Madrigals on viols
- Io canterei d'amor
- Chansons e Madrigali da sonare
Labyrinto Concerto di viole - Paolo Pandolfo
Harmonia Mundi "Documenta" HMC 90 5234 [CD]
Contents:
- Rore: Io canterei d'amor (madrigal
a 4, 1550)
- Arcadelt: O felici occhi miei
(madrigal a 4, 1539)
- Ortiz: O felici... (glosa, 1553)
- Ruffo: O felici... (capriccio a 3,
1564)
- Rore: Signor mio caro (madrigal a 4, 1550)
- Rore: Non è ch'il duol mi scemi (madrigal a 4, 1550)
- Bassano: Non è... (madrigal per
sonar, 1591)
- Rore: Non gemme, non fin'oro (madrigal a 4, 1550)
- Janequin: Martin menoit (chanson,
1536)
- Ruffo: Martin... (capriccio a 3, 1564)
- Andrea Gabrieli: Martin... (a 4, 1605)
- Gabrieli: Anchor che col patire (after Rore, 1596)
- Richardo Rognono (d.c.1620): Anchor... (diminuire, 1592)
- Lassus: Susanne un jour (chanson a 4,
1560)
- Gabrieli: Susanne... (1605)
- Rore: Vergine bella (madrigal a 5, 1548)
- Orazio Bassani (c.1550-1609): Vergine bella (c.1620)
- Crecquillon: Ung gay bergier (chanson a 4, 1543)
- Gabrieli: Ung gay... (1605)
- Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno (madrigal a 4, 1539)
Performers: Paolo Pandolfo (soprano viol), Juan Manuel Quintana
(alto viol), Guido Balestracci (tenor viol, viola bastarda), Gaetano
Nasillo (bass viol), Remo Guerrini (violone)
Playing time: 59'
Recording date: January 1995;
Rel.: 1997
Excerpts:
[16], [17] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8016 /
20 [CDx5] Musique de la Renaissance Music - L'Europe Musicale
au XVe et XVIe siècles
[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.
This program consists of madrigals & chansons performed by
a viol consort, as well as instrumental arrangements dating from
the 16th century. A large part of the idea is to illustrate the
art of diminution.
Other recordings featuring the present ensemble:
- The Spirit of Gambo
- Music by Tobias Hume
Emma Kirkby / Labyrinto - Paolo Pandolfo
Glossa 920402
- Schmelzer: Sonata a 2, 3, 5, 6
- da Sacro-Profanus Concentus Musicus e Duodena Selectarum
Sonatarum
Ensemble Aurora - Enrico Gatti / Ensemble di viole Labyrinto -
Paolo Pandolfo
Symphonia 91S07
And a solo recital by Paolo Pandolfo:
- A Solo
- Paolo Pandolfo
Glossa "Nouvelle Visions"
920403
An Italian viol consort program directed by one of the present
performers:
- Consonanze Stravaganti
- Venetian & Neapolitan Music for Consort of Viols
l'Amoroso - Guido Balestracci
Symphonia 98161
Recordings of similar conception:
- Word Play
- Virtuosic instrumental settings of madrigals and chansons from
16th century Italy
Musica Antiqua - Philip Thorby
Signum 031
- Monteverdi: Third Book of Madrigals for viol consort
- Sex Chordæ Consort of Viols
Centaur 2482
A program of related conception, this time by a recorder group:
- Ancor che col partire
- Diminutionen des 16. Jahrhunderts
Flautando Köln
Ars Musici 1286
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Todd M. McComb