Piffaro: The Renaissance Band - Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music from Renaissance Italy
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Artist: Piffaro: The Renaissance BandComposer: Heinrich Isaac
Composer: Francesco Bendusi
Composer: Giorgio Mainerio
Composer: Rossino Mantovano
Composer: Costanzo Festa
Composer: Joan Ambrosio Dalza
Composer: Fillippo Azzaiolo
Composer: Orazio Vecchi
Composer: Vincenzo Ruffo
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-11-14
Music Label: Archiv Produktion
Soundtracks:
- Piva
- Palle, Palle - Ne piu bella di queste - La mi la sol
- Recorders: Pass'e mezo ditto il Romano - Moschetta - Bandera
- La Parma - Un sonar de piva in fachinesco (Lirum bililirum)
- Regem archangelorum - Alma, che scarca dal corporeo velo
- Aldi, dolce ben mio - Bona via faccia barva (Venetiana) - Gentil madonna, del mio cor padrona
- Donna, quando pietosa - El travagliato - La gamba in basso e soprano - Amor e foco e ghiaccio
- Putta nera ballo furlano
- All'arm', all'arm' - Com'al primo apparir - Sonata 'La facca'
- Canzona 'Istrina' - Sonata 'La fontana' - Canzona 'Licori'
- la morte de la ragione (Pavane) - La traditora (Gagliarda) - Bel fiore - La rocha el fuso (Gagliarda) - El desperato (Saltarello) - La lavandara (Gagliarda)
Music reviews of Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music from Renaissance Italy
Music Review: Listen! Music in the Air! Let's Go to the Plaza!
Rating: 5 Stars
There are 30 selections of Renaissance instrumental music - some dances, some polyphonic fantasies, some incidental music for courty or urban celebrations. It would have been a common experience in the 15th C to hear in public places the instruments you can see "Piffaro" holding in the cover art. Piffaro means "piper", and most of their instruments are wind - the dounble reed shawms, the narrow-bore trombone, flutes and recorders. Wind players were tradesmen and guild members in the Renaissance, but they were not commonly unable to read music as some have claimed. In fact, many of the manuscripts of elegant vocal chansons that have survived were originally prepared for use by the "piffari" of Ferrara, Verona, etc. There was no wall of separation between vocal music composed by clerics and court favorites and instrumental music that functioned as lively entertainment.
That's what Piffaro brings to life for concerts and recordings. But it's fiendishly hard to make a satisfying concert of 30 short, brilliant, but similar instrumental fantasies, however often one changes horns. I adore this music but it's best in small doses, a piece or two at a time, overheard in a park or before a wedding. Fortunately, with a CD, that kind of listening is possible, and you don't even need to get married!
What makes Piffaro special is not only that they play all those exotic instruments, but that they play them well. If you're old enough to remember David Munrow, the New York Pro Musica, and other Renaissance Faire bands of the 50s and 60s, you may be skeptical that anyone could play a shawm or a crumhorn with finesse, but Piffaro does it. Load this CD on your iPod. It's perfect for outdoors.
Description of Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music from Renaissance Italy
Piffaro discs make this sedentary fool want to get up and dance. Renaissance dance music is a much-underrated source of general delight, anyway. You don't have to be the kind of specialist listener who loves medieval masses to get a kick out of this tasty, highly rhythmic music--the disco of an earlier era. The tunes are appealing, the sounds of the varied instruments consistently delightful. I rate discs of Renaissance dances not so much by their authenticity, a debatable matter anyway, but rather by their danceability. Piffaro discs rank consistently high in this respect, and they are realistically recorded. --Leslie GerberBaroque Dance Suites CDs
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