Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250-1750 / Corti, La Morra, Theatro delli Cervelli

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Release Date
February 23, 2024
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      La Morra, Theatro Dei Cervelli, Francesco Corti
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 23, 2024
    • UPC
      4250128522069
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RAM2206
    • LABEL
      Ramee
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. O levita nobilis Eugeni [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    2. Ogne homo [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    3. Vergine donzella imperadrice: O levita nobilis Eugeni [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    4. I' vo' bene

      Composer: Gherardello da Firenze

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    5. Nella più cara parte

      Composer: Francesco Landini

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    6. La Manfredina - La rotta della Manfredina [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    7. Astio non mori mai

      Composer: Andreas de Florentia

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    8. Verbum caro factum est [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    9. Umil madonna

      Composer: John Bedyngham

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    10. Poichè il tuo cor [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    11. Adieu Florens la yolye

      Composer: Pietrequin

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    12. In mijnem sin

      Composer: Alexander Agricola

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    13. Nè più bella di queste

      Composer: Heinrich Isaac

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    14. Iesù sommo conforto

      Composer: Paulus Scotus

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    15. Donna, el pianto et la mia doglia

      Composer: Giovanni Serragli

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    16. Sacerdos et pontifex [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: La Morra

      Conductor: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko

    17. Sacerdos et pontifex

      Composer: Francesco Corteccia

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    18. Ricercar del primo tuono del Zazzerino

      Composer: Jacopo Peri

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    19. I'vo piangendo i miei passati tempi

      Composer: Cristofano Malvezzi

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    20. Mentre con mill'amori

      Composer: Luca Bati

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    21. Nasce la pena mia

      Composer: Alessandro Striggio

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    22. Nasce la pena mia (intavolato)

      Composer: Alessandro Striggio

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    23. Stabat mater dolorosa

      Composer: Serafino Razzi

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    24. Se nelle voci nostre

      Composer: Luca Marenzio

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    25. Godi turba mortal

      Composer: Emilio de' Cavalieri

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    26. Fuga secunda à 4

      Composer: Cristofano Malvezzi

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    27. Si bona suscepimus

      Composer: Philippe Verdelot

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    28. Aria di Firenze

      Composer: Giovanni Paolo Foscarini

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    29. La pastorella

      Composer: Antonio Brunelli

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    30. Partite sopra L'aria di Fiorenza

      Composer: Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    31. Quando il sol apparisce

      Composer: Antonio Brunelli

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    32. Aria di Fiorenza [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    33. Cantate Domino

      Composer: Antonio Brunelli

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    34. Io parto lasso

      Composer: Giovanni Pietro Bucchianti

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    35. Aria di Fiorenza Prima, Second, Terza, Quarta (4 variazioni)

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Ferrini

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    36. Splendete serene

      Composer: Antonio Brunelli

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    37. Di quel nudo pargoletto

      Composer: Antonio Brunelli

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    38. Aria di Fiorenza - La Rotta - Saltarel [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Francesco Corti, Anonymous

    39. La Salviata

      Composer: Domenico Anglesi

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    40. Sull'affricane arene

      Composer: Marco da Gagliano

      Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli

      Conductor: Andrés Locatelli

    41. Preludio Cantabile con Ligature [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    42. Aria alla Francese [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    43. Passacagli Pastorali [Florence, 1250–1750]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    44. Pastorale

      Composer: Domenico Zipoli

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    45. Canzona in G Minor

      Composer: Domenico Zipoli

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    46. Al Post Comunio

      Composer: Domenico Zipoli

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    47. All'Elevazione

      Composer: Domenico Zipoli

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    48. All'Offertorio

      Composer: Domenico Zipoli

      Performer: Francesco Corti

    49. Pastorale meza bigia fatta apposta per la Gigia

      Composer: Francesco Feroci

      Performer: Francesco Corti


This double album accompanies the eponymous book by Anthony M. Cummings, Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250-1750 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London 2023). They are designed to enable readers and listeners to enter the sound world of late-medieval and early-modern Florence. Despite the enviable place Florence occupies in the historical imagination, its music-historical importance is not as well-understood as it should be. Yet if Florence was the city of Dante Alighieri, Niccolò Machiavelli, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Galileo Galilei, it was also the birthplace of the Renaissance madrigal, opera, and the piano.

Our goal in assembling this set of recordings, which survey the principal surviving genres of music in Florence in the half-millennium between c. 1250 and c. 1750, was to provide a “virtual” evocation of the extraordinary musical culture of golden-age Florence, one of unsurpassed importance. Through the integration of the contents of the book and the CDs, and leveraging text, image, musical notation, and sound, we offer our listeners the possibility of a fascinating metaphoric time travel.