The Diamond of Ferrara

The Diamond of Ferrara
Music from the Court of Ercole I
Ex Umbris
Dorian 93225

Contents:

  1. Dalza: Piva alla ferrarese (2 lutes, rebec, recorder)
  2. Piacenza: Leoncello (dulcimer, harp, 2 lutes)
  3. Piacenza: La fille Guillemin (dulcimer, lute, rebec)
  4. Ex Umbris: Scaramella (voices)
  5. Compère: Scaramella (4 voices)
  6. Antonio Stringari (fl.1500): Poi ch'io son in libertate (voice, lute, guitar, harp, viol)
  7. Josquin: Scaramella (4 voices, lute, guitar, rebec, recorder)
  8. Antonio Cornazzano (c.1430-1484) / Karen Hansen: Cançon de' piffari dicto el ferrarese (2 shawms, sackbut, percussion)
  9. Cornazzano: Il Re di Spagna (lute, vielle)
  10. Guglielmo Ebreo (c.1425-1480): Amoroso (hurdy-gurdy, lute, flute, rebec)
  11. Ebreo: Rôti bouilli joieux (rebec, lute)
  12. Ebreo: Petit riens (bagpipe, rebec, guitar, percussion)
  13. Anon: Tentalora (2 lutes, harp, lira)
  14. Capirola: Tentalora (2 lutes, harp, lira)
  15. Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441-1494; text) / Ex Umbris: Orlando Innamorato "The Meeting of Rugiero and Bradamante" (voice, lute, harp, lira)
  16. Martini: L'Alfonsina (4 recorders)
  17. Josquin: In pace in idipsum (4 recorders)
  18. Caron: Hellas que pourra devenir (4 recorders)
  19. Anon: Fortuna desperata a 3 (voice, rebec, lute, harp)
  20. Anon: Fortuna desperata a 4 (voice, rebec, lute, harp)
  21. Josquin: Fortuna desperata a 3 (lute, rebec, harp)
  22. Martini: Fortuna desperata a 4 (2 lutes, harp, rebec)
  23. Isaac: Fortuna desperata a 3 (lute, harp, recorder)
  24. Isaac: Fortuna desperata / Litany of Saints (voices, cornet, 2 sackbuts)
  25. Dalza: Piva alla venetiana (bagpipe, guitar)
  26. Dalza: Pavana alla ferrarese (2 lutes, rebec, recorder)
  27. Dalza: Saltarello alla ferrarese (2 lutes, rebec, recorder)
  28. Dalza: Piva alla ferrarse (2 lutes, rebec, recorder)
  29. 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