Viadana canzonette

Viadana: Canzonette a tre voci
Cappella Palatina - Giovanni Battista Columbro
Stradivarius Dulcimer 33387

Contents:

  1. O quante volte, o quante (3 voices, 2 flutes, dulcian, spinet, drum)
  2. Bella sai perché t'amo (3 voices, 2 violins, cello, spinet)
  3. Occhi ridenti e vaghi (3 voices, lute, theorbo, viol)
  4. È sì grand'il diletto (3 voices, 3 recorders, lute, theorbo)
  5. Su, su, che'l giorn'è fore (3 voices, 2 violins, cello, spinet)
  6. Solo soletto un giorno (3 voices, 2 violins, cello, spinet)
  7. Che fai Tirsi, che pensi (3 voices, 2 violins, cello, spinet)
  8. Poi ch'hai del mio morir (3 voices, lute, theorbo)
  9. Vezzosa pastorella (3 voices, viol, 2 flutes, guitar)
  10. Questa crudele (3 voices, 2 violins, cello, spinet)
  11. Io mi vivea com'aquila mirando (3 voices, flute, 2 viols, guitar)
  12. Ben mio, perché mi dai (3 voices, viol, spinet)
  13. Veggio in ciel una stella (3 voices, flute, 2 viols, guitar, lute)
  14. Ad un'ombra d'allori (3 voices, lute, spinet)
  15. Empia che far pensasti (3 voices, 3 viols, spinet)
  16. Ahimé! misero io canto (3 voices, lute, theorbo, viol, 2 violins)
  17. Amanti o voi (3 voices, lute, theorbo, drum)
  18. Amara dipartita che le donne seguite (3 voices, 2 violins, cello, lute)
  19. Fuggon le stelle (3 voices, 2 recorders, dulcian, spinet)

Performers: Alida Oliva (soprano, recorder), Patrizia Angileri (mezzosoprano), Andrea Fusari (countertenor), Michel van Goethem (countertenor), Matteo Zenatti (tenor), Vincenzo Di Donato (tenor), Andrea Favori (bass), Luca Ferracin (bass), Fabio Cafaro (violin), Vania Pedronetto (violin), Gianlorenzo Sarno (cello), Guido Balestracci (viol), Maurizio Salmoiraghi (viol), Eduardo Gorr (viol), Roberto Lambo (viol), Vincenzo Grottoli (recorder), Reinaldo Valldeperas (recorder, drum), Aberto Santi (dulcian), Giovanni Battista Columbra (flute), Silvia Moroni (flute), Francesca Torelli (lute), Terrell Stone (guitar, theorbo)

Playing time: 79'

Recording date: October 1994

Lodovico da Viadana (c.1560-1627) was generally considered a marginal figure at the time, although he did hold appointments in Mantua and elsewhere. Unusually for the era, he was a formal cleric. The canzonette was a light genre developing out of the villanella and which is seen increasingly as an integral part of the development of the new monody which was so important to the early baroque. The present volume, composed in 1594, is Viadana's most significant in the genre.

Other recordings devoted to Viadana:

Viadana: Concerti Ecclesiastici / Rusca: Sacri Concerti
Coro e Orchestra della Società cameristica di Lugano - Edwin Loehrer
Nuova Era 1191
Viadana: Missa Solemnis pro Defunctis
Vox Hesperia - Romano Vettori
Stradivarius 33430
Viadana: Sinfonie musicali a otto voci, Op. 18
Accademia Strumentale Italiana - Alberto Rasi
Stradivarius 33431
Viadana: Responsoria et lamentationes
Collegium Vocale Nova Ars Cabtabdi - Giovani Acciai
Stradivarius 33444 (2 CDs)
Viadana: Vespri di San Luca
Vox Hesperia / Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna - Romano Vettori
Fone 94F9
Viadana: Vespro Concertato
Capella Breda - Manneke
Erasmus 169

A recording of closely related music:

Orologio: Primo Libro delle Canzonette / Intrade a cinque voci
Il Terzo Suono / Ensemble 1492 / Dià Pasòn - Gian Paolo Fagotto
Arts 47531

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Todd M. McComb