AMOURS AMOURS AMOURS

 

Lute Duos around 1500

 

Crawford Young, lut.

 

Lute duo repertoire before Petrucci (1507) has remained largely unidentified and unheard in modern performance. Although documented as the most often-heard form of lute music during the fifteenth century, what exactly might such a pair as the famed Pietrobono duo of the Este court of Quattrocento Ferrara have played? This program takes the duos of Spinacino as a point of departure and creates new arrangements of works by masters of late Gothic / early Renaissance music. Here is a long-forgotten, sweet-sounding world of lute music as enjoyed by Humanist courts during the period of the discovery of the New World.

                         

1          Ave Maria                      Marbrianus de Orto                    

2          Amours amours amours Jean Japart       

3          De tous bien plaine         / Roelkin Roellrin                       

4          La morra                       Heinrich Isaac   

5          Calata                           Joan Ambrosio Dalza     

6          Petits riens                    Giovanni Ambrogio        

7          Jay pris amours                         Francesco Spinacino                  

8          Fortuna desperata          Francesco Spinacino      

9          De tous bien plaine         Francesco Spinacino                  

10         La Bernardina                Francesco Spinacino      

11         Chui dicese                    Anonymous                  

12         Moro de doglia               Anonymous      

13         Aime sospiri                   Anonymous                  

14         Le serviteur                   Anonymous      

15         Tandernaken                 Erasmus Lapicida                      

16         Amours amours                         Hayne van Ghizeghem   

17         Scaramella                    Anonymous                  

18         De tous bien plaine         Alexander Agricola        

19         Scaramella                    Josquin Desprez                        

20         Tandernaken                 Josquin Desprez            

21         Fortuna desperata          Antoine Busnois                        

22         Fortuna desperata          Josquin Desprez            

23         Bassadanza                   Anonymous                  

24         Tandernaken                 Alexander Agricola        

25         Ogni cosa                      Anonymous                  

26         Duo                              Alexander Agricola        

27         E qui le dira                   Heinrich Isaac               

28         De tous bien plaine [Quodlibet]    Heinrich Isaac   

29         Juli amours                    Francesco Spinacino                  

30         Je ne fay                       Francesco Spinacino      

31         Adieu mes amours         Josquin Desprez

 

Harmonia Mundi HMC905253