Botticelli: "La Primavera"
Fifteenth-century Europe overflowed with sacred song. Veneto was an important destination for composers from throughout Europe. On this edition of Baroque&Before, Basel-based early music ensemble Le Miroir de Musique brings us a program of Italian polyphony in the form of laudas, motets, and the sung religious poetry of cantasi come.
Recorded live in concert July 7, 2022 in Fribourg’s Eglise du Collège Saint-Michel as part of the International Sacred Music Festival held in the Swiss canton of Fribourg.
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Playlist
Johannes de Lymburgia (fl. 1400-1440)
Recordare frater pie
Anonymous; text: Leonardo Giustiniani (ca. 1383-1446)
Piangeti christiani
Johannes Bedyngham (?-ca 1459-60); text: Feo Belcari (15th c.)
Neesun placer ho senza te Yesù – Cantasi come – Mon sel plesir
Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro (ca. 1425-ca 1480)
“El gioioso” (Rostiboli) from Little Book on Dancing
Anonymous
O tempo giocundissimo
Johannes Vincenet (ca 1400-1447)
Nihil est opertum
Anonymous
Convertime o signore
Johannes de Lymburgia
Salve virgo regia
Anonymous; text: Franceschino degli Albizzi (?-1348)
Con gran fervor Gesù ti vo cercando – Cantasi come – Iam preis amore
Filippo de Lurano (ca. 1470-after 1520)
Salve sacrata
Anonymous; text: Franceschino degli Albizzi
Poi che t’hebi ne core – Cantasi come – Fortuna desperata
Andrea Antico (ca. 1480-ca 1538)
Quel ch’ei ciel ne dà per sorte
Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl. 1500-08)
Patientia ognum me dice
Innocentius Dammonis (ca. 1460-?)
Peccatori, perchè seti
Anonymous
Padovana in piva – O Dio ch’a fatto il ciel con la fortuna
Josquin des Prez (1455-1521)
O Mater Dei
Anonymous
Laudate sia dio, sur une mélodie profane, Dindiririn
ARTISTS
Le Miroir de Musique
Baptiste Romain: director, bowed fiddle, Renaissance violin, lira da braccio
Miriam Trevisan, soprano; Sabine Lutzenberger, mezzo-soprano; Jacob Lawrence, tenor; Cyprien Sadek, bartione; Rui Stähelin, bass & lute; Elizabeth Rumsey, viola d’arco & Renaissance viola; Marc Lewon, lute
