EROS & SUBTILITAS
Capricci, Madrigali e Danze in Dialogo

Alia Vox Diversa

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ALIA VOX DIVERSA
AVSA9952
Total time: 65:32

EROS & SUBTILITAS

Early Renaissance music by Vincenzo Ruffo, Philippe Verdelot,
Jacques Arcadelt, Clement Janequin, Jhan Gero, Domenico Ferrabosco,
and anonymous pieces from the Manuscript of Castell’Arquato.

1. La Gamba 3:32
V. Ruffo

2. Dormendo un giorno 2:33
Ph. Verdelot

3-4. Dormendo un giorno 5:10
V. Ruffo, Ph. Verdelot

5. Pavana in Sol 2:31
MS Castell’Arquato

6. Saltarello in Sol 2:41
MS Castell’Arquato

7. Quand’io penso al martire 2:07
V. Ruffo, J. Arcadelt

8. Madonna io v’amo 2:57
J. Gero

9. Ricercare in La 2:54
MS Castell’Arquato

10. Lieti felici spirti 3:32
V. Ruffo

11-12. Pavana & Saltarello in Re 3:17
MS Castell’Arquato

13. Gentil mia donna 2:57
V. Ruffo

14. Ricercare in Sol 1:49
MS Castell’Arquato

15. Io mi sono gioveneta 2:51
D. Ferrabosco, MS Castell’Arquato

16-17. O felici occhi miei 6:07
J. Arcadelt, V. Ruffo

18. La Disperata 1:28
V. Ruffo

19. Martin menoit 2:02
V. Ruffo, C. Janequin

20-21. Pavana & Saltarello in Ut 3:44
MS Castell’Arquato

22. El Cromato 1:38
V. Ruffo

23. Da bei rami scendea 4:10
V. Ruffo, J. Arcadelt

 

TASTO SOLO
Anne-Kathryn Olsen, soprano · Riccardo Pisani, baritone
Bertrand Cuiller, Renaissance harpsichord · Bérengère Sardin, Renaissance harp
Pau Marcos, viola bastarda · Bor Zuljan, Renaissance lute
Guillermo Pérez, organetto & direction

Recorded at the Château de Bournazel (France), November 2021.
CD production: Tasto Solo. Coproduction: Alia-Vox, Sonjade S.L.
Sound engineer, recording director and editing: Jean-Daniel Noir.
English, Spanish & French commentary inside.

 

 

EROS & SUBTILITAS

Thinking how much music flourishes in our
times, not only that which consists of vocal
harmony, but that of instruments…

Diego Ortiz, 1553

The human voice is consistently praised in the treatises of the Renaissance as the “superior” and “worthy” model that musical instruments should strive to imitate; yet this is perhaps the result of a consensus that was more academic than practical. Indeed, the current revival of historical music has shown that the reconstruction of original instruments and the rediscovery of their playing techniques is a major path to understanding ancient repertoire, whether it is played or sung. Instruments and voices are, in short, part of an ongoing dialogue of a past universe, from which today only the traces of certain stars and firmaments can be seen.

The music of 16th century Europe formed one of the richest constellations, where there was a frenetic arrival of novel works and methods devoted exclusively to the development of the language and practice of instruments in parallel with the vocal arts. Italy was particularly fertile ground, cradling the development of the virtuoso praxis of glosa or diminuzione; the compositional exploration based on fantasia called ricercare; and the diffusion of an endless number of compositions derived from the world of dance. It was also in Italy that we find the first documented use of the term capriccio to name an instrumental composition, giving way to the Capricci in Musica a Tre Voci by Vincenzo Ruffo.

+ information in the CD booklet

GUILLERMO PÉREZ

Critics

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