Performers: Tessa Bonner (soprano), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Emily Van Evera (soprano), Nigel Rogers (tenor); Kate Eckersley, Twig Hall, Evelyn Tubb (sopranos); Mary Nichols, Caroline Trevor (altos); John Mark Ainsley, Simon Berridge, Joseph Cornwell, Rogers Covey-Crump, Philip Daggett, Charles Daniels, John Dudley, Paul Elliott, Philip Fryer, Andrew King, Rufus Müller, Leigh Nixon, Mark Padmore, Angus Smith (tenors); Jeremy Birchall, Stephen Charlesworth, Alan Ewing, Simon Grant, Donald Greig, John Milne, Bruce Russell, Richard Savage, Julian Walker, Richard Wistreich (basses); Rachel Bevan, Jill Crozet, Sally Dunkley, Carol Hall, Nicola Jenkin, Rachel Platt, Jane Seymour (sopranos); Terry Anderson, Catherine Woolf (altos); Philip Cartledge, Christopher Gunnes (tenors); Stephen Jackson, Philip Lawson, Simon Littlewood, Ken Roles, Francis Steele (basses); John Holloway (violin), Judy Tarling (viola), Pavlo Beznosiuk (lira da braccio), Nicholas Hayley (lira da braccio), Erin Headley (lirone), Wendy Gillespie (tenor viol), Mark Caudle (bass viol), Richard Boothby (bass viol), Julia Hodgson (bass viol), William Hunt (great bass viol), Alison Crum (great bass viol), Francis Baines (violone), Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Bruce Dickey (cornet), Michael Harrison (cornet), Charles Toet (trombone), Richard Cheetham (trombone), Trevor Herbert (trombone), Martin Pope (bass trombone), John Toll (organ, regal), Lucy Carolan (organ), Alan Wilson (organ), Andrew Lawrence-King (psaltery, harp), Imogen Barford (psaltery), Frances Kelly (harp), Nigel North (chitarrone), Jakob Lindberg (chitarrone, bass lute), Paula Chateauneuf (chitarrone), William Badley (tenor lute, cittern), Hugh Cherry (tenor lute), David Miller (tenor lute), Paul O'Dette (tenor lute), Christopher Wilson (tenor lute, guitar), Timothy Crawford (bass lute), Martin Eastwell (bass lute), Tom Finucane (bass lute, guitar), James Tyler (mandora), Robert Howes (tambourine), Michael Laird (trumpet), Michael Harrison (trumpet)
Playing time: 70'
Recording date: July 1986
This recording presents the musical sections of an extravagant wedding ceremony between Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine in 1589. These musical sections were intermezzi's for a showing of the comedy La Pellegrina by Girolamo Bargagli.
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Todd M. McComb