Segreti Accenti - Italian Renaissance Music / Cantar alla Viola

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Label
Quartz Music
Release Date
April 6, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Cantar Alla Viola, Balbeisi, Marin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 06, 2018
    • UPC
      880040212522
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      QTZ2125
    • LABEL
      Quartz Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Aura soave

      Composer: Luzzasco Luzzaschi

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    2. Amor tien il suo regno

      Composer: Luca Marenzio

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    3. Se mai vedete amanti

      Composer: Costanzo Festa

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    4. Mort m'a privé a 4

      Composer: Thomas Crecquillon

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    5. Amor, l'mi lamento

      Composer: Andreas de Florentia

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    6. Il primo libro delle villanelle: Lasso non è cor mio ch'io ti rimiri

      Composer: Luca Marenzio

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    7. Io vorrei Dio d'amore

      Composer: Sylvestro Ganassi

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    8. Con la fronte fiorita e i crin'ardenti

      Composer: Luca Marenzio

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    9. Al primo vostro sguardo

      Composer: Luca Marenzio

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    10. Dicemi la mia stella

      Composer: Luca Marenzio

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    11. Ricercare No. 2

      Composer: Girolamo Cavazzoni

      Performer: Fernando Marin

    12. Ogni diletto

      Composer: Magister Piero

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    13. Altro non è'l mio amor

      Composer: Costanzo Festa

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    14. O primavera

      Composer: Luzzasco Luzzaschi

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    15. Alma che fai, che pensi

      Composer: Luca Marenzio

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    16. Le rose, fronde e fiori

      Composer: Luca Marenzio

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    17. Ahime che col fuggire

      Composer: Luca Marenzio

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    18. Ricercare No. 7

      Composer: Francesco da Milano

      Performer: Fernando Marin

    19. Cavalcando con un giovine accorto

      Composer: Magister Piero

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    20. Madonna io mi consumo

      Composer: Costanzo Festa

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola

    21. Ch'io non t'ami cor mio

      Composer: Luzzasco Luzzaschi

      Ensemble: Cantar alla Viola


This release is dedicated to one of the most esteemed musical practices of the Renaissance: the art of accompanying the voice with the viola da gamba. Cantare alla viola (singing with a viol) is the name for this practice, which was quite common at the time. The art of this practice lies in the ability of the “viola” player to arrange and play madrigals to accompany one single voice, as a lutenist or vihuela player commonly does. Cantar alla Viola has careful selected some of the finest pieces of the Italian Renaissance in order to illustrate the intimate and skillful musical practice of Cantare alla viola. The pieces vary from the subtle and transparent trecento 2-voice ballades of Magister Piero and Andrea da Firenze played on the viella, to the exquisite and virtuous madrigals for one soprano by Luzzascho Luzasschi, accompanied by the viola da gamba. The Renaissance villanelle and 3-voice madrigals by Luca Marenzio and Costanzo Festa, are adapted for the polyphonic playing of two different bowed vihuelas. Solo pieces have been added to the release to show the instrumental practice on a bowed vihuela through arrangements of lute and keyboard pieces by composers such as Marco Antonio Cavazzoni or Francesco da Milano.