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Intavolatura De Cimbalo
Brilliant Classics

Intavolatura De Cimbalo

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Details

Composer
VALENTE, ANTONIO
Artist
Falcone
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
May 25, 2018
Catalog #
BRI95326
UPC
5028421953267

About

The Naples of Antonio Valente was the principal city of the Spanish Empire of the day, second only to Istanbul of Mediterranean cities in population, a cultural and intellectual hub where ideas were traded as readily as goods at the port. This is the context for ready wit and vivid characters dancing before us in the harpsichord manuscript left to us as the principal work of an instrumental virtuoso who was blind from birth. Little else is known of Valente, though he became an organist in one of the city's private chapel between 1565 and 1580, and we know that this Intavolatura was published in 1576, by which time the composer's reputation had spread far beyond the kingdom of Naples. It seems certain that the collection was the first of it's kind to be written in southern Italy. These are popular dances rather than original melodies, and Valente transcribes and elaborates them in various genres of song and dance: there are hymns (a Salve Regina), galliards, ricercars, ballads, even a flamboyant 'Bascia Flammignia', placed in exuberant juxtaposition, hardly designed to be heard in strict order but a collection to delight and entertain. The Intavolatura does so here, thanks to the imaginative re-instrumentation and sparkling performances of an Italian early-music ensemble, L'Amorosa Caccia. The songs are reattributed to a pair of singers (Giulia Valentini and Marcos Garcia Gutierrez), accompanied by two violas da gamba and a recorder, with the overall artistic direction undertaken from the keyboard by Fabio Antonio Falcone.

Tracklist 24 tracks

  1. 1 Fantasia del primio tono 05:21
    Track
    1
    Title
    Fantasia del primio tono
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  2. 2 Qui la dira la peine de mon coeur 01:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    Qui la dira la peine de mon coeur
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Adrian Willaert
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
    Ensemble
    L' Amorosa Caccia
    Conductor
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  3. 3 Chi la dirra, disminuita 03:28
    Track
    3
    Title
    Chi la dirra, disminuita
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  4. 4 Recercata del ottavo tono 02:24
    Track
    4
    Title
    Recercata del ottavo tono
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  5. 5 Bascia flammignia 02:13
    Track
    5
    Title
    Bascia flammignia
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
    Ensemble
    L' Amorosa Caccia
    Conductor
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  6. 6 Galliarda napolitana 01:55
    Track
    6
    Title
    Galliarda napolitana
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  7. 7 Recercata del primo tono 04:01
    Track
    7
    Title
    Recercata del primo tono
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  8. 8 Lo ballo dell'intorcia 01:08
    Track
    8
    Title
    Lo ballo dell'intorcia
    Duration
    01:08
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Tímea Nagy, Fabio Antonio Falcone
  9. 9 Gagliarda lombarda (arr. for chamber ensemble) 00:53
    Track
    9
    Title
    Gagliarda lombarda (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    00:53
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
    Ensemble
    L' Amorosa Caccia
    Conductor
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  10. 10 Ballo lombardo (arr. for chamber ensemble) 01:50
    Track
    10
    Title
    Ballo lombardo (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
    Ensemble
    L' Amorosa Caccia
    Conductor
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  11. 11 Recercata del sesto tono 04:14
    Track
    11
    Title
    Recercata del sesto tono
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  12. 12 Tenore grande alla napolitana 02:13
    Track
    12
    Title
    Tenore grande alla napolitana
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  13. 13 Recercata del terzo tono 03:46
    Track
    13
    Title
    Recercata del terzo tono
    Duration
    03:46
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  14. 14 Salve Regina 03:09
    Track
    14
    Title
    Salve Regina
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  15. 15 Tenore del passo e mezo 02:41
    Track
    15
    Title
    Tenore del passo e mezo
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  16. 16 La romanesca 01:43
    Track
    16
    Title
    La romanesca
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Tímea Nagy, Fabio Antonio Falcone
  17. 17 Pis ne me peult venir 01:39
    Track
    17
    Title
    Pis ne me peult venir
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Thomas Crecquillon
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
    Ensemble
    L' Amorosa Caccia
    Conductor
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  18. 18 Pisne disminuita 06:08
    Track
    18
    Title
    Pisne disminuita
    Duration
    06:08
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  19. 19 Recercata del septimo tono 02:55
    Track
    19
    Title
    Recercata del septimo tono
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  20. 20 Tenore de zefiro 03:50
    Track
    20
    Title
    Tenore de zefiro
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  21. 21 Recercata del primio tono a cinque 06:06
    Track
    21
    Title
    Recercata del primio tono a cinque
    Duration
    06:06
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  22. 22 Sortemeplus con alcuni fiorett (arr. for voice and harpsichord) 02:47
    Track
    22
    Title
    Sortemeplus con alcuni fiorett (arr. for voice and harpsichord)
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Giulia Valentini, Fabio Antonio Falcone
  23. 23 Sortemeplus disminuita 03:16
    Track
    23
    Title
    Sortemeplus disminuita
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Antonio Valente
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
  24. 24 Sortez mes pleurs 02:36
    Track
    24
    Title
    Sortez mes pleurs
    Duration
    02:36
    Composer
    Philippe de Monte
    Performer
    Fabio Antonio Falcone
    Ensemble
    L' Amorosa Caccia
    Conductor
    Fabio Antonio Falcone