Florentine Festival

Trionfi!
A Florentine Festival
New London Consort - Philip Pickett
L'Oiseau Lyre 436 718

Contents:

  1. Pavana La Bataglia (2 cornets, 4 sackbuts, 4 shawms, organ, regal, percussion)
  2. Canto di Lanzi venturieri (4 voices, flute, shawm, sackbut, 2 guitars, percussion)
  3. Trionfo della dea Minerva (5 voices, fiddle, 3 viols, 4 recorders, lute, harp, spinet, organ)
  4. Pavana La Monina (4 recorders, 2 lutes, organ, tabor)
    Gagliarda La Manfrolina (4 recorders, 2 lutes, organ, tabor)
  5. Carro della morte (4 voices, 4 sackbuts, 4 viols, organ, tabor)
  6. Pavana La Morte de la Ragione (fiddle, 3 viols, spinet)
    Saltarello de la Ragione (fiddle, 3 viols, spinet)
  7. Alessandro Coppini (c.1465-1527): Canto di uccellatori alle starne (4 voices)
  8. Saltarello Zorzi (gemshorn lute)
    Saltarello Torza (4 crumhorns, tabor)
  9. Canto di pastori bacchiatori di bassette (4 voices, 4 crumhorns, cornet, sackbut, percussion)
  10. Pavana La Cornetta (2 cornets, 3 sackbuts, organ, tabor)
    Gagliarda La Traditora (2 cornets, 3 sackbuts, organ, tabor)
  11. Trionfo di diavoli (4 voices, shawm, 3 sackbuts, regal, tabor)
  12. Passo e mezzo (fiddle, 4 viols, 2 lutes, spinet)
    Saltarello Giorgio (2 cornets, 3 sackbuts, 3 recorders, fiddle, 4 viols, organ, spinet, 2 lutes, harp, tabor)
  13. Trionfo della compagnia del Broncone (4 voices, lira da braccio, 3 viols, lute, harp, 4 recorders, cornet, sackbut, organ, octavina)
  14. Canto di Lanzi sonatori di rubecchini
  15. Pavana Le Forze d'Hercole (2 lutes, harp, spinet)
    Gagliarda El tu tu (2 cornets, 3 sackbuts, 3 recorders, fiddle, 4 viols, organ, spinet, 2 lutes, harp, tabor)
  16. Trionfo delle quattro complessioni (Mars - 4 voices, cornet, 3 sackbuts, regal, tabors; Venus - 5 voices, 2 lutes, harp, quint-spinet; Flemma - 4 voices, 4 recorders, lute, organ; Saturn - 5 voices, fiddle, 4 viols)

Performers: Catherine Bott (soprano), Christopher Robson (countertenor), Andrew King (tenor), Paul Agnew (tenor), Michael George (baritone), Simon Grant (bass), Tessa Bonner (soprano), Olive Simpson (soprano), Teresa Shaw (mezzo-soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor), Robert Horn (tenor), Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Robert Evans (baritone), Mark Rowlinson (baritone), Lindsay Benson (baritone), Charles Pott (baritone), Stephen Charlesworth (bass), Adrian Peacock (bass), Alan Ewing (bass), Tom Finucane (lute, guitar), Paula Chateauneuf (lute, guitar), David Miller (lute), Frances Kelly (harp), Pavlo Beznosiuk (treble rebec, fiddle, lira da braccio), Giles Lewin (alto rebec, contrabass recorder, soprano shawm, bass crumhorn), Mark Levy (tenor rebec, bass viol), Susanna Pell (tenor viol), Catherine Finnis (tenor viol), Joanna Levine (bass viol), Peter McCarthy (contrabass viol), Pamela Thorby (recorders, gemshorn, alto crumhorn), William Lyons (recorders, soprano shawm, alto crumhorn), Elizabeth Stanbridge (recorders, flute), Catherine Latham (tenor recorder), Penny Pay (tenor recorder, alto shawm, tenor crumhorn), Keith McGowan (tenor recorder, sopranino shawm, crumhorns), Philip Pickett (bass crumhorn), Michael Laird (cornet), David Staff (cornet), Jeremy West (cornet), David Purser (alto sackbut), Paul Nieman (tenor sackbut), Kenneth Hamilton (tenor & bass sackbut), Stephen Saunders (bass sackbut), David Roblou (organ, regal, spinet), Richard Egarr (spinet, quint-spinet, octavina), Gary Cooper (organ), Stephen Henderson (timpani, tabors, side drum, tambourine)

Playing time: 73'

Recording date: May 1992

The trionfi were allegorical carnival songs, performed here with instrumental intermedi.

For unknown reasons, the orchestration of track #14 (a song about rebecs) is not given.

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Todd M. McComb