Willaert Complete Works, I

Willaert: Complete Works Vol. 1

Le Villanesche
Collegio Vocale / Strumentale Euterpe - Antonio Eros Negri
Stradivarius 33311

Contents:

1. Le vecchie per invidia sono pazze (4 voices, spinet, lute, guitar, percussion)
2. Madonn'io non lo so (4 voices, spinet, lute)
3. Un giorno mi pregò una vedovella (4 voices, spinet, lute)
4. O bene mio (4 voices, spinet, lute, percussion)
5. Ricercare I (harpsichord)
6. Cingari simo (4 voices, spinet, lute, percussion)
7. Se pur ti guardo (4 voices, spinet, lute, percussion)
8. Occhio non fu giamai (4 voices)
9. Zoia zentil (La canzon di Ruzante) (4 voices, spinet, lute, percussion)
10. Recercare a tre voci (harpsichord)
11. Sempre mi ride sta donna (4 voices, spinet, lute, percussion)
12. Quando di rose d'oro (4 voices, percussion)
13. A quand'a quand'havea (5 voices, lute, percussion)
14. O dolce vita mia (4 voices, spinet, lute)
15. Ricercare X (harpsichord)
16. Madonna mia famme bon'offerta (4 voices, spinet, lute, percussion)
17. Sospiri miei (4 voices, lute)
18. E se per gelosia (2 voices, lute)
19. Vecchie letrose (4 voices, spinet, lute, guitar, percussion)

Performers: Elisa Franzetti, Annamaria Calciolari, Simonetta Bruzzone, Emanuele Bianchi, Marco Bordini, Marco Radaelli, Marina Toffetti, Milena Frigè, Nicola Moneta, Franco Pavan, Ivan Pelà, Marco Fodella, Donatella Galletti

Playing time: 70'

Recording date: January 1993

Like most of the composers of the era, especially in Italy, most of Willaert's output was in various secular song forms. Villanesche are "peasant songs," and so these works represent Willaert at his most jovial. This disc also contains three Ricercares, an instrumental genre where Willaert's early influence is supreme.

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