succession of releases devoted to Italian Renaissance music. The poem behind this albums title refers to happiness and cruelty, harmony and discord, contrasts evoked by Egüezs programme which focuses on music by five leading Italian lutenists from the first half of the sixteenth century, Francesco Canova da Milano, Alberto da Ripa, Pietro Paolo Borrono, Giovanni Paolo Paladino and Perino Fiorentino. The work and lives of these composers were all mixed up in the Italian Wars (1494-1559) which will have overshadowed their compositional activities as much as their playing at those various courts embroiled in the conflict. Egüez elegantly explores this bellicose time with virtuosic fantasias and sprightly dances, but also with diminutions on vocal intabulations.
Works:
•Francesco Canova: Ricercar 2; Fantasias 21, 28, 38
•Jacques Arcadelt: O felici occhi miei
• Jacques Arcadelt: Madrigal "O felici occhi miei"
•Alberto da Ripa: Pavane "La Romanesque"
• Alberto da Ripa: Gaillarde "L'Amirale"
• Alberto da Ripa: Fantasie sixiesme
• Vincenzo Ruffo: Alcun non puo saper
• Vincenzo Ruffo: Madrigal "Alcum non puo saper"
• Giovanni Paolo Paladino: 2 Pavane
• Giovanni Paolo Paladino: Gillarde
• Giovanni Paolo Paladino: Fantasia
• Pietro Paolo Borrono: Pavana detta La Lacrimosa
• Pietro Paolo Borrono: Saltarello primo
• Rogier Pathie: D'amour me plains
• Rogier Pathie: Madrigal "D'amour me plains"