La Morra – The Lion’s Ear (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

La Morra – The Lion’s Ear (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:33 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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In 1512, Giovanni di Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici (1475-1521) was the eldest surviving male member of the senior line of the celebrated Medici family of Florence, the eldest surviving son of the mythic Lorenzo “il Magnifico.” Giovanni had inherited his family’s refined interest in and zealous support of the arts: literature; painting, sculpture, and architecture; and music. But of all of these, Giovanni – perhaps due in part to his poor eyesight – favored music, for which his passion was legendary among contemporaries. The musical life of Leo’s court was unimaginably rich and vibrant, as innumerable eyewitness accounts confirm.

Our CD aims to bring that world acoustically to life, to revive the soundscape of the Leonine court and illustrate the range of practices typifying Leo’s own musical experiences. It is intended as a tribute to a rare and extraordinary patron of music (himself a composer and musician), who occupied that singular position at the very summit of the universal ecclesiastical hierarchy.

Tracklist:
01. La Morra – Lirum bililirum (03:13)
02. La Morra – (Rostibolli) Gioioso (02:11)
03. La Morra – Vivite felices (02:45)
04. Michal Gondko – Ricercar (Ness #4) (00:53)
05. Michal Gondko – De mon triste desplaisir (After Jean Richafort) (01:52)
06. Michal Gondko – Fantasia “De mon triste” (02:23)
07. La Morra, Giovanni Cantarini – Che farala, che dirala (02:30)
08. La Morra – Spem in alium (02:50)
09. Giovanni Cantarini, Michal Gondko – Se mai, per maraveglia (05:17)
10. La Morra – O vos omnes (02:31)
11. Corina Marti, Michal Gondko – Ecce video celos apertos (03:29)
12. La Morra – Jerusalem, convertere (01:17)
13. Corina Marti – Recercada (02:44)
14. Corina Marti – Lautre yor per un matin (After Anonymous) (04:15)
15. La Morra – Fortuna disperata (05:08)
16. La Morra, Giovanni Cantarini – Fortuna disperata / Sancte Petre (01:32)
17. La Morra – Quid retribuam tibi, Leo? (01:54)
18. La Morra – Cela sans plus (02:42)
19. La Morra – In omni tribulatione (01:31)
20. Michal Gondko – Ricercar (Ness #10) (01:38)
21. Corina Marti – O stella maris (After Anonymous) (04:34)
22. Corina Mart, David Hatcher, Ann Allen – Canon di papa Lione x a 3 voci (01:30)
23. La Morra – Salve, Regina (06:42)

Personnel:
Composers:
Canova da Milano, Francesco (1497-1543)
Cavazzoni, Marco Antonio (c.1485-1569)
Despres, Josquin (c.1440-1521)
Isaac, Heinrich (c.1450-1517)
Mantovano, Rossino (early 16th century)
Mouton, Jean (c.1459-1522)
Pesenti, Michele (c.1470-a.1524)
Piacenza, Domenico da (c.1400-c.1470)
Pisano, Bernardo (1490-1548)
Richafort, Jean (c.1480-c.1547)

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