Lassus - La Cortesia

Lassus: La Cortesia
Ensemble de' Medici - Keller Coker
RCM 19502

Contents:

  1. La Cortesia voi donne (villanesca, 1555; soprano, 2 lutes, cittern)
  2. Occhi piangete (madrigal, 1555; recorder, 3 lutes)
  3. Audi dulcis amica mea (motet, 1555; 4 voices, violin, 3 viols)
  4. Per pianto mia came (madrigal, 1555; 2 lutes)
  5. O Lucia (moresca, 1560; lute, guitar)
  6. Expectatio iustorum (duo, 1609; 2 voices)
  7. Fantasia 25 (1609; 2 lutes)
  8. Trop endurer (chanson, 1555; soprano, 3 viols, lute)
  9. Fantasia 13 (1609; 2 lutes)
  10. Las voulez vous (chanson, 1555; countertenor, violin, 3 viols, lute)
  11. Fantasia 27 (1609; 2 recorders)
  12. Madonna mia pietà (villanesca, 1555; soprano, 3 lutes, cittern)
  13. Fantasia 4 (1609; 2 lutes)
  14. Oculus non vidit (duo, 1609; 2 voices)
  15. Vatene lieta homai (madrigal, 1555; soprano, violin, 3 viols, lute)

Performers: Kris Gould (soprano), Dana Marsh (countertenor), Jay Shephard (tenor), Robert Shacklett (baritone), James Tyler (lute, tenor viol, guitar, cittern), Dirk Freymuth (lute), Nina Treadwell (lute), Susan Feldman (violin), Robert Tueller (bass viol), Denise Briesé (bass viol), Niki Carras (recorder), Inga LaRose (recorder)

Playing time: 59'

Recording date: June 1995

This collection combines items from Lassus' first published collection (by Susato in Antwerp) of 1555 with instructional items taken from a popularly oriented collection published in 1609.

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Todd M. McComb