Italian Renaissance

O Dolce vita mia
Musiche vocali e strumentali del Rinascimento italiano
Roberta Invernizzi / Accademia Strumentale Italiana - Alberto Rasi
Stradivarius Dulcimer 33396

Contents

  1. Stefano Lando (c.1530-1571): Io vivea come aquila (madrigale; soprano, 2 viols, bombarda, lute, percussion)
  2. Anon: Canario (4 viols, bombarda, lute, percussion)
  3. Perissone Cambio (c.1520-1565): La morte di marito (villotta; soprano, 3 viols, bombarda, lute)
  4. Cipriano de Rore: Anchor che col partire (madrigale; soprano, 3 viols)
  5. Francesco da Milano: Ricercare e Fantasia (lute)
  6. Vincenzo Ruffo: Lieti, felici spirti (madrigale; soprano, 3 viols, lute, percussion)
  7. Antonio Scandello (1517-1580): Voria che tu cantasse una canzone (villanella; soprano, 3 viols, violone, bombarda, lute, percussion)
  8. Julius da Modena (sec. XVI): Ricercare a4 (4 viols)
  9. Peregrinus Cesena (sec. XVI): Non passo abbandonare (frottola; soprano, 3 viols, bombarda, lute)
  10. Anon: Pavana detta La Battaglia (4 viols, violone, bombarda, lute, percussion)
  11. Cambio: Non t'arricordi quando me dicevi (canzon villanesca; soprano, 3 viols, bombarda, lute)
  12. Francesco da Milano: La Spagna (recorder, 3 viols)
  13. Adrian Willaert: O dolce vita mia (villanesca; soprano, 3 viols, bombarda)
  14. Ruffo: A che cercar gli specchi (madrigale; 4 viols, violone)
  15. Anon: Pavana La Morte de la Ragione (4 viols, violone, bombarda, lute, percussion)
  16. Ruffo: Gentil mia donna (madrigale; soprano, 4 viols, violone, lute)
  17. Pietro Paolo Borrono (d.c.1564): Fantasia (lute)
  18. Filippo Azzaiolo (c.1530-1569): E me levai d'una bella mattina (villotta; soprano, 4 viols, violone, bombarda, lute, percussion)

Performers: Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Alberto Rasi (soprano & bass viols), Paolo Biordi (tenor viol), Cristiano Contadin (bass viol), Claudia Pasetto (bass viol), Michele Zeoli (violone), Paolo Faldi (recorder, bombarda), Beatrice Pornon (lute), Fabio Tricomi (percussion)

Playing time: 53'

Recording date: March 1995

This is a very nice program, illustrating many of the genres beyond the more famous "academic" madrigal of the period. In many ways, these roots are more significant to the later Italian Baroque than the presently more famous purely vocal madrigal. In fact, some items here are arrangements of original 4-voice madrigals.

A similar program:

Vecchie letrose
Italian Renaissance Music
Syntagma Musicum
Arts 47504

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Todd M. McComb