Italian Lauds

O Vergin Santa non m'abbandonare
Laudi Veneziane e Fiorentine del XV e XVI secolo
Ensemble Daedalus
Accent 9289

Contents:

  1. Serafino Razzi, Libro primo delle laudi spirituali, Venezia 1563: O Vergin Santa non m'abbandonare (9 voices)
  2. Feo Belcari (t) / Anon.(m), 15th c., South Africa Public Library, Cape Town, MS Capetown, Grey 3.b.120: Salve, regina de misericordia (3 voices, lute)
  3. Leonardo Giustiniani (t) / A. Gardano (m), Primo libro delle laudi, Roma 1588: Stava a pie de la croce (4 voices, 2 recorders, vielle, 2 viols, lute, percussion)
  4. Leonardo Giustiniani (t) / Anon.(m), 15th c., South Africa Public Library, Cape Town, MS Capetown, Grey 3.b.120: Piangi, dolente anima predata (4 voices, 2 vielles)
  5. Anon., 15th c., Bologna, Biblioteca Univ. MS 2216: Ave, preciosa gemma (2 recorders)
  6. Feo Belcari (t) / Innocentius Dammonis (m), Petrucci, Laude Libro Primo, Venezia, 1508: Salve, regina di misericordia (4 voices, 2 recorders, 2 vielles)
  7. Leonardo Giustiniani (t) / Anon. (m), 15th c., South Africa Public Library, Cape Town, MS Capetown, Grey 3.b.120: Non tardati, peccatori (4 voices, recorder, vielle, 2 viols, lute, percussion)
  8. Leonardo Giustiniani (t) / Anon. (m), 15th c., Bologna, Biblioteca Univ. MS 2216: Ave fuit prima salus (6 voices)
  9. Orlando di Lassus / A. Gardano, Primo libro delle laudi, Roma 1588: Poichè'l mio largo pianto (voice, recorder, vielle, 2 viols)
  10. Leonardo Giustiniani (t) / Anon. (m). 13th c. Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze. MS Panc. 27: O Jesu dolce (2 voices, recorder, 2 vielles)
  11. Anon., 15rh c., Venezia, Biblioteca Marciana MS IX 145: Sancta Maria, regina celorum (3 voices)
  12. Leonardo Giustiniani (t) / Bedyngham (m), New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Mellon Chançonnier: Gentil madonna, de non m'abandonare (voice, 2 vielles)
  13. Anon.(m), 15th c., South Africa Public Library, Cape Town, MS Capetown, Grey 3.b.120: Cum desiderio vo cerchando (2 recorders, 2 vielles, lute)
  14. Petrus Hedus, Paris. Bibl. Nat., f. It., 2104: O Vergene gentile (3 voices)
  15. Leonardo Giustiniani (t) / Filippo de Lurano (m), Petrucci, Laude Libro secondo, Venezia, 1508: Ne le tue braze, o Vergene Maria (4 voices, 2 recorders, vielle, 2 viols, lute)

Performers: Maria Cristina Kiehr (voice), Otto Rastbichler (voice), Gerd Türk (voice), Josep Cabré (voice, recorder), Roberto Festa (recorder, voice), Koko Taylor (recorder, percussion, voice), Hugh Sandilands (lute, voice), Renée Stock (vielle, viol, voice), Brigitte Gasser (viol), Emmanuel Bonnardot (vielle, voice)

Playing time: 65'

Recording date: September 1992

Excerpts:
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The Italian Laud started basically as a folk-sacred genre, and developed into a more artistic form in the 15th century. Still, these are not chansons or madrigals. Items without composers listed are anonymous.

Another survey of these later lauds:

Nuove Laudi Ariose
Della Beatissima Virgine, c.1600
Progetto Musica - Giulio Monaco
Tactus 600101
Nuove Laudi Ariose
Della Beatissima Virgine, c.1600
Progetto Musica - Giulio Monaco
Tactus 600102

And another look:

Laudes
Doulce Mémoire - Denis Raisin Dadre
Zig-Zag Territoires 90901

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