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The frottola is a genre of the early sixteenth century that gets just a brief mention in music history texts as a forerunner of the Italian madrigal; its tremendous popularity is conceded, and clearly visiting Netherlanders such as Josquin were compelled to try their hands at it. Josquin's El grillo, not included here, is the most famous instance (try YouTube for some delightful European high school choral versions), and those who have heard frottole at all tend to think of them as bouncy, homophonic, and humorous. Singer Marco Beasley, music director Guido Morini, and the Italian early music group Accordone set out to change this impression and stress the frottola's links with the emerging humanist movement. The frottola in this group's hands is simpler, less stylized, and more emotional than the Northern chansons that epitomized secular vocal art in the Italian noble and mercantile courts of the day. The result is a really lovely disc. Beasley's ingratiating tenor, the only voice heard, is ideally suited to the frottola's romantic lyrics, and Accordone slows down pieces like Marco Cara's Io non compro più speranza, track 19, and fills them out with a free, lute-based accompaniment of the sort heard on Jordi Savall's recordings of Renaissance secular repertory. The musicians make a convincing case that the top line, sung by Beasley, is really a melodic line. The booklet -- with notes and texts in Italian, French, Dutch, and English -- rejects the idea of the frottola as a folk-influenced, semi-popular form, but sample one of the most attractive pieces, Bartolomeo Tromboncino's Sù, sù leva, alza la ciglia (track 8), and hear its irresistible Dorian tune, which still suggests an origin outside the cultivated sphere. The program is interspersed with instrumental pieces (mostly dance pairs) and religious works in the same style -- these are sometimes called laude, although the performers avoid that term. The last work on the disc is also intriguing: Beasley contributes Tu dormi, a modern composition drawing on a frottola by Tromboncino. This is something different from the usual run of modern compositions that layer French neo-classic harmonies onto Renaissance models -- Beasley abstracts the gestures of Tromboncino's piece into a melancholy solo line. This disc, beautifully recorded, is both enjoyable in itself and productive of new directions in approaching secular Renaissance Italian repertory.
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Ostinato vo' seguire (Marco Cara)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Marco Cara, Composer - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Chi passa per 'sta strada (Filippo Azzaiolo)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Filippo Azzaiolo, Composer - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Non piu saette Amor (Antonio Stringari)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Antonio Stringari, Composer - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Sotto un verde e alto cipresso (Antonio Caprioli)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Antonio Caprioli, Composer - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Pan de miglio caldo (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Per dolor (Guido Morini)
Guido Morini, Composer, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
L'amor, donna, ch'io te porto (Je t'offre mon amour, Madame) (Jacopo Fogliano)
Jacopo Fogliano, Composer - Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Su, su leva, alza le ciglia (Bartolomeo Tromboncino)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Composer - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Madonna mia pieta (Orlande de Lassus)
Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Starabella ben cusi (Anonymous)
Anonymous, Composer - Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Pavana e gagliarda "della traditora" (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Canto di Lantze pellegrine (Gugliemo Il Giuggiola)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist - Guglielmo il Giuggiola, Composer
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Per fuggir d'amor le punte (Marco Cara)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Marco Cara, Composer - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Per dolor me bagno el viso (Bartolomeo Tromboncino)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Composer - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Capra moza sonemus et cantemus (Paolo Scoto)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Paolo Scoto, Composer - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Saltarello e Piva (Joan Ambrosio Dalza)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist - Giovanni Ambrogio Dalza, Composer
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Io non compro piu speranza (Marco Cara)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Marco Cara, Composer - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Se m'è grato el tuo tornare (Filippo de Lurano)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Filippo de Lurano, Composer - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Ave Maria (Bartolomeo Tromboncino)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Composer - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Pavana e saltarello " della Milanese" (Pietro Paolo Borrono)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Pietro Paolo Borrono, Composer - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Vergene bella (Bartolomeo Tromboncino)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Composer - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Tu dormi (Marco Beasley)
Guido Morini, MainArtist - Bruce Dickey, MainArtist - Marco Beasley, Composer, MainArtist - Franco Pavan, MainArtist - Stefano Rocco, MainArtist - Fabio Accurso, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
Album review
The frottola is a genre of the early sixteenth century that gets just a brief mention in music history texts as a forerunner of the Italian madrigal; its tremendous popularity is conceded, and clearly visiting Netherlanders such as Josquin were compelled to try their hands at it. Josquin's El grillo, not included here, is the most famous instance (try YouTube for some delightful European high school choral versions), and those who have heard frottole at all tend to think of them as bouncy, homophonic, and humorous. Singer Marco Beasley, music director Guido Morini, and the Italian early music group Accordone set out to change this impression and stress the frottola's links with the emerging humanist movement. The frottola in this group's hands is simpler, less stylized, and more emotional than the Northern chansons that epitomized secular vocal art in the Italian noble and mercantile courts of the day. The result is a really lovely disc. Beasley's ingratiating tenor, the only voice heard, is ideally suited to the frottola's romantic lyrics, and Accordone slows down pieces like Marco Cara's Io non compro più speranza, track 19, and fills them out with a free, lute-based accompaniment of the sort heard on Jordi Savall's recordings of Renaissance secular repertory. The musicians make a convincing case that the top line, sung by Beasley, is really a melodic line. The booklet -- with notes and texts in Italian, French, Dutch, and English -- rejects the idea of the frottola as a folk-influenced, semi-popular form, but sample one of the most attractive pieces, Bartolomeo Tromboncino's Sù, sù leva, alza la ciglia (track 8), and hear its irresistible Dorian tune, which still suggests an origin outside the cultivated sphere. The program is interspersed with instrumental pieces (mostly dance pairs) and religious works in the same style -- these are sometimes called laude, although the performers avoid that term. The last work on the disc is also intriguing: Beasley contributes Tu dormi, a modern composition drawing on a frottola by Tromboncino. This is something different from the usual run of modern compositions that layer French neo-classic harmonies onto Renaissance models -- Beasley abstracts the gestures of Tromboncino's piece into a melancholy solo line. This disc, beautifully recorded, is both enjoyable in itself and productive of new directions in approaching secular Renaissance Italian repertory.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:08:51
- Main artists: Marco Beasley Guido Morini Stefano Rocco Franco Pavan Fabio Accurso Bruce Dickey
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Cypres
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2010 Cypres (P) 2010 Cypres
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