Performers: Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano, rebec), Nadia Ragni (soprano), Marie-Laure Trystam (soprano), Miti Amari (soprano), Donatella Triolo (soprano), Claire-Lise Stehlé (soprano), Gloria Moretti (soprano), Picci Ferrari (mezzo-soprano), Fiorella Pratelli (mezzo-soprano), Luisa Migliorino (mezzo-soprano), Elisabetta Dalla Valle (mezzo-soprano), Letizia Verzellesi (contralto), Francesca Giarini (contralto), Fortunata Prinzivalli (contralto), Claudio Cavina (countertenor), Marco Beasley (tenor), Pietro Valguanera (tenor), Maurizio Maiorana (tenor), Fulvio Bettini (tenor), Ariel Azcue (bass, krumhorn), Maurizio Casciola (bass), Alberto Scaltriti (bass), Salvo Pappalardo (bass), Willem de Waal (bass), Daniel Ficola (bass), Paolo Fanciullacci (cornet), Robert Ischer (cornet), Patrick Lehmann (cornet, krumhorn), Claudio Mandonico (cornet), Luca Bonvini (sackbut), Sophie de Dixmude (sackbut), Frank Böttger (sackbut), Sergio Negretti (sackbut), Gabriel Garrido (recorder), Giovanni Antonini (recorder), Roberto Festa (recorder, zufolo, krumhorn), Daniele Ficola (recorder), Christine Nusslé (recorder, krumhorn), Marcos Volonterio (recorder), Dario Lo Cicero (flute), Nicole Journot (flute, krumhorn), Jörg Fiedler (flute), Alain Sobczak (krumhorn, dulcian), Marco Ferrari (bombarde), Dante Bernardi (bombarde), Pier Gabriele Callegari (bombarde), Renée Stock (viol), Caroline Howald (viol), Frederike Daüblin (viol), Remo Guerrini (viol), Humberto Orellana (viol), Ricardo Massun (viol), Paolo Rigano (lute), Silvio Natoli (lute), Sebastiano Scollo (lute), Roberto Cascio (lute), Perla Manfrè (harp), Maria Rosaria Falcone (harpsichord), Basilio Timpanaro (harpsichord, organ)
Playing time: 47'
Recording dates: August 1987 & November 1988; CD issued: 1993
This program is a conjectural reconstruction of a service for the wedding of Cosimo de Medici in Florence, 1539. Composers represented include Francesco Corteccia (1502-1571), Matteo Rampollini (1497-1553) and Costanzo Festa.
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Todd M. McComb