Composer: Giovanni Martino Cesare
Performer: Les Sacqueboutiers, Guillemette Laurens, Jean-Louis Comoretto, John Elwes, Bernard Fabre-Garrus, Yves Bergé, Jean-Yves Guerry, Marie-Claude Valin, Bruno Boterf
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Flora
Catalogue: FLO3615
Release: 2015
Size: 337 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Musicali melodie per voci et instrumenti
01. No. 28, La Vittoria, a 6 (Tre cornetti, tre tromboni)
02. No. 23, Beata es Virgo Maria, a 4 (Tre tromboni e tenore)
03. No. 18, Jubilate Deo, a 4 (Due soprani, cornetto e basso)
04. No. 19, Salve Regina, a 4 (Due soprani, due tenori)
05. No. 22, La Fenice, a 4 (Due cornetti e due tromboni)
06. No. 20, La Bavara, a 4 (4 Tromboni)
07. No. 21, La Monachina, a 4 (Tre Cornetti e trombone)
08. No. 11, Isti sunt duae olivae, a 2 (Due tenori)
09. No. 12, Sancta Maria, a 3 (Due soprani e basso)
10. No. 17, Veni sponsa Christi, a 3 (Due soprani e tenore)
11. No. 9, La Lioannina, a 2 (Due cornetti ò violini)
12. No. 8, La Massimiliana, a 2 (Due cornetti ò violini)
13. No. 10, La Augustana, a 2 (Cornetto e Trombone)
14. No. 24, O Domine Jesu Christe, a 4 (Due soprani e due bassi)
15. No. 25, Cantate Dominum, a 4 (Due soprani, alto e basso)
16. No. 26, Gabriel Angelus, a 4 (Due tenori, alto e canto)
17. No. 1, La Foccarina, a 1 (Cornetto ò vero violino solo)
18. No. 3, La Hieronyma, a 1 (Trombone ò viola solo)
19. No. 2, La Giorgina, a 1 (Cornetto ò vero violino solo)
20. No. 4, O Domine Jesu Christe, a 2 (Due soprani)
21. No. 6, Domine exaudi, a 2 (Due soprani)
22. No. 7, Laudate pueri Dominum, a 2
23. No. 5, Assumpta est Maria, a 2 (Due soprani)
24. No. 15, La Gioia, a 3 (Due cornetti ò violini, e trombone)
25. No. 14, La Famosa, a 3 (Due cornetti e trombone)
26. No. 13, La Constanza, a 3 (Due cornetti e trombone)
27. No. 16, Ecco, a 3 (Tre cornetti ò violini)
28. No. 27, Benedicam Dominum, a 5 (Due soprani, due cornetti e tenore)
Giovanni Martino Cesare (Udine, c.1590 – Munich, 6 February 1667) was a composer and cornett player who like many of his contemporaries found employment abroad where he flourished. By 1611 (his first publication) he was resident as cornetto player at the house of Charles, Margrave of Burgau (d.1618) at Günzburg, near Augsburg. In 1615 he became an employee of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, as a cornettist, and where he wrote his best known collection ‘Musicali melodie’: a collection of sonatas for cornetts and sackbuts that contains one of the only solo sonatas for trombone.
The sole complete copy of the ‘Musicali Melodie’ is to be found in the Episcopal Library of Regensburg. Of the 28 numbers listed in the table of contents, 14 of these are Sacred Concerts with one to five voices and basso continuo, along with 14 instrumental pieces one to six parts with bc. The informative booklet essay, by Les Sacqueboutiers’ Jean-Pierre Canihac, notes similarities with the ‘Divine lodi musicali’ of Giovanni Battista Riccio and Cima’s ‘Concerti Ecclesiastici’ [1610] which also offer a mixture of sacred motets and instrumental canzone.