Music for Mona Lisa

Music for Mona Lisa
Concordia - Mark Levy
Metronome 1023

Contents:

  1. Anon: Saltarello el francosin
  2. Coppini: Tanto è la donna mia
  3. Josquin: A l'heure que je vous p.x.
  4. Anon: Rompeltier
  5. Anon: Helas la fille Guillemin
  6. Tromboncino: Hor che'l ciel e la terra
  7. Japart: Amours amours amours
  8. Compère: La grant désir
  9. Busnois / Spinacino: Je ne fay plus
  10. Anon: Dit le burguygnon
  11. Bruhier: Latura tu
  12. Anon: Pavana el bisson
  13. Anon: Gagliarda la traditora
  14. Anon: Se mai per maraveglia
  15. Dalza: Pavana alla venetiana
  16. Dalza: Saltarello
  17. Dalza: Piva
  18. Tromboncino: Vergina bella
  19. Anon: Petits vriens
  20. Anon: Hor oires un chanzon
  21. Isaac: La morra
  22. Cara: Hor venduto la speranza

Performers: Robin Blaze (countertenor), Mark Levy (viol), Alison McGillivray (viol), Joanna Levine (viol), Emilia Benjamin (viol), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Jeremy West (cornet, bagpipes), Keith McGowan (shawm, recorder, bagpipes, flute), William Lyons (shawm), Paul Bevan (sackbut, slide trumpet, recorder), Raphael Mizraki (percussion)

Playing time: 72'

Recording date: April 1997 (Cambridge)

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This program makes use of a wide variety of sources in an attempt to make something of a survey of Leonardo's sonic landscape. Track #9 is a particularly interesting example, in which the lute virtuoso Spinacino added an extra line to Busnois' chanson.

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Todd M. McComb