Michał Gondko – Polonica (Renaissance Lute, ca 1600) (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Michał Gondko – Polonica (Renaissance Lute, ca 1600) (2015)
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In addition to the works attributed to the lutenists active at the Royal Polish court in the late sixteenth century, there is a substantial repertoire of compositions identified as ‘Polish dances’ or ‘Polish songs’ which have been preserved in numerous sources of late Renaissance lute music. Characterized by an irresistible melodic charm and a straightforward harmonic and rhythmical texture, such musical polonica spread across Europe, achieving what might have been the widest distribution of musical ‘Polishness’ before Chopin. Four hundred years later, Polish lutenist Michal Gondko sets out to trace polonica in lute tablatures from around 1600, and presents a selection of forty compositions, many of which have not been previously recorded.

Tracklist:
01. Michał Gondko – Chorea eiusdem nationis (01:36)
02. Michał Gondko – Chorea polonica I (00:58)
03. Michał Gondko – Chorea polonica eiusdem authoris (00:45)
04. Michał Gondko – Cantio polonica (01:17)
05. Michał Gondko – Polnischer Tantz I (01:10)
06. Michał Gondko – Polnischer Tantz II (02:00)
07. Michał Gondko – Polnischer Tantz III (01:15)
08. Michał Gondko – Polnischer Tantz IV (01:39)
09. Michał Gondko – Polnischer Tantz V (02:32)
10. Michał Gondko – Villanella AD (02:48)
11. Michał Gondko – Villanella polonica (01:39)
12. Michał Gondko – Finale Alberti Dlugorai (00:56)
13. Michał Gondko – Chorea polonica II (01:01)
14. Michał Gondko – Chorea polonica III (02:22)
15. Michał Gondko – Chorea polonica IV (02:37)
16. Michał Gondko – Fantasia AD (01:58)
17. Michał Gondko – Polskey tanecz welmy pekney (02:40)
18. Michał Gondko – Polnisch Tantz (01:18)
19. Michał Gondko – Ein Pol[n]ischer Tantz (Bathori) (03:24)
20. Michał Gondko – Praeludium Diomedis (01:45)
21. Michał Gondko – Galliarda di Diomede (01:33)
22. Michał Gondko – Danza (02:45)
23. Michał Gondko – Caspari Poloni Gagliarda (01:47)
24. Michał Gondko – Fantasia Alberti Dlugorai Poloni (02:03)
25. Michał Gondko – A Pollish Vilanell (01:48)
26. Michał Gondko – A Polish Ayre (00:58)
27. Michał Gondko – Ballo Polaco (01:25)
28. Michał Gondko – Chorea polonica Mowi na mie sasiada (01:04)
29. Michał Gondko – Ein polnischer Tantz (Zuzanneczko) (01:36)
30. Michał Gondko – Chançon a la Polonnoise Susannesco (01:36)
31. Michał Gondko – Autre Taned Spolski (00:52)
32. Michał Gondko – Balletto Polacho I (02:50)
33. Michał Gondko – Balletto Polacho II (01:12)
34. Michał Gondko – Balletto Polacho III (02:05)
35. Michał Gondko – Balletto Polacho IV (02:02)
36. Michał Gondko – Balletto Polacho V (01:53)
37. Michał Gondko – Allemande (Bathori) (01:15)
38. Michał Gondko – Taned Spolski (02:10)
39. Michał Gondko – Galliarda eiusdem authoris (01:39)
40. Michał Gondko – Fantasia Iacobi Reys (02:15)

Personnel:
Michal Gondko (renaissance lute)

Composers:
Cato, Diomedes (c.1560-c.1618)
Dlugoraj, Wojciech (Albertus) (1557-c.1619)

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