Andrea Chezzi - Æmilia - renaissance keyboard music from castell'arquato manuscr

Artist: Andrea Chezzi Title: Æmilia - renaissance keyboard music from castell'arquato manuscripts Year Of Release: 2026 Label: Da Vinci Classics Genre: Classical Quality: flac lossless (tracks)  24bits - 96.0kHz Total Time: 01:01:47 Total Size:  1.31 gb Tracklist 01. Ricercada de marcantonio in bologna 02. Pavana - Saltarello de la pavana - La coda I 03. Ricercada 04. Pavana - Saltarello de la pavana - La coda II 05. Ricerchare 06. Ricerchada 07. Pavana - Saltarello de la pavana - Riprese 08. La Delfina 09. Gazollo 10. Il puliselo 11. La moretta 12. Il cramoneso 13. Zorzo I 14. Ricercada Vil 15. O gloriosa domina 16. La fugitiva Claudius a. 4 17. Il carmoneso 18. Pavana de la bataglia - Il saltarello de la bataglia - La tedeschina 19. Ricercare 20. Io mi son giovineta 21. Ricercada II 22. Pavana in su la chiave di b fa be mi - Saltarello de la pavana - Ripresa 23. Il caselle 24. Il milaneso 25. Ciel turchin 26. La pose borela 27. Recercada per b mollo del primo tono 28. Pavana - Saltarello de la pavana - la coda III 29. Zorzo II 30. Non ti partir da me 31. Al milanese 32. Liciolo 33. Ricerchare per musica ficta The archive of the Chiesa Collegiata di Castell’Arquato (Piacenza), in Emilia, preserves within it an important musical fonds, consisting of manuscript and printed music dating chiefly from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This collection affords us a view of the activity of a small Po Valley chapel of that period. In several fascicles there survives a series of intabulations for keyboard instrument, written by different copyists over a span ranging from the first half of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the next. The assembled pieces are of various types: dances, works of a religious character, ricercars, transcriptions. The keyboard instruments for which these pieces are intended are the organ—principally for works of a sacred character—and the harpsichord (or the virginal), preferred for the dances, while the transcriptions and ricercars can be adapted to both instruments. The instrument used for the present recording is an Italian virginal dating from the late sixteenth century. An anthological selection of pieces contained in the Castell’Arquato collection has been made in order to enhance this rare historical specimen with the most suitable pages and to offer an overall survey of the various musical forms present in the manuscripts. The use of early fingerings has served to render more unified and coherent the choices relating to phrasing, articulation and agogic shaping, in a body of compositions as variegated as that presented here. It was decided not to include pieces specifically intended for the liturgy of the Mass, which are more suited to performance on the organ. The identifiable composers for some of the works recorded here are organists and maestri di cappella of Emilian origin who were esteemed in the most important Italian musical centres: the Bolognese Marco Antonio Cavazzoni; the Modenese Jacopo da Fogliano and his pupil Giulio Segni; the Piacentines Claudio Maria Veggio and Giuseppe Villani. To these authors we owe above all the ricercars, a form considered more worthy of an authorial reference than the dances, which in this manuscript are anonymous. As for the dances, they were probably conceived for an aristocratic patronage connected with the Farnese, on the occasion of nuptial festivities celebrating marriages within this illustrious aristocratic family. With regard to the transcriptions, these too are by unknown hands, but it is possible to identify the original piece and trace the author of the latter. The composers identified for two works recorded here are Adrian Willaert, a Fleming active in northern Italy, and the Bolognese Domenico Maria Ferrabosco. The ricercari, or ricercade. These are pieces whose formal structure is rather open, diverging from excessively strict vocal models in the direction of a writing alread

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