Trionfo d’Amore e della Morte: Florentine Music for a Medici Procession

Listen to Alta Trinita beata


Dorian Recordings, 2003, 90312

Celebrating the “Golden Age of Florence”, and re-imagining the music of the moving tableaux (parades) so popular during the reign of Lorenzo the Magnificent. With The Concord Ensemble’s 5 male singers.


Contents

Entrata degli Sancte
  Alta Trinita beata – Anonymous, arr. Adam Gilbert

Entrata degli Amanti
  Ben venga maggio – Anonymous, added line, Gilbert
  Textless carmen– Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1517)
  Ecco’l Messia — Anonymous
  Dieu quel marriage/corps digne — Antoine Busnois (c.1430-1492)
  Vilana, che sa tu far – Anonymous

Lorenzo Innamorata
  Canto dei profumieri — Anonymous
  Cecus non judicat de coloribus– Alexander Agricola (c.1446-1506)
  Jay bien et aver—Agricola, si placet voice, Gilbert
  Trionfo di Bacco—Anonymous, recorder diminutions, Tom Zajac
  Or udite el buono horare– anonymous

Trionfo della Guerra
  Palle, palle — Isaac
  Alla caccia — Anonymous
  A la battaglia — Isaac
  Regnum meum — Anonymous (Isaac?)
  Par ung chies do cure — Isaac

Morte del Principe
  Quis dabit capiti meo aquam? — Isaac

Trionfo della Fede
  La giloxia — anonymous
  Allegro canto — anonymous
  Torna, torna — anonymous

Martyre e Exili
  Adieu Florens la yolye — Pietrequin (fl. late 15th c.)
  Carro della Morte — anonymous
  Patientia ognum me dice — anonymous

Trionfo d’Amore
  Che poss’io più se’l cielo — Jacques Arcadelt (c.1505-1568)
  Perche quel che mi trasse — Elzear Genet dit Carpentras (c.1470-1548)
  Nova belleza — Carpentras

Musica Divina
  Lodate fanciulletti — anonymous (added voice, Adam Gilbert)
  Media vita in morte — Francesco de Layolle (1492-c.1540)
  Textless carmen — Adam Gilbert (Tenor after Isaac)