La Morte della Ragione

‘The senses reign, and reason is dead: from one errant desire another rises,’ wrote the 14th-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch in Il Canzoniere. Hot emotions gradually gained ascendancy over cold cerebral calculation in the Renaissance, challenging centuries of nit-picking theological and philosophical argument. Il Giardino Armonico’s programme leads the listener into a world of music from the early-1400s to the mid-1600s, a time when such popular songs as De tous bien plaine and echoes of sacred compositions found a new home in courtly music making and the sounds of battle were married to instrumental dances.

Anon Pavana La Morte della Ragione
Giorgio Mainerio Gagliarda
Christopher Tye In Nomine Crye
Hayne van Ghizeghem De tous biens plaine
Alexander Agricola Two versions of De tous bien plaine
Josquin Desprez De tous bien plaine
Alexander Agricola De tous bien plaine
John Dunstaple Puzzle Canon
Josquin Desprez La déploration de la mort de Johannes Ockeghem
Anon La Battaglia
Thomas Preston Uppon la mi re
Giorgio Mainerio Schiarazula Marazula, Ungarescha & Saltarello
Vincenzo Ruffo Dormendo un giorno
Giovanni Gabrieli Sonata XIII a otto voci
INTERVAL
Giovanni de Macque Seconde Stravaganze
Nicolas Gombert Chanson La rose
Gasparo Zanetti La Bella Pedrina
Tarquinio Merula Canzon La Pedrina
Dario Castello Sonata 14 a quattro
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana La Napoletana a otto
John Baldwine 4 Vocum
Gesualdo da Venosa Canzon Francese del Principe
Cristoforo Caresana Tarantella
Giovan Pietro del Buono Sonata VII Stravagante sull'Ave Maris Stella
Jacob van Eyck Fantasia and Echo
Samuel Scheidt Galliard Battaglia

Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini recorder, dulcian, conductor