Lorenzo Il Magnifico: Trionfo Di Bacco, Carnival Songs

Lorenzo Il Magnifico: Trionfo Di Bacco, Carnival Songs

Lorenzo Il Magnifico: Trionfo Di Bacco, Carnival Songs
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Composer: Heinrich Isaac
Composer: Italian Anonymous
Composer: Anonymous
Composer: Joan Ambrosio Dalza
Composer: Josquin Desprez
Composer: Johannes Ghiselin
Composer: Alexander Demophon Venetus
Conductor: Denis Raisin-Dadre
Performer: Doulce Mémoire Ensemble
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-02-05
Music Label: Astree
Soundtracks:
  1. Palle, Palle, song for 3 voices
  2. Ben Venga Maggio
  3. Su l'herba fresca
  4. Era di Maggio
  5. Lo Mio Padre, carnival song
  6. In questo ballo
  7. Work(s): [Unspecified] Calata
  8. Trionfo di Bacco e Arianna: Quant' è bella giovinezza
  9. La Spagna, song for 5 parts (doubtful)
  10. La Spagna a 4
  11. Canto di Lanzi Sonatori di Rubechine
  12. Vilana Che Sa Tu Far?, carnival song
  13. Canto di Lanzi Sonatori di Rubechine
  14. Canto di Lanzi Allegri, carnival song
  15. Pan de miglio caldo, carnival song
  16. Scaramella va alla guerra, song for 4 parts
  17. Carro della Morte
  18. Volgi gli ochi, O madre pia, for vocal ensemble
  19. Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, carnival song
  20. Visin, Visin, carnival song
  21. Canto degli Spazzacamini, carnival song

Music reviews of Lorenzo Il Magnifico: Trionfo Di Bacco, Carnival Songs

Music Review: Best CD of Renaissance Music!
Rating: 5 Stars

This is by far the best CD of Italian Renaissance music that I've ever encountered, and I've listened to a LOT of them! Most performance ensembles take a reverential, almost religious approach to 15th-century music, whether the music is of a religious nature or not. The result is that so many performances are deadly dull. No wonder most people don't like the music of this period.

But this recording is different. The performances are lively and sometimes raucous and the rhythms irresistible. The songs make you want to get up and dance!

Most of the songs were written for performance during Carnival, although, despite the CD's title, only one is definitely by Lorenzo de' Medici. There's a booklet with the texts, in the original Italian, as well as French and English translations, and an excellent introduction to the music as well. The texts are full of hilariously gross double-ententres: no matter what the song pretends to be about-- it's really about sex.

The exception to this rule are the three songs from the era of the fanatical reforming monk Savonarola: these "Carnevale del Crocifisso" songs are as pious as the secular songs are ribald, and they form a nice contrast to the "carnal" Carnival ditties.

If you buy one disc of Renaissance music-- buy this one!

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