Music for the Eyes - Masques and Fancies / Genini, Concerto Scirocco

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Label
Arcana
Release Date
March 11, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Concerto Scirocco, Giulia Genini
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 11, 2022
    • UPC
      3760195735237
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      A523
    • LABEL
      Arcana
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Fantazia No. 4

      Composer: John Hilton

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    2. The Satyrs Masque

      Composer: Robert Johnson

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    3. Courtly Masquing Ayres: Ayre No. 20 - No. 21

      Composer: John Adson

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    4. Johney Cock thy Beavor: A Scotch Tune to a Ground

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    5. Fantazia No. 5

      Composer: John Hilton

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    6. Paduana

      Composer: William Brade

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    7. Division Woodycock [Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.5.20, 1595-1600]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    8. A Division [London, British Library, Add MS 36661, 1630]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    9. Fantazia 3

      Composer: John Hilton

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    10. Der Pilligrienen Tanz (Dance of the Pilgrims)

      Composer: William Brade

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    11. Preludio

      Composer: John Hilton

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    12. Hugh Ashton's Maske

      Composer: Hugh Ashton, William Whytbroke

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    13. The Tempest

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    14. Fantazia No. 2

      Composer: John Hilton

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    15. Fantazia No. 1

      Composer: John Hilton

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    16. Ayre No. 16

      Composer: John Adson

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    17. Ayre No. 17

      Composer: John Adson

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    18. Canzon XVI

      Composer: William Brade

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    19. Coral

      Composer: William Brade

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    20. Sermone blando a 3

      Composer: William Byrd

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini

    21. Almaine the Night Watch

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco

      Conductor: Giulia Genini


Acclaimed for its ‘rhythmic verve, spontaneity and riot of splendid colors’ (Pizzicato magazine on Giovanni Picchi’s Canzoni da Sonar con ogni sorte d’istromenti), Concerto Scirocco now immerses itself in the English musical scene of the Elizabethan era, and more especially the genres of the masque and the fantasia.

Great cultural ferment swept through England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The courts invested huge sums of money in the production of ‘masques’, entertainments combining music, dance, theatre and stage design in a sumptuous display of grandeur. At the same time, the first public playhouses were founded in the suburban districts of London: The Theatre, the Red Lion, the Rose, the Swan, and in 1599 Shakespeare’s Globe. Music played a key role in accompanying this eccentric burst of cultural vitality: the asymmetrical fantasias of John Hilton, the monumental canzonas and pavanes of William Brade, the impudent, rhetorical masques of Robert Johnson and others, reveal an era of unparalleled musical invention and exploration.