Paolo da Firenze: Madrigals
- Narcisso Speculando
- Madrigaux de Paolo da Firenze
Mala Punica - Pedro Memelsdorff
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901732 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "Gold" HMG 501732 [CD]
Contents:
- Fra duri scogli (madrigal; 3 voices, trumpet)
- Un pellegrin uccel (madrigal; 3 voices, vielle, harp, chitarrino,
recorder)
- Amor, deh dimmi (ballata; 4 voices, 2 vielles, chitarrino,
recorder)
- Lena virtù (ballata; 3 voices, vielle, chitarrino)
- Isabella (istampita; 2 vielles, chitarrino, trumpet, recorder)
- Non più infelice (madrigal; 2 voices, vielle)
- Era Venus (madrigal; 3 voices, 2 vielles, harp, chitarrino,
bells, recorder)
- Cosa non è (istampita; 2 vielles, chitarrino, trumpet,
recorder)
- Godi Firenze (madrigal; 4 voices, 2 vielles, chitarrino,
trumpet)
- Girando un bel falcon (madrigal; 3 voices)
- Un c'osa (istampita; organ, chitarrino, bells, recorder)
Performers: Tina Aagaard (soprano, organ), Elisa Franzetti
(soprano), Alessandro Carmignani (countertenor), Gianluca Ferrarini
(tenor), Amandine Beyer (vielle), Jane Achtman (vielle), Françoise
Augustin (harp), Mara Galassi (harp), Karl-Ernst Schröder
(chitarrino), Felix Stricker (slide trumpet), Alberto Macchini
(bells), Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder)
Playing time: 56'
Recording date: September 1999 (Bologna)
[2], [9] Harmonia Mundi "Century"
HMX 290 8168 [CD] Une révolution de l'esprit et de la
musique (XIVe siècle) / An intellectual revolution in music
- Le siècle de l'Ars nova / Ars Nova, A Revolution in the
Late Middle Ages
Don Paolo di Marco (c.1355-1436/7) was a Florentine abbot of
some renown. Besides thirteen madrigals, he also left 40-50 ballate
and two sacred works. He is also known for a text on music theory.
The present program emphasizes the madrigals, especially for their
allegorical qualities and links to other music of the time. The
motivic approach of Paolo's music is also viewed as forward-thinking,
leading to analogies between this music and the Renaissance madrigal,
with which it shares no tangible historical connection.
Other recordings featuring Don Paolo:
- Paolo da Firenze: Amor, tu solo'l sai
- Ballate e Madrigali
Club Mediéval - Thomas Baeté
Musica Ficta 8017
- Stylems - Italian Music from the Trecento
- Egidius da Francia, Bartolino da Padova, Don Paolo da Firenze
Ensemble Syntagma - Alexandre Danilevski
Challenge Classics 72195
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Todd M. McComb