Ensemble Trictilla & Lucia Sciannimanico - Music for the House of a Gentleman (2015)
BAND/ARTIST: Ensemble Trictilla, Lucia Sciannimanico
- Title: Music for the House of a Gentleman
- Year Of Release: 2015
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless
- Total Time: 00:54:28
- Total Size: 267 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Il primo libro de balli: XVIII. Ballo francese
02. Il bianco e dolce cigno
03. Fusi pavana piana
04. Il primo libro de balli: XVI. Ballo Milanese
05. Il primo libro de balli: XV. Arboscello, ballo furlano
06. Il primo libro de balli: XIV. Ungarescha e saltarello
07. Il primo libro de balli: XII. Schiarazula marazula
08. Pasamezo di nome anticho
09. Romanesca di lyra
10. Recercare
11. Donna leggiadra et bella
12. Qui sequitur me non ambulat
13. La gamba in Basso e soprano
14. Divisions on Palestrina's vestiva i colli
15. Fantasia settima
16. Oculus non vidit
17. Recercar sopra il canto fermo di costanzo festa e per sonar all'arpa
18. Fantasia sexta
19. La pastorella si leva per tempo
20. Adieu mon amour
21. Recercada prima sobre "O felici occhi miei"
22. Canone
23. Divisions on Orlando di Lasso's Suzanne un jour
24. Pavana alla venetiana
The aim of this collection is to provide listeners with a broader understanding of how music was conceived during the Italian Renaissance, beyond the usual focus on vocal works, whether sacred or dramatic. Libraries have been ransacked to find unusual examples of solo repertoire for violin, lyra da braccio, keyboard, harp and lute, but also solo ricercars, 4-part dances, and arrangements of the vocal scores of madrigals. The wide range of pieces that make up the recording give an eloquent idea of the music that would have been played and heard in the home of an Italian gentleman.
Cosimo Bartoli, a Florentine gentleman and writer, explained that a gentleman should make use of music "as a recreation for the spirit, with the modesty and courtesy expected of noblemen and those of elevated birth, indeed I believe and am sure that this is not just admirable, but also expedient: I would even go so far as to call it necessary." And who would argue with him?
Towards the end of the 1500s, music for dancing also increased in popularity, though in contrast to what went on outdoors in the streets, the dances were performed with great elegance and refinement: composers adopted typical folk dances such as the Ungarescha or the Schiarazula Marazula reshaping them and investing them with the musical dignity befitting a patrician audience.
Thus presented here is a scholarly collected but skilfully performed combination of solemn ricercars, instrumental settings of yearning madrigals and more exuberant dances, often by names almost unknown now such as Ascanio Mayone and Francesco Taeggio, but well worth discovering alongside their more storied counterparts such as Lassus and Arcadelt. Several of the performers here have already made well-received recordings for Brilliant, such as violinist Valerio Losito and keyboard player Giulia Nuti.
01. Il primo libro de balli: XVIII. Ballo francese
02. Il bianco e dolce cigno
03. Fusi pavana piana
04. Il primo libro de balli: XVI. Ballo Milanese
05. Il primo libro de balli: XV. Arboscello, ballo furlano
06. Il primo libro de balli: XIV. Ungarescha e saltarello
07. Il primo libro de balli: XII. Schiarazula marazula
08. Pasamezo di nome anticho
09. Romanesca di lyra
10. Recercare
11. Donna leggiadra et bella
12. Qui sequitur me non ambulat
13. La gamba in Basso e soprano
14. Divisions on Palestrina's vestiva i colli
15. Fantasia settima
16. Oculus non vidit
17. Recercar sopra il canto fermo di costanzo festa e per sonar all'arpa
18. Fantasia sexta
19. La pastorella si leva per tempo
20. Adieu mon amour
21. Recercada prima sobre "O felici occhi miei"
22. Canone
23. Divisions on Orlando di Lasso's Suzanne un jour
24. Pavana alla venetiana
The aim of this collection is to provide listeners with a broader understanding of how music was conceived during the Italian Renaissance, beyond the usual focus on vocal works, whether sacred or dramatic. Libraries have been ransacked to find unusual examples of solo repertoire for violin, lyra da braccio, keyboard, harp and lute, but also solo ricercars, 4-part dances, and arrangements of the vocal scores of madrigals. The wide range of pieces that make up the recording give an eloquent idea of the music that would have been played and heard in the home of an Italian gentleman.
Cosimo Bartoli, a Florentine gentleman and writer, explained that a gentleman should make use of music "as a recreation for the spirit, with the modesty and courtesy expected of noblemen and those of elevated birth, indeed I believe and am sure that this is not just admirable, but also expedient: I would even go so far as to call it necessary." And who would argue with him?
Towards the end of the 1500s, music for dancing also increased in popularity, though in contrast to what went on outdoors in the streets, the dances were performed with great elegance and refinement: composers adopted typical folk dances such as the Ungarescha or the Schiarazula Marazula reshaping them and investing them with the musical dignity befitting a patrician audience.
Thus presented here is a scholarly collected but skilfully performed combination of solemn ricercars, instrumental settings of yearning madrigals and more exuberant dances, often by names almost unknown now such as Ascanio Mayone and Francesco Taeggio, but well worth discovering alongside their more storied counterparts such as Lassus and Arcadelt. Several of the performers here have already made well-received recordings for Brilliant, such as violinist Valerio Losito and keyboard player Giulia Nuti.
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