Composer: Jacob Arcadelt, Giulio Caccini, Pierre Certon, Giovanni Paolo Cima, Thomas Crecquillon, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Adam Jarzebski, Claude le Jeune, Orlando di Lassus, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Cipriano de Rore, Adrian Willaert
Performer: Anne Delafosse, Pascale Boquet, Les Sonadori
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Passacaille
Catalogue: PAS1056
Release: 2019
Size: 1.19 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Palestrina: Pulchra es amica mea
02. Arcadelt: O felici occhi miei, Recercadas primera & segunda
03. Palestrina: Deh, hor foss’io col vago della luna
04. Lassus: Susanne un jour
05. Rore: Ancor che co’l partire
06. Certon: Reviens vers moy
07. Palestrina: Musica divina: Vestiva i colli
08. Willaert: O salutaris hostia
09. Palestrina, Bassano: Vestiva i colli
10. Palestrina: Lasciar il velo
11. Crecquillon: Petite camusette
12. Gabucci: Magnificat del secondo tono
13. Jarzebski: Cantate Domino
14. Cima: Concerti ecclesiastici: Sonata a 4
15. Caccini: Sfogava con le stelle
16. Frescobaldi: Canzon quintadecima, detta la Lievoratta à due Bassi
17. Jeune: Susanne un jour
The most beautiful polyphonic canzoni, chansons, motets and madrigals, were used like today’s pop standards in the 16th century; musicians would improvise on them, tailoring their playing and imagination to each other. The colourful and varied selection of works on this recording is made up of different combinations of voices and instruments. A special aspect, a kind of renaissance violin band stands at the centre of this project: ensembles of violins were generally used to accompany certain moments in the Mass, at banquets, receptions, princely entertainments, entries into cities and palaces, diplomatic negotiations and sacred and secular processions as well as the long hours of dancing that followed the evening meal.
This all took place in northern Italy from the 1530s onwards, until the 1580s and 1590s announced the arrival of the new baroque style. The word Sonadori, the name of the ensemble, is Venetian in origin; the Scuole Grandi or confraternities there employed full-time ensembles of singers and musicians.
The confraternity of San Rocco was the first to replace the older instruments such as the fiddle, harp and lute with sonadori nuovi – new players – of the violin in 1531.