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    1. Folias y Glosas - Legacies of the Spanish Golden Age
    Arcana

    Folias y Glosas - Legacies of the Spanish Golden Age

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Various
    Artist
    Concerto Scirocco, Giulia Genini
    Released
    Oct 16, 2026
    Folias y Glosas', the new recording project of the ensemble Concerto Scirocco, is a musical journey into the Spain of the late 16th/early 17th century, taking in a repertoire rich in colours, rhythm and influences that weaves together folk memory and sophisticated artistry. The title alludes to two key elements of early performance practice: the folias, an ostinato of folk origin with a cyclic structure, and the glosas, a term synonymous with ornament and embellishment. Alongside the names of great Iberian composers such as Antonio de Cabezon and Diego Ortiz and pieces from the Cancionero de Palacio, the programme also investigates the ramifications of Spanish influence in Europe, with music by Michael Praetorius, Bartolome de Selma y Salaverde, Andrea Falconieri and Johannes Ghiselin. The cultural links between Spain, Italy and the northern countries, which testify to the circulation of styles and ideas between the courts and cities of Baroque Europe, are here revealed in a refined, yet spirited, musical overview. With Folias y Glosas, Concerto Scirocco brings to listeners the richness of expression and variety of timbre of a repertoire that still sounds surprisingly modern.
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  • Folias y Glosas - Legacies of the Spanish Golden Age

    Folias y Glosas - Legacies of the Spanish Golden Age

    Arcana Oct 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
  • Orlando furioso: Madrigali sul poema di Ludovico Ariosto

    Orlando furioso: Madrigali sul poema di Ludovico Ariosto

    Arcana Sep 2011
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    1. La morte della ragione
    2. La morte della ragione
    Alpha

    La morte della ragione

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico
    Released
    May 10, 2019
    'The senses reign, and Reason now is dead' (Petrarch). Giovanni Antonini, flautist and founder of the legendary Italian ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, enjoys musical voyages, the discursiveness of music. He begins with an anonymous 16th century pavane, La Morte della Ragione (The Death of Reason), which he believes refers to In Praise of Folly, in which it's author Erasmus distinguishes between two forms of madness: 'a sweet illusion of the spirit,' and a negative form, 'one that the vengeful Furies conjure up from hell... ' This succession of 'musical pictures' leads us to the threshold of the baroque era, starting out with the Puzzle Canon by John Dunstable (1390- ca.1453), whose manuscript is an enigma, via the 'bizarre' style of Alexander Agricola (1446- ca.1506) and his obsessive, ostinato rhythm - almost an anticipation of minimalist music... to the improvisatory freedom of the Galliard Battaglia de Scheidt (1587-1654), a battle piece involving a great many diminutions or 'divisions', a common technique of improvisation in the Renaissance... This grand instrumental musical fresco of time and space is a kind of self-portrait of Giovanni Antonini and his longstanding musical colleagues.
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  • La morte della ragione
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    La morte della ragione

    Alpha May 2019
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99