Dufay: Voyage en Italie Ens. La Reverdie Contents: Dufay: Supremum est mortalibus bonum (isorhythmic motet; 4 voices, 2 vielles, lute, harp, bells) Prepositus Brixiensis: O spirito gentil (ballata; voice, cornet, lute) Bartholomeus de Bononia: Morir desio (ballata; voice, vielle, lute, percussion) Bertrandus Ferraguti: Excelsa civitas Vincencia (motet; cornet, 2 vielles) Dufay: Quel fronte signorille in paradiso (canzona; voice, 2 vielles, lute) Dufay: C'est bien raison de devoir essaucier (ballata; voice, cornet, 2 vielles, 2 harps, lute) Anon., Italian: Belfiore (danse; lute, recorder, rebec, harp, cornet, vielle) Antonius de Civitate: O felix flos Florentia / Gaude felix Dominice (motet; 2 voices, cornet) Dufay: Vassilissa ergo gaude (isorhythmic motet; 2 voices, 2 vielles) Dufay: O Sancte Sebastiane / O Martyr Sebastiane (isorhythmic motet; 4 voices) Dufay: Exultet celum laudibus (hymn; 4 voices) Dufay: Mirandas parit (motet; 2 voices, vielle, lute) Dufay: O proles Hispanie / O sidus Hispanie (motet; voice, cornet, 2 vielles, lute, harp) Performers, Ens. La Reverdie: Claudia Caffagni (voice, lute), Livia Caffagni (voice, vielle, recorder), Elisabetta de' Mircovich (voice, rebec), Ella de' Mircovich (voice, harp, bells), Doron David Sherwin (voice, cornet, percussion), Claudia Pasetto (vielle), Matteo Zenatti (voice, harp) Recording: Arcana, June 2001 (Niederdorf) Playing time: 64' Sources: Modena, Bibl. Estense a.M.1.11 lat471 - tracks 1, 11-13; Oxford, Modl. Lib. MS Canonici Music. 213 - tracks 2-6, 10; Faenza, Biblioteca Comunale, Col. 117 - track 7; Bologne, Civico Museo Bibl. Mus., Q 15 olim 37 - tracks 8, 9 As per the title, this program is built around Dufay's travels in Italy, featuring pieces he wrote for or in Italy, together with some related works by contemporaries working in Italy. Todd M. McComb
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