Canciones y Ensaladas

Canciones y Ensaladas
Chansons et pièces instrumentales du Siècle d'Or
Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1627 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1627 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Valderrábano: Contrapunto sobre el tenor del conde claros (2 viheluas)
  2. Flecha: La Bomba (4 voices, 2 lutes, viol, organ)
  3. Vásquez: Ojos morenos (5 voices, 2 lutes)
  4. Vásquez: Que yo, mi madre, yo (5 voices, 2 lutes, viol, organ)
  5. Vásquez: Mi mal de causa es (5 voices, organ)
  6. Brudieu: En los mon pus sou dotada del set goigs (5 voices, 2 lutes, viol, organ)
  7. Mudarra: Fantasia del quarto tono (guitar)
  8. Vásquez: Gentil senora mia (5 voices, 2 lutes, viol, organ)
  9. Vásquez: Cavallero, queraysme dexar (5 voices, 2 lutes, viol)
  10. Mudarra: Fantasia del quinto tono (guitar)
  11. Vásquez: Agora que sé de amor (5 voices, viol, organ)
  12. Vásquez: El que sin ti bivir, ya no querrìa (5 voices, lute, viol, organ)
  13. Mudarra: Fantasia del primer tono (guitar)
  14. Vásquez: Lágrimas de mi consuelo (5 voices, 2 lutes, viol)
  15. Flecha: La Guerra (5 voices, 2 lutes, viol, organ)

Performers: Dominique Visse (countertenor), Bruno Boterf (tenor), Vincent Bouchot (baritone), François Fauché (baritone), Renaud Delaigue (bass), Éric Bellocq (lute, guitar), Massimo Moscardo (lute), Matthieu Lusson (viol), Jean-Marc Aymes (positive organ)

Playing time: 58'

Recording date: January 1997

Excerpts:
[1], [13] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8016.20 Musique de la Renaissance Music - L'Europe Musicale au XVe et XVIe siècles
[1], [13] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8172 [CD] La naissance d'un répertoire spécifiquement instrumental / The birth of a specifically instrumental repertory (1450-1659) - L'émergence de la musique instrumentale / The Rise of Instrumental Music.
[12] Harmonia mundi "Passerelles" HMB 590 017 / 18 [CDx2 + book] Les Contre-ténors - Mythes et Réalités (with a book by Peter Giles)

This program is devised to illustrate some of the contradictory tendencies contained in the outputs of the Spanish Golden Age.

Composers represented are Enrique de Valderrábano (1500-1557), Mateo Flecha (1481-1553), Juan Vásquez (c.1510-1560), Juan Brudieu (c.1520-1591), and Alonso Mudarra (c.1510-1580).

A recording devoted to Vásquez, whose songs are featured particularly prominently in the present release, and who was also known for sacred music:

Vásquez: Agenda Defunctorum
Capilla Peñaflorida - Josep Cabré
Almaviva 0122

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Todd M. McComb