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Narcisso Speculando
Madrigaux de Paolo da Firenze
1. Fra duri scogli (madrigal; 3 voices, trumpet)
2. Un pellegrin uccel (madrigal; 3 voices, vielle, harp, chitarrino, recorder)
3. Amor, deh dimmi (ballata; 4 voices, 2 vielles, chitarrino, recorder)
4. Lena virtù (ballata; 3 voices, vielle, chitarrino)
5. Isabella (istampita; 2 vielles, chitarrino, trumpet, recorder)
6. Non più infelice (madrigal; 2 voices, vielle)
7. Era Venus (madrigal; 3 voices, 2 vielles, harp, chitarrino, bells, recorder)
8. Cosa non è (istampita; 2 vielles, chitarrino, trumpet, recorder)
9. Godi Firenze (madrigal; 4 voices, 2 vielles, chitarrino, trumpet)
10. Girando un bel falcon (madrigal; 3 voices)
11. Un c'osa (istampita; organ, chitarrino, bells, recorder)
Mala Punica - Pedro Memelsdorff
Performers: Tina Aagaard (soprano, organ), Elisa Franzetti (soprano), Alessandro Carmignani (countertenor),
Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Amandine Beyer (vielle), Jane Achtman (vielle), Françoise Augustin (harp),
Mara Galassi (harp), Karl-Ernst Schröder (chitarrino), Felix Stricker (slide trumpet), Alberto Macchini (bells),
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder) / Recording date: September 1999 (Bologna)
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Don Paolo di Marco (c.1355-1436/7) was a Florentine abbot of some renown.
Besides thirteen madrigals, he also left 40-50 ballate and two sacred works.
He is also known for a text on music theory. The present program emphasizes
the madrigals, especially for their allegorical qualities and links to other music
of the time. The motivic approach of Paolo's music is also viewed as forward-thinking,
leading to analogies between this music and the Renaissance madrigal, with
which it shares no tangible historical connection.