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Early Sixteenth Century Venetian Lute Music

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Early Sixteenth Century Venetian Lute Music
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StudioHarmonia Mundi Fr.
Release DateMarch 9, 1999
UPC Code093046721527
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Tracks

  1. Pavana alla venetiana
  2. Saltarello
  3. Piva
  4. Recercar primo
  5. De tous bien playne
  6. De tu biens plaene: De tu biens plaene - nel ton del primo recercar
  7. Padoana belissima
  8. Spagna seconda
  9. Recercar II:XIII: Recercar II:XIII - che sono mi solo. bello. che altri che mi on la
  10. O mia ciecha e dura sorte
  11. Che farala, che dirala
  12. Recercare
  13. Malor me bat
  14. Piva
  15. Laudato Dio
  16. Recercar
  17. Calata ala spagnola ditto terzetti
  18. Recercar quinto: Recercar quinto - belissimo
  19. Non ti spiaqua l'ascoltar - motetto bello
  20. La vilanela
  21. Recercare
  22. Adiu mes amours
  23. Recercare
  24. Tientalora, Balletto da ballare
  25. Et interra pax: Et interra pax - niun non la solum mi
  26. Qui tolis pechata mondi: Qui tolis pechata mondi - chosa belisima
  27. Tastar de corde - Recercar dietro
  28. Pavana alla ferrarese
  29. Saltarello
  30. Piva

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User Reviews

Average user review: 5.0 (1 reviews)

rating: 5 QuoteApollo's Lyre come to lifeQuote
Five hundred years ago, a humble lute student by the name of Vidal recorded his master's compositions in a hand-drawn tablature book. Well aware of the ill-fate befalling musical masterpieces with the passage of time and generations, he decided to embellish the book's pages with fantastic hand-painted scenes - "so that even the unlearned man, seduced by its visual beauty, may preserve it and pass it on intact."

It is thanks to Vidal's foresight that today this precious manuscript survives, along with the sublime music it contains. And this CD is one of the absolute best performances of it I have heard.

Paul O'Dette chose three composers to represent early Northern Italian lute output: along with Vidal's master (Vincenzo Capirola, dated around 1517), there is the music from the two earliest surviving printed lute tablature books - Francesco Spinacino and Joanambrosio Dalza (1508).

This early lute music is extremely diverse and fascinating, and O'Dette does it full justice in both piece-selection and interpretation. Dalza is best known for his bold dances, which show a strong influence of when the lute was played with a plectrum rather than picked with the fingers. Spinacino stands out for his fiery ricercari, with alternating fast single-note runs and brief counterpointal meditations. But it is Capirola and his vast tapestry of colors that gets the lion's share in this CD (dances, ricercari, vocal pieces set for lute).

Words cannot describe how expressive and varied this music is. Listen to tracks 4 (Ricercare primo), 7 (Padoana bellissima) and 8 (Spagna seconda) to get a sense of the confidence and the maturity that this style had achieved by the early 16th Century.
The lute was rigtfully considered the most versatile musical medium, second only to the human voice - and O'Dette's performance of this incredible music makes you understand why.

Even among O'Dette's excellent CD lineup, this selection stands out as an extraordinary achievement. I could not recommend it more enthusiastically. May 3, 2005

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