Reid Chamber Concert

Date: 
Thursday, January 22, 1976
Time: 
7.30 pm
Season/No: 
1975-1976

'O in Italia ..... '

Participant(s): 

Landini Consort

Richard Hill - countertenor
Nigel Robson - tenor
Elizabeth Liddle
Margaret McCaul
John Bryan
Peter Syrus - director

crumhorns, cornamusen, sorduns, rauschpfeife, shawm, dulcian, recorders, organetto, rebecs, viols, medieval fiddle, violin, lute, spinet, psaltery and percussion.

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

A programme of Italian songs, dances and chamber music from the 14th to the 17th century, including works by Landini, da Bologna, Josquin, Caccini, Gesualdo and Monteverdi.

The audience is encouraged to reserve any applause until the ends of sections.

Songs and dances from the fourteenth century

Jacopo da Bologna    'O in Italia felice Liguria' (madrigal a 2; 1346)
Andrea da Firenze    'Perche veder non posso' (ballata a 3)
Anon.                        'Trotto' (monophonic dance)
Jacopo da Bologna    'I' senti za' (madrigal a 3)
Anon.                        'La Manfredina' (monophonic stampie)
Francesco Landini     'Sy dolce non sono' (madrigal a 3)
Anon.                        'Salterella II' (monophonic estampie)
Francesco Landini     'In somm' alteca' (ballaa a 2)

Three anonymous thirteenthe century 'laudi spirituali'

'Spirito Sancto glorioso'
'A tutta gente' (ballata)
'Venite a laudare'

Music for a Florentin Carnival c.1500

Gulielmus               'La bassa castiglia' (instrumental dance a 2)
Johannes Brochus   'It caldi sospiri al freddo' (frottola a 4; 1504)
Fogliano                 'Tua volsi esser sempre mai' (instrumental)
D. Philippo             'Salve, sacrata e glorioso insegna' (lauda a 4; c.1500)
Scotus                    'O fallace speranza' (instrumental a 4)
Zesso                     'E quando andarete 'al monte'
Josquin                  'In te Domine speravi' (frottola a 4)
Josquin                  'El grillo' (frottola a $; 1504)

INTERVAL

Music for seventeenth century church and chamber

Ludovico Viadana    'Salve regina' ('Concerti ecclesiastici' of 1602)
Giovanni Taeggio    'La Mazza' (canzona a 4; Milan 1605)
Giulio Caccini          'Perfidissimo volto' ('Le Nuove Musiche' of 1601) 
Carlo Gesualdo       'Gagliarda de Principe di Venosa'
Claudio Montverdi   'Ninfa che scalza il piede' ('Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi'; publ. 1638)

Music for the marriage of Cosimo de Medici and Eleonora of Toledo in 1539

Moschini                  'Ecco, ecco signor il Tebro' (a 5)
Anon.                       'La Manfrolina' and 'La Traditora (a 4)      
Corteccia                 'Guardan almo pastore' (a 6)
Anon.                       'Zorzi' and 'La rocha el fuso' (a 4)
Corteccia                 'Bacco, bacco euoe' (a 4)

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Performance Type:

Programme: 
4-page pale blue folded
Programme Notes: 

Programme notes 

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Summerhall Press