Your Sunday repose with special early music delights. A lot of court music with a 13th-century Cantiga de Santa Maria, music from 1601 at the court of Savoy, a concert by Nicola Fiorenza and 17th-century Italian music at French court.
1. Cantigas de Santa Maria, Alfonso X el Sabio (1221-1284).
– Poder a Santa Maria (Cantiga 185).
– Instrumental improvisation.
Sinfonye led by Stevie Wishart.
(Almariva DS 0110, 1993)
2. Dialogue du François et du Savoysien (1601):
Alfonso Ferrabosco.
– Pavane.
Anthony Holborne.
– Gaillarde.
Luca Marenzio.
– Tirsi morir volea.
Nicolas de la Grotte.
– Je suis Amour le grand maître des Dieux.
Ensemble centered around Anne Quentin, soprano.
(Naïve E 8814, 2000)
3. Nicola Fiorenza (ca.1700-1764).
Concerto in re maggiore con due violini, violoncello obbligato e basso (1728).
– Largo.
– Allegro.
– Largo.
– Allegro.
Marco Testori, solo cello. Dolce & Tempesta led by Stefano Demicheli.
(Fuga Libera FUG 549, 2008)
4. Lodovico Viadana (ca.1560-1627).
– Canzon per cornetto e violino in risposta.
Luigi Rossi (ca.1597-1653).
– Passacaille pour le clavecin.
Giovanni Battista Bassani (ca.1657-1716).
"In caligine umbrosa", cantate pour voix seule et deux dessus.
– Recitativo ‘In caligine umbrosa’.
– Aria ‘Festinate, o penæ terrenæ’.
– Recitativo ‘Ah! non conturbate’.
– Aria ‘Alta gloria, cara vita!’
– Recitativo ‘Anhelo spe costante’.
– Aria ‘O auræ serenæ’.
– Recitativo ‘Ardendo suspiro’.
– Aria ‘Jam gratæ memoriæ’.
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor. Ensemble La Fenice led by Jean Tubéry, cornetto.
(Virgin Veritas 5 45656 2, 2004)
Image from Cantigas de Santa Maria
