The Diamond of Ferrara
- The Diamond of Ferrara
- Music from the Court of Ercole I
Ex Umbris
Dorian 93225
Contents:
- Dalza: Piva alla ferrarese (2 lutes, rebec, recorder)
- Piacenza: Leoncello (dulcimer, harp, 2 lutes)
- Piacenza: La fille Guillemin (dulcimer, lute, rebec)
- Ex Umbris: Scaramella (voices)
- Compère: Scaramella (4 voices)
- Antonio Stringari (fl.1500): Poi ch'io son in libertate (voice,
lute, guitar, harp, viol)
- Josquin: Scaramella (4 voices, lute, guitar, rebec, recorder)
- Antonio Cornazzano (c.1430-1484) / Karen Hansen: Cançon
de' piffari dicto el ferrarese (2 shawms, sackbut, percussion)
- Cornazzano: Il Re di Spagna (lute, vielle)
- Guglielmo Ebreo (c.1425-1480): Amoroso (hurdy-gurdy, lute,
flute, rebec)
- Ebreo: Rôti bouilli joieux (rebec, lute)
- Ebreo: Petit riens (bagpipe, rebec, guitar, percussion)
- Anon: Tentalora (2 lutes, harp, lira)
- Capirola: Tentalora (2 lutes, harp, lira)
- Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441-1494; text) / Ex Umbris: Orlando
Innamorato "The Meeting of Rugiero and Bradamante" (voice,
lute, harp, lira)
- Martini: L'Alfonsina (4 recorders)
- Josquin: In pace in idipsum (4 recorders)
- Caron: Hellas que pourra devenir (4 recorders)
- Anon: Fortuna desperata a 3 (voice, rebec, lute, harp)
- Anon: Fortuna desperata a 4 (voice, rebec, lute, harp)
- Josquin: Fortuna desperata a 3 (lute, rebec, harp)
- Martini: Fortuna desperata a 4 (2 lutes, harp, rebec)
- Isaac: Fortuna desperata a 3 (lute, harp, recorder)
- Isaac: Fortuna desperata / Litany of Saints (voices, cornet,
2 sackbuts)
- Dalza: Piva alla venetiana (bagpipe, guitar)
- Dalza: Pavana alla ferrarese (2 lutes, rebec, recorder)
- Dalza: Saltarello alla ferrarese (2 lutes, rebec, recorder)
- Dalza: Piva alla ferrarse (2 lutes, rebec, recorder)
- Giorgio Luppato ? (c.1502): O triumphale diamante (4 voices,
cornet, shawm, 2 sackbuts)
Performers: Grant Herreid (tenor, lutes, guitar, tenor recorder,
cornet, shawm), Paul Shipper (bass, lutes, guitar, flute, recorders,
shawm, percussion), Tom Zajac (sackbut, recorders, bagpipes, treble
shawm, harp, hurdy-gurdy, hammered dulcimer), Karen Hansen (rebec,
vielle, harp, recorder, sackbut, lira da braccio, viol), Lawrence
Lipnik (countertenor), John Olund (tenor), Scott Gray-Vickery
(tenor)
Playing time: 72'
Recording date: December 1994 (New York)
Whether this recording was previously released on another label
is unknown.
An earlier recording by the present ensemble:
- Chacona
- Renaissance Spain in the Age of Empire
Ex Umbris
Dorian 93207
And another recording with a similar theme:
- Canti e danze alla Corte Estense nel XV secolo
- La Rossignol - Domenico Baronio
Tactus 400003
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Todd M. McComb