Performer: La Morra
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ramée
Catalogue: RAM1803
Release: 2018
Size: 1.05 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Mazzuoli P: Donna S’io O Errato
02. anon.: Douls m’est amer
03. anon.: Soiez Liez
04. Mazzuoli G: Dopo Ch’i So
05. Firenze P: Poc’ hanno di mirar
06. Mazzuoli G: A’ piè del monte
07. Mazzuoli P: Lasso Dolente
08. Teramo: Dicovi per Certanca
09. Bologna: Sotto l’imperio
10. Mazzuoli G: Splendor da Ciel
11. anon.: Le Souvenir de Vous Dame
12. Mazzuoli P: A Febo Damn’e
13. Salinis: Ihesu salvator / Quo vulneratus
14. Salinis: Si nichil actuleris / In pretio pretium
15. Firenze G: O tu, cara sciença mia, Musica
16. Firenze P: Uom ch’osa di veder
17. Firenze P: Amor mi stringe assai
The Archivio del Capitolo di San Lorenzo in Florence conserves a manuscript entitled Campione dei Beni which once served to record church properties. However, its parchment leaves originally belonged to a music manuscript compiled around 1420 in Florence. The musical notation was scraped off in order to make room for the new content. For a long time the remains of the musical notation were considered unreadable. It is only recently that scholars and scientists from the University of Hamburg have been able to render the original manuscript legible again by using the latest multispectral imaging technology.
The San Lorenzo Palimpsest, as the collection is known today, is an invaluable source of mainly Italian secular polyphonic music composed in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. It turned out to contain not only new readings of compositions known from other contemporary manuscripts, but also, and more importantly, completely unknown pieces by such Florentine composers as Giovanni Mazzuoli and his son Piero. La Morra breathes new life into these long-forgotten musical treasures, the majority of which are recorded here for the first time.