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A Songbook for Isabella
Music from the circle of Isabella d’Este


Musica Antiqua
directed by Philip Thorby


"a very satisfying compilation combining scholarship with sensuous pleasure"

Peter Grahame Woolf, Musical Pointers

    "a very civilized disc with music to charm and excite"

Gary Higginson, Ludwig Van Web

      "pleasurable and abundant discoveries await the more adventurous listener"

Michael Cookson, Music Web


Performance Notes

INSTRUMENTARIUM

Clare Wilkinson (a) mezzo-soprano
Philip Thorby (b) tenor viol
  (c) alto recorder
  (d) tenor recorder
  (e) alto crumhorn
  (f) bass crumhorn
John Bryan (g) treble viol
  (h) tenor recorder
  (i) tenor crumhorn
Alison Crum (j) tenor viol
  (k) bass recorder
  (l) bass crumhorn
Roy Marks (m) bass viol
  (n) tenor recorder
  (o) tenor crumhorn
Jacob Heringman (p) lute (Andrew Rutherford, USA, 1997)
  (q) lute (Michael Lowe, Oxfordshire, 1999, after Frei)
  (r) Renaissance guitar (Brendan Hirst, England, 1990)

Set of four viols by West Dean Musical Instrument Workshop, England 2002

Bows by Alan Crumpler, Gerhard Landwehr & Roger Rose

Strings by Real Guts & Gamut

Set of four recorders by Bob Marvin, Canada 1975

Set of four crumhorns by Eric Moulder, England 1980
La Fortuna:  
1 Or su corere à 4 - anon a j b m [3:31]
2 Fortuna desperata à 4 - Antoine Busnois g b j m [1:36]
3 Facia ognon in fin che po à 4 - anon a b j m [2:23]
Prenez sur moy vostre example:  
4 Prenez sur moy à 3 - Johannes Ockeghem a p g j m   [3:21]
5 Helas que pora advenire à 3 - Firminius Caron g b m       [3:13]
6 Or che son di pregion à 4 - Bartolomeo Tromboncino a b j m     [3:20]
A la cazza:  
7 A la pesca à 4 - Iannes Plice c h n k [2:00]
8 (8) [Gagliarda] Peschatore - anon r c [0:37]
9 A la cazza à 4 - anon a r d h j m [1:53]
Kyrie Eleison:  
10 Kyrie leison à 4 - anon a b j m [3:54]
11 Colomba senza fielle - anon a g b m [5:30]
               
12 Pavana regia - anon q [2:06]
Carmine sine verbis I:  
13 El piove à 3 - anon g b m [1:57]
14 Si dedero à 3, à 4 - Alexander Agricola g b j m [2:33]
Ave Maris Stella:  
15 Ave maris stella à 3 - anon a g b j [5:35]
La Mi La Sol:  
16 La mi à 4 - Heinrich Isaac g b j m [2:16]
17 La mi la sol la mi gia vol à 4 - anon a b j m [1:40]
Viva el Grand Hercule!:  
18 O triumphale diamante à 4 - G.L. a i o f     [1:18]
19 Tente alora à 4 - anon e h o l [0:47]
In Festo Natalis Domini:  
20 Verbum caro factus est à 3 - anon g b j       [2:11]
21 Ne la digna stalla à 2 - anon a r g b [2:44]
               
22 Recerchar di Benedictus - anon q           [1:31]
23 Benedictus - anon/Isaac q [2:18]
Carmine sine Verbis II:              
24 Absque verbis à 3 - Heinrich Isaac b j m       [2:03]
25 Gratis acceptistis à 4 - Heinrich Isaac g b j m [1:50]
26 La Mora à 3, à 4 - Heinrich Isaac g b j m [2:27]
La Speranza:  
27 In te Domine speravi à 4 - Josquin des Prez a p g h j m [4:21]
28 [Salterelli] Zorzi, Giorgio - anon p c h n k   [1:33]
29 Forte cosa è la speranza à 5 - anon a r g b j m [3:22]
               
Total Running Time [75:26]

Title Page
Programme Notes
    Texts
Commentaire
    Textes Chantés
Kommentar
    Gesangstexte
Reviews
Credits
Musica Antiqua
Clare Wilkinson
Release date: 19th May 2003
Order code: SIGCD039
Barcode: 635212003923
 

 

Order Code:
    SIGCD038

Barcode:
    635212003824

Release date:
    19th May 2003

Recorded:
    20–22 September 2002, National Centre for Early Music, York

Production:
    Mark Anthony Music Productions

Engineering:
    Floating Earth

Producer:
    Mark Brown

Engineer:
    Limo Hearn

Producer:
    Mark Brown

Booklet Notes:
    Philip Thorby

Translations:
    English translation of ‘In te Domine’: Richard Andrews
    English translations of ‘Colomba senza fielle’,
      ‘Or su corere’ and ‘Ne la digna stalla’: Massimo Redaelli
    English translations of all other Italian works:
      Alessandro Scafi
    French translation: Robert Bagur
    German translation: Margarete Forsyth

Text and translation editor:
    Christine Darby

Booklet cover design:
    ATX Design Associates

Booklet layout and typesetting:
    Jan Hart

Copyright:
    © Copyright 2003 Signum Records Ltd


 

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