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Amours, Zéphyrs et Sirènes
- Giovanni Bassano: Suzanne un jour
- Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Gagliarda Decima
- Bellerofonte Castaldi:
- Sonata 5
- Sonata 7
- Ritornello primo
- Andrea Cima:
- Sonata a 3
- D'apres de Rore Ancor che col partire
- Andrea Falconieri:
- La Gioiosa fantasia
- Bayle de los dichos Diabolos
- Folias echa para mi senora dona Tarofilla de Caralenos
- Fantasia Padre Falla
- Girolamo Frescobaldi:
- Canzona quinta 'La Tromboncina'
- Toccata cromatica per l'Elevazione
- Canzon decimaterza 'La Blanchlna'
- Tarquinio Merula: Chiacona a 3
- Salomone Rossi:
- Sinfonia a 3
- Sonate Duodecima
- Sopra 'La Bergamasca'
- Bartolome de Selma y Salaverde: Vestiva icolli
- Don Marco Uccellini: Aria decima terza Sopra 'Questa Bella Sirena'
La Turbulente
(Frédérique Thouvenot and Susi Möhlmeier, recorders
Claire Giardelli, cello & cello piccolo
Mirella Giardelli, keyboards
Pascal Monteilhet, theorbo & archlute)
Naïve E 8884 55 mins
I enjoyed this delightful CD of Italian music from c.1585-1650 given by a prestigious team that played the same programme in the 2002 Ambronay Festival; the festival has an ongoing relationship with Naïve Classique and their generally desirable recordings of early music are enhanced by good recording and presentation.
Altogether stylish and a recommendable introduction to an attractive period in the development of instrumental music, based upon vocal antecedents and exploring the different expressive possibilities of solo instruments and ensembles.
This is a sequence of composers, many of them not well enough known to identify individual composing characteristics, but no matter; the gifted players hold the attention pleasurably by ringing the changes on the instruments, with solos interspersing the concerted items.
Copyright © 2004, Peter Grahame Woolf