Venetian & Neapolitan Music for Consort of Viols
- Consonanze Stravaganti
- Venetian & Neapolitan Music for Consort of Viols
l'Amoroso - Guido Balestracci
Symphonia 98161
Contents:
- Antonio Valente: Tenore de Zefiro con duodeci mutanze (5 viols,
violone, guitar, harpsichord, percussion)
- Marco Antonio Ferro (d.1662): Sonata 10 a quattro viole (4
viols, violone, theorbo, organ)
- Gesualdo: Gagliarda del Principe di
Venosa (4 viols, guitar, percussion)
- Giovanni Salvatore (d.1613): Canzone Francese terza, del primo
Tuono Finto per sonarsi con il Concerto di viole (4 viols)
- Francesco M. Bassani: Tocata del Signor Oratio Bassani (bass
viol, violone, theorbo, organ)
- Giovanni Trabaci (c.1575-1647): Partite sopra Fedele (4 viols,
violone, theorbo, organ, percussion)
- Trabaci: Consonanze Stravaganti (4 viols, violone, organ)
- Vitali / Piccinini /
Storace: Ciaconna (bass viol, theorbo,
organ, percussion)
- Gregorio Strozzi (1615-1687): Gagliarda terza, e per concerto
di viole (4 viols, violone, theorbo, organ)
- Storace: Ballo della Battaglia (4 viols, violone, guitar,
harpsichord, percussion)
- Trabaci: Canzona Francesca per concerto di viole ad arco (3 viols,
violone, organ)
- Giovanni Buonamente (d.1642): Ballo del Gran Duca (3 viols,
theorbo, harpsichord)
- Trabaci: Durezze, et ligature (3 viols, violone, organ)
Performers: Guido Balestracci (treble & bass viols), Rodney
Prada (treble & bass viols, violone), Alba Fresno (tenor viol),
Jordi Comellas (bass viol), Roberto Lambo (bass viol), Gioacchino
de Padova (violone), Yasunori Imamura (theorbo, guitar), Massimiliano
Raschietti (organ, harpsichord), Alberto Macchini (percussion)
Playing time: 61'
Recording date: August 1998 (Bologna)
The present program combines music arranged from that for other
forces with that written explicitly for viol consort in Italy. It
argues forcefully for a prominent role for the latter repertory.
A next volume:
- Seconde Stravaganti
- Venetian & Neapolitan Music for Consort of Viols
l'Amoroso - Guido Balestracci
Symphonia 99170
And a similarly motivated program by another ensemble:
- La Tavola Cromatica
- Un'accademia musicale dal Cardinale Barberini
Evelyn Tubb / The Earle his Viols - Uri Smilanski
Raum Klang 2302
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