Composer: Jacopo da Bologna, Phillipot de Caserta, Don Paolo da Firenze, Francesco Landini, Guillaume de Machaut, Bartolino da Padova, Matteo da Perugia, Niccolò da Perugia, Magister Piero, Solage, Antonio ‘Zacara’ da Teramo, Philippe de Vitry
Performer: La Fonte Musica, Michele Pasotti, Efix Puleo, Teodoro Baù, Marco Domenichetti, Federica Bianchi, Marta Graziolino
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA286
Release: 2017
Size: 588 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Firenze: Sì dolce non sonò chol lir’ Orfeo
02. Firenze: Non più infelice
03. Bologna: Fenice fu’
04. anon.: Tre Fontane
05. Vitry: In nova fert / Garrit gallus / Neuma
06. Machaut: Phyton, le mervilleus serpent, B38
07. Solage: Calextone
08. Teramo: Le suy navrés / Gnaff’a le guagnele Antonio
09. Caserta: Par le grant senz d’Adriane
10. Piero: Sì com’al canto della bella yguana
11. Perugia N: Qual perseguita dal suo servo Danne
12. Padova: Strinçe la man
13. Bologna: Non al su’ amante più Diana piacque
14. Perugia M: Già da rete d’amor
15. Bologna: Sì chome al chanto della bella yguana
Myth, Sallust tells us, is the relation of ‘things that never happened, but always are’. Ever since the fourteenth century, music has drunk deep from the source of myths. When composers were not dealing with sacred history, with the great morality tales of Christ, they turned to myth as to a great art and a matchless repertory of exemplary stories.
Metamorfosi Trecento is a musical exploration of myths and of the polyphony of the late Middle Ages. The ancient myths, foremost among them Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and their medieval transpositions are extremely present in the repertory of the Ars Nova: Narcissus lost on a fatal voyage, the stories of Daphne’s dream, Philomela, the myth of Orpheus, Callisto…
The lutenist Michele Pasotti and the singers and instrumentalists (fiddle, recorder, clavicymbalum, Gothic harp etc.) of the ensemble he founded in 2005, La Fonte Musica, bring these wondrous tales back to life with a beauty and artistry we wished to share with you.