Tromboncino & Cara - Dialogo d’amore: Frottolas for Isabella d’Este
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95759
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 14th February 2020
Contents
Works
Amor che fai si altero?Gazollo
La Delfina
La moretta
Cangia sperar, mia voglia
Per dolor me bagno el viso
Tante volte si, si, si
Chiare, fresche e dolci aque
Fuga ognun Amor protervo
Un cavalier di Spagna
Amor! che vuoi?
Aqua, aqua; aiuto!
Che vol dir che cosi sete
Facto son per affanni ombra si oscura
Su, su, leva, alza le ciglia
Zephyro spira e'l bel tempo rimena
Occhi mei lassi, acompagnate il core
Artists
Giulia Valentini (soprano)Julie Roset (soprano)
Marcos Garcia Gutierrez (baritone)
Ensemble L’Amorosa Caccia
Conductor
Fabio Antonio FalconeWorks
Amor che fai si altero?Gazollo
La Delfina
La moretta
Cangia sperar, mia voglia
Per dolor me bagno el viso
Tante volte si, si, si
Chiare, fresche e dolci aque
Fuga ognun Amor protervo
Un cavalier di Spagna
Amor! che vuoi?
Aqua, aqua; aiuto!
Che vol dir che cosi sete
Facto son per affanni ombra si oscura
Su, su, leva, alza le ciglia
Zephyro spira e'l bel tempo rimena
Occhi mei lassi, acompagnate il core
Artists
Giulia Valentini (soprano)Julie Roset (soprano)
Marcos Garcia Gutierrez (baritone)
Ensemble L’Amorosa Caccia
Conductor
Fabio Antonio FalconeAbout
Although little is known about the composers, their music survives thanks to Ottaviano Petrucci, a prominent Venetian publisher who printed 11 anthologies of frottolas during his lifetime. The frottola emerged at the same time as Renaissance humanism, and the diversity of the genre explores the human experience, with encounters between the sublime and homespun realities and the mingling of classes and cultures. In the musical texts we find a curious melting pot of themes, ranging from popular chansons of love and nature, to proverbs and classical antiquity.
Tromboncino is probably the most famous composer of frottolas, and he wrote 176 in total. He led a life fraught with criminal activity and most infamously murdered his wife, Antonia, after accusing her of adultery. He was never convicted, however, because the acting regent of Mantua, Isabella d’Este (to whom his frottolas are dedicated), was his patron and very fond of him. As for his music, Su, su leva, alza le ciglia has an upbeat nature and features a clear harmonic progression in the accompaniment, foreshadowing what would later develop into Baroque era functional harmony. Meanwhile Zephyro spira e il bel tempo rimena, based on Petrarca’s poem about the Greek god of the west wind, is programmatic in its yearning melody and the ceaseless drive in its contrapuntal instrumental interludes.
This genre is often overlooked by early music researchers in favour of the era’s more sophisticated music, yet neither its historical, sociological or philosophical significance should be underestimated, as the frottola represents an encounter between high and low art forms in a space outside of the strict constraints of religion.
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