Cantata Violini: Florid Early Baroque Songs and Polyphony | Passacaille PAS1056

Cantata Violini: Florid Early Baroque Songs and Polyphony

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Label: Passacaille

Cat No: PAS1056

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 20th September 2019

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The most beautiful polyphonic canzoni, chansons, motets and madrigals, were used like today’s pop standards in the 16th century; musicians would improvise on them, tailoring their playing and imagination to each other.

The colourful and varied selection of works on this recording is made up of different combinations of voices and instruments. A special aspect, a kind of renaissance violin band stands at the centre of this project: ensembles of violins were generally used to accompany certain moments in the Mass, at banquets, receptions, princely entertainments, entries into cities and palaces, diplomatic negotiations and sacred and secular processions as well as the long hours of dancing that followed the evening meal.

This all took place in northern Italy from the 1530s onwards, until the 1580s and 1590s announced the arrival of the new baroque style. The word Sonadori, the name of the ensemble, is Venetian in origin; the Scuole Grandi or confraternities there employed full-time ensembles of singers and musicians. The confraternity of San Rocco was the first to replace the older instruments such as the fiddle, harp and lute with sonadori nuovi – new players – of the violin in 1531.

Les Sonadori:
- Béatrice Linon (treble violin)
- Odile Edouard (treble violin, small alto violin)
- Nicolas Sansarlat (alto violin)
- Alain Gervreau (tenor violin)
- Sarah Van Oudenhove (small bass violin)
- Hervé Douchy (bass violin)

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