Laudi italiane del quattrocento

O Yesu Dolce
Laudi italiane del quattrocento
Micrologus
Opus 111 30-169

Contents:

  1. Ognon m'entenda divotamente (2 voices)
  2. O Yesù dolce (3 winds)
  3. O dolce amor Iesù (2 voices)
  4. Anima benedeta (voice, vielle)
  5. Cum desiderio io vo cerchando (3 winds)
  6. O vergineta bella (2 voices)
  7. Cum desiderio e vo cercando (voice, vielle)
  8. Memento mei (3 voices)
  9. Perla mya cara (3 winds)
  10. Cum desiderio vo cerchando (6 voices, lute, 2 viols; 3 winds)
  11. Piançeti, cristiani (voice, psaltery, lute)
  12. Umil Madonna (harp, lute, viol; 3 winds)
  13. Salve, Regina (6 voices)
  14. Madre che festi (voice, psaltery, lute)
  15. O diva stella (3 winds)
  16. Canti zoiosi e dolce melodia (6 voices, lute, 2 viols; 3 winds)

Performers: Patrizia Bovi (voice, harp), Francesca Breschi (voice), Alessandro Pascoli (voice), Ulrich Pfeifer (voice), Alessandro Quarta (voice), Domenico Venturini (voice), Adolfo Broegg (lute, psaltery), Koram Jablonko (viol), Gabriele Russo (viol, vielle, lute), Goffredo Degli Esposti (shawms), Luigi Germini (slide trumpet, sackbut), Stefano Vezzani (shawm, bombard)

Playing time: 53'

Recording date: February 1996 (Assisi)

Reissued in Opus 111 2004.

Two related programs, featuring lauds and similar genres:

Cantico della Terra
Le sacré et le populaire dans l'Italie du XIIIe siècle
Quartetto Vocale Giovanna Marini / Micrologus
Opus 111 30-277
Tracce della tradizione orale in manoscritti italiani del XIV, XV sec.
Patrizia Bovi, Gilberte Casabianca
Opus 111 30-333

A recording featuring some later Italian "light" genres:

Napolitane - Villanelle del '500
Micrologus / Capella de' Turchini
Opus 111 30-214

An earlier laud recording by the present ensemble:

Laude Celestiniane
Ensemble Micrologus / Hora Decima
Fonit Cetra 2041

And a more mysterious citation:

Europa Concordia
Ensemble Micrologus
Stradivarius 33458

Finally, a recording of courtly music in Italy during this era:

Napoli Aragonese
Musica profana per la corte aragonese napoletana: secolo XV
Micrologus
Opus 111 30-215

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Todd M. McComb