The perfect dancing is memory, tempo, style, how the body is held, the diversity of things and the sharing of space...". So begins one of the first dance treatises in history, written by the Italian dancing master Antonio Cornazzano in the 15th century. To go beyond the steps and figures he describes is to understand the symbolic role of this art, its aim to unite earthbound humanity with the kingdom of God. This recording echoes this universalist vision, following the thread of the first notated dances and exploring the songs or pieces that were sometimes also the source and inspiration of more refined compositions: Estampies and other forgotten dances of the Middle Ages; aristocratic basse-danses that were in vogue at the court of Burgundy; saltarelli of the bourgeoning Italian Renaissance; allemandes and heady branles danced at the revels of François I. On this recording, Into the Winds gleefully explores a great variety of spaces and aesthetics and reveal the timelessness of this art more than ever.
YB: https://youtu.be/PmkAiUIIhHQ
Works:
• Anonymus: La Tierche Estampie Roial & Danse
• Anonymus: Suite de ducties
• Anonymus: Retrove; La Manfredina & La Rotta
• Anonymus: Basse-Danse - Triste plaisirs
• Anonymus: Pavane "La Monina"
• Anonymus: Saltarello "La Comarina"
• Anonymus: Ballo Tentalora
• Anonymus: Saltarello "El Marchese di Saluzzo"
• Anonymus: Gallicum Sine Nomine
•Domenico da Piacenza: Bassadanze Zoglioxa
•Antonio Cornazzano: La Figlia di Guglielmino
•Antonio Cornazzano: Re di Spagna
•Giovanni Ambrosio: Ballo Francese chiamato Amoroso
•Giovanni Ambrosio: Ballo Francese chiamato Petit Rinense
•Giovanni Ambrosio: Voltate in Ca Rosina
•Francisco de la Torre: Danza Alta
•Heinrich Isaac: Gloria & Agnus Dei aus Missa "La Spagna"
•Gilles Binchois: Triste plaisirs•Hilaire Penet: Au joly boys
•Claudin de Sermisy: Au joly boys
•Vincenzo Ruffo: La Gamba in Basso e Soprano
•Diego Ortiz: Recercada Quarta
•Thoinot Arbeau: Basse-danse "Jouissance vous donneray"
•Pierre Attaingnant: Tourdion c'est grand plaisir
•Pierre Attaingnant: Basse-dfanse "La Brosse"
•Claude Gervaise: Pavane Passemaize, Passemezes d'Italie & Galliarde
•Claude Gervaise: Suite d'Allemandes
•Jean d'Estrees: Suite de Bransles de Champaigne
•Jean d'Estrees: Suite de Branles gay