in rough outline only. …..In most of the parts of the volume, vocal - monodic music is predominant. These monophonic songs - accompanied monodies - were among the novelties of the time and the reason why they appeared was the difficult comprehensibility of the text of polyphonic compositions.

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[1] - Enrico Radesca di Foggia - Filli dolce pastorella (Amare mente è tempo)
[2] - Giacomo Fornaci - O bell'arco d'Amore (Amorosa arciera)
[3] - Enrico Radesca di Foggia - Corrente
[4] - Enrico Radesca di Foggia - Da ricca pianta (Fiori colti per man di bella Dama)
[5] - Antonio Brunelli - Piangerem sempre
[6] - Giovanni Battista Muti - Corrente
[7] - Antonio Brunelli - Accorta lusinghiera
[8] - Antonio Brunelli - Perchè duo baci
[9] - Enrico Radesca di Foggia - Nizzarda Francese
[10] - Enrico Radesca di Foggia - Mi lasci ingrata solo (Instabil Donna e risoluto Amante)
[11] - Giovanni Francesco Capello - M'impone Amor
[12] - Cesare Negri - La catena d'Amore
[13] - Enrico Radesca di Foggia - Occhi, stelle amorose
[14] - Giovanni Francesco Capello - Strana armonia d'Amore
[15] - Enrico Radesca di Foggia - Sy vos pretendeys guererme (Canzonetta Spagnola)
[16] - Cesare Negri & Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi - Alta Mendozza
[17] - Antonio Brunelli - Di ros'hebbi la guancia
[18] - Enrico Radesca di Foggia - Chi mi sente cantar Il canto de gl'amant'ol pi delle volte nascere da dolore)
[19] - Girolamo Marinoni - O Rex Gloriae - 2:43
[20] - Giacomo Fornaci - Ah dolente partita (Amor crudele)
[21] - Giovanni Francesco Capello - Caro sensal Amore
[22] - Cesare Negri - Ballo fatto da sei Cavalieri
[23] - Antonio Brunelli - Bocc'amorosa
[24] - Giulio Caccini - Se ridete gioiose
[25] - Antonio Brunelli - Balletto à 5
- Ballo Grave - Di quel nudo pargoletto
- Gagliarda - Alle pigge alme
- Corrente - Nelle vaghe trecce


Ad Vocem
dir. Pøemysl Vacek

La Vendetta

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E.Jacquet de la Guerre - Sonata I in re per violino e BC
Barbara Strozzi - Sul Rodano Severo
E.Jacquet de la Guerre - Preludio, dalla suite in la per clavicembalo
Antonia Bembo - Passan veloci l'hore
Antonia Bembo - Anima perfidaE.Jacquet de la Guerre - Sonata prima per due violini e violoncello obbligatoE.Jacquet de la Guerre - Sinfonia da 'Samson'
Antonia Bembo - M'ingannasti in verità
Barbara Strozzi - La vendetta
Barbara Strozzi - Sino alla Morte
Barbara Strozzi - Costume de' grandi


Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Bizzarrie Armoniche
dir. Elena Russo

Tres Culturas

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Spain had two Golden Ages: in the 1500s, during the Age of Exploration, it colonized the Americas and was so powerful that it challenged England with an armada; but there was an earlier one, during the Medieval period when Spain was conquered by tolerant Arabs and became a cosmopolitan world center where Muslim, Christian, and Jew mingled and prospered. This album features musical examples of the three cultures.

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1 • KI ESHMERÁ SHABAT Canción de Shabat de Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1167) 3’54”
2 • YA VIENE EL CATIVO Canción sefardí del Mediterraneo oriental 4’43”
3 • NON ME MORDAS YA HABIBI Jarcha de la moaxaja nº 8 de Jehuda Halevi (1070-1141) 4’07”
4 • NANI, NANI Canción de cuna sefardí oriental 5’37”
5 • IODUJÁ RAIONAI Canción del Shabat de Israel Najara (Safed, siglo XVI) 4’40”
6 • AMOURS ME FAIT COMENCIER 1’51”
7 • FIESTA DE LA CIRCUNCISIÓN 1’40”
8 • EN QUANTAS GUISAS OS SEUS ACORRER 1’25”
9 • U ALGUEN A JHESU CRISTO POR SEUS PECADOS NEGAR 1’46”
10 • A QUE POR NOS SALVAR 2’00”
11 • GRAN CONFIANÇA NA MADRE DE DEUS 1’58”
12 • POIS AOS SEUS QUE AMA DEFENDE TODAVIA 2’11”
13 • DUM PATER FAMILIAS 2’28”
14 • COGAUDEANT CATHOLICI 2’00”
15 • PHELIPE 1’30”
16 • MUWWAL ISBIHÁN “No todo el que pide felicidad la encuentra” 2’57”
17 • SANÁ Q’AIM WA NISF TAB S-SIKA 7’17”
18 • INSHÁD ISBIHÁN “Al contemplar no vi a otro amado” Al-Shushtarí (1212-1269) 3’45”

(1-5)
SEFARAD • Dirección EDUARDO PANIAGUA

JORGE ROZEMBLUM Canto solista, coro, citolón y pandero
AURORA MORENO Canto solista, coro y tar
LUIS DELGADO Laúd, zanfona, santur, darbuga, tar y coro
EDUARDO PANIAGUA Qanun, flautas (fahl, alto, salamilla), y coro

(6-15)
LUIS DELGAD: Laúd, dutar, cítola, zanfona, tromba marina, viola de teclas, darbuga, bendir, pandero, tar, qaraquebs y campanillas
EDUARDO PANIAGUA: Salterio, qanun, flautas soprano, tenor y pastoril, nay, tromba marina, darbuga, tabila, pandero, tar, sistro de arena, campana y voces

(16-18)
EL ARABÍ SERGHINI: Canto
OMAR METIOUI: Laúd árabe
AHMED AL-GAZI: Viola alto

G.B.Bassani - La Tromba della Divina Misericordia

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Sonata for 2 violins & cello No. 8, Op. 5
Tocatta for organ
La Tromba della Divina Misericordia, oratorio


Anna Bessi, mezzosoprano,
Elena Carzaniga, contralto,
Paolo Borgonovo, tenore,
Gianluca Buratto, basso

Ensemble StilModerno
Ensemble vocale Magnificat

Le Chansonnier Cordiforme

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Le Chansonnier Cordiforme is a ravishingly beautiful illuminated manuscript, shaped like a double heart, and assembled in the early 1470s, about the time of the death of Dufay, a generation after the deaths of Dunstable and Binchois, and just as men such as Ockeghem were becoming famous. According to annotator David Fallows, “The Chansonnier contains the most compact and representative surviving collection of the classic European courtly song repertory in those years. Most of the songs that achieved the widest popularity at the time are here.” The book looks sublime; its original owner, though, was evidently a scoundrel. Jean de Montchenu was described at the time as “a great scoundrel, shameful of conduct, highly unchaste, destestable, dissolute, and full of vices.” He became a monk and then a bishop, but was finally excommunicated. The book came about, it is thought, when he was connected with the Duchy of Savoy (since 1860 a part of France).Most of the music collected on these three CDs is anonymous or of uncertain provenance, but there are songs by Dufay, Ockeghem, Bedyngham, and Busnoys. Perhaps illustrating the ambivalent political stance of the House of Savoy, the first disc is in Italian; the others are in French. Some of these songs are sweetly plaintive; others, such as Ockeghem’s L’Autre d’antan l’autrier passa, energetic. The Ockeghem tells the story of a man who repeatedly is enticed by the looks or embraces of women who desert him; the first has a “look forged in Milan,” which is evidently particularly devastating. (Avoid women whose looks seem to have been “forged.”) While there are now readily available discs devoted to Ockeghem and Dufay, including excellent ones on Naxos, there’s no other song collection that I know of like this one: It’s an anthology of medieval music before things started to change. It’s a rich collection, beautifully played and sung, highly recommended for anyone with an interest in early music. Reproductions of the manuscript have evidently been made with infinite care. The notes tell you where you may find them, but warn the gentle reader that you also cannot afford them.

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CD-1

Anon: Hora gridar 'oimè (2 voices, fiddle, bass lute)
Anon (ballata): Ben lo sa Dio (voice, fiddle, harp)
Dufay (rondeau): Dona gentile (voice, harp, flute)
Bedyngham: Zentil madonna (soprano, harp, lute)
Anon: Chiara fontana (2 voices)
Anon: O pelegrina luce (voice, 2 fiddles, harp)
Bedyngham: O rosa bella (voice, 2 fiddles, harp)
Anon: La gracia de voi (2 voices, flute)
Anon: Perla mia cara (3 voices)
Cornago: Morte mercè (3 voices)
Anon: Finir voglio la mia vita (voice, flute, bass lute, harp)
Anon: O pelegrina luce (2 voices, harp, bass lute)
Anon: O meschin' inamorati (2 voices, bass lute)

CD-2

Anon (rondeau): Comme ung homme desconforté (voice, harp, bass lute, flute)
Regis (rondeau): S'il vous plaist que vostre je soye (2 voices, bass lute)
Anon (ballade): L'aultre jour par ung matin (2 voices, lute, fiddle)
Anon (rondeau): J'ay pris amours (2 voices, bass lute)
Ockeghem (rondeau): L'autre d'antan l'autrier passa (2 voices, bass lute)
Hayne van Ghizeghem (rondeau): De tous bien plaine (voice, flute, lute, bass lute)
Busnoys (bergerette): J'ay moins de bien (voice, flute, lute, bass lute)
Dufay (rondeau): Vostre bruit et vostre grant (2 voices, flute)
Caron (rondeau): Cent mille escus (2 voices, harp, bass lute)
Morton (rondeau): Le souvenir de vous me tue (voice, harp, lute, bass lute)
Barbingant (rondeau): L'omme bany de sa plaisance (2 voices, harp, fiddle)
Morton (rondeau): N'aray je jamais mieulx (2 voices, harp, bass lute, fiddle)
Dufay (rondeau): Le serviteur hault guerdonné (2 voices, flute)
Vincenet (rondeau): Fortune, par ta cruaulté (2 voices, bass lute)
Busnoys (rondeau): Est il mercy de quoy l'on peust finer? (voice, harp, flute)


CD-3
Binchois (rondeau): Comme femme desconfortee (voice, 2 fiddles)
Frye (rondeau): Tout a par moy (voice, flute, lute, bass lute)
Ockeghem (bergerette): Ma bouche rit (2 voices, harp, fiddle)
Bedyngham (rondeau): Mon seul plaisir, ma doulce joye (voice, lute, fiddle)
Anon: Ma bouche plaint (2 voices, fiddle)
Anon (rondeau): Vray dieu d'amours (voice, 2 fiddles)
Anon: Hélas! je n'ay pas osé dire (3 voices, harp, lute, bass lute)
Anon (rondeau): Or ay je perdu (voice, lute, bass lute)
Anon (rondeau): Adieu vous dy (2 voices, flute)
Anon (bergerette): Terriblement suis fortunee (voice, 2 fiddles)
Anon (rondeau): De mon povoir vous veul complaire (2 voices, bass lute)
Anon (bergerette): Hélas! n'aray je jamais mieulx (2 voices, lute, bass lute, 2 fiddles)
Anon (bergerette): Quant du dire adieu (2 voices, bass lute, 2 fiddles)
Binchois (rondeau): Je ne veis onques la pareille (3 voices)
Anon (rondeau): Faites moy sçavoir de la belle (voice, 2 fiddles)

The Consort of Musicke
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Margaret Philpot (alto)
John York Skinner (countertenor)
John Elwes (tenor)
David Thomas (bass)

Lewis Jones (flute)
Frances Kelly (harp)
Christopher Page (lute)
Anthony Rooley (bass lute)
Trevor Jones (fiddle)
Alison Crum (fiddle)

G.B.Pescetti - Sonate per Gravicembalo

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Secondo gli studiosi, nell'ambito di tutta la produzione musicale di Giovanni Battista, l'opera clavicembalistica risulterebbe quella di maggior pregio, soprattutto dal punto di vista dell'innovazione stilistica. Oltre a sei Sonate per Clavicembalo conservate ancora manoscritte, sono arrivate fino ai giorni nostri le Sonate per Gravicembalo, pubblicate a Londra nel 1739, oggetto di questa registrazione.
Si tratta di composizioni che possono collocarsi in area di transizione tra stile barocco e stile galante, generalmente concepite in numero variabile di movimenti che, dal carattere contrastante, variano da due a quattro. Tra i tratti salienti che contraddistinguono felicemente la musica di Pescetti, possiamo sicuramente sottolineare la chiarezza espositiva, l'eleganza, l'essenzialità, l'ispirazione di breve gittata ma incisiva, oltre alla non comune spontaneità e fluidità di linguaggio.
Queste Sonate per Gravicembalo rappresentano, quindi, un fulgido esempio della Musica italiana del Settecento, sotto l'aspetto significativo dell'arte intesa come momento di comunicazione di suoni, di immagini, di sensazioni e sentimenti.
La musica di Pescetti richiede un tipo clavicembalo dal colore sonoro pieno e scuro, dalle note che abbiano una lunga tenuta ma anche un attacco definito e penetrante. Per questa incisione è stato utilizzato un ottimo strumento storico a due manuali, copia di Pascal Taskin (Parigi 1769), il cui originale è conservato presso la prestigiosa Russell Collection di Edimburgo.


Giovanni Battista Pescetti (1704–66) came from the same Venetian milieu as Legrenzi, Vivaldi, Platti, and Galuppi; the latter was in fact Pescetti’s classmate and collaborator in Venice. In 1737 Pescetti moved to London, where he took over the directorship of the King’s Theatre from Porpora (not Covent Garden, as stated in the liner notes). Thus, Pescetti was for a time a direct competitor to Handel, until the latter abandoned Italian opera in favor of oratorios. Naturally for any musician active in London at the time, Pescetti’s keyboard music owes a great deal to Handel, although there is nary a trace of the French element that permeates Handel’s music. The nine sonatas recorded here, all cast in a traditional three- or four-movement format, are thoroughly Italian in style, although there are indications that Pescetti was influenced by German keyboard music as well. Pescetti alternates between simple melody-with-bass, in the style of a Handelian allemande or gavotte, and more complex textures, as in the fugal opening of the A tempo giusto of Sonata 3, although he does not follow through with an unadulterated fugue à la Bach. Elsewhere, Pescetti is fond of introducing the opening theme(s) of a movement in imitative fashion, which lends a degree of interest to otherwise mediocre material. Much of the music is written in the grand style of Handel—the best example being the eight-minute Minuet of Sonata 1, which is a theme-and-variations in the spirit of Handel’s variations on “The Harmonious Blacksmith.”

FANFARE: Christopher Brodersen

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Sonata I
Sonata II
Sonata III
Sonata IV

Sonata V
Sonata VI
Sonata VII
Sonata VIII
Sonata IX

Filippo Emanuele Ravizza, harpsichord