Early Sixteenth Century Venetian Lute Music
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Composer: Vincenzo CapirolaComposer: Joan Ambrosio Dalza
Composer: Francesco Spinacino
Composer: Hayne van Ghizeghem
Performer: Paul O'Dette
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
- Pavana alla venetiana
- Saltarello
- Piva
- Recercar primo
- De tous bien playne
- De tu biens plaene: De tu biens plaene - nel ton del primo recercar
- Padoana belissima
- Spagna seconda
- Recercar II:XIII: Recercar II:XIII - che sono mi solo. bello. che altri che mi on la
- O mia ciecha e dura sorte
- Che farala, che dirala
- Recercare
- Malor me bat
- Piva
- Laudato Dio
- Recercar
- Calata ala spagnola ditto terzetti
- Recercar quinto: Recercar quinto - belissimo
- Non ti spiaqua l'ascoltar - motetto bello
- La vilanela
- Recercare
- Adiu mes amours
- Recercare
- Tientalora, Balletto da ballare
- Et interra pax: Et interra pax - niun non la solum mi
- Qui tolis pechata mondi: Qui tolis pechata mondi - chosa belisima
- Tastar de corde - Recercar dietro
- Pavana alla ferrarese
- Saltarello
- Piva
Music reviews of Early Sixteenth Century Venetian Lute Music
Music Review: Apollo's Lyre come to life
Rating: 5 Stars
Five hundred years ago, a humble lute student by the name of Vidal recorded his master's compositions in a hand-drawn tablature book. Well aware of the ill-fate befalling musical masterpieces with the passage of time and generations, he decided to embellish the book's pages with fantastic hand-painted scenes - "so that even the unlearned man, seduced by its visual beauty, may preserve it and pass it on intact."
It is thanks to Vidal's foresight that today this precious manuscript survives, along with the sublime music it contains. And this CD is one of the absolute best performances of it I have heard.
Paul O'Dette chose three composers to represent early Northern Italian lute output: along with Vidal's master (Vincenzo Capirola, dated around 1517), there is the music from the two earliest surviving printed lute tablature books - Francesco Spinacino and Joanambrosio Dalza (1508).
This early lute music is extremely diverse and fascinating, and O'Dette does it full justice in both piece-selection and interpretation. Dalza is best known for his bold dances, which show a strong influence of when the lute was played with a plectrum rather than picked with the fingers. Spinacino stands out for his fiery ricercari, with alternating fast single-note runs and brief counterpointal meditations. But it is Capirola and his vast tapestry of colors that gets the lion's share in this CD (dances, ricercari, vocal pieces set for lute).
Words cannot describe how expressive and varied this music is. Listen to tracks 4 (Ricercare primo), 7 (Padoana bellissima) and 8 (Spagna seconda) to get a sense of the confidence and the maturity that this style had achieved by the early 16th Century.
The lute was rigtfully considered the most versatile musical medium, second only to the human voice - and O'Dette's performance of this incredible music makes you understand why.
Even among O'Dette's excellent CD lineup, this selection stands out as an extraordinary achievement. I could not recommend it more enthusiastically.
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