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Danse et Chanson - Grand Désir - ensemble

Danse et Chanson - Grand Désir - ensemble
ID: ACDHJ043-2
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices

The basse danse is a stately courtly dance who’s origin can be traced to Burgundy. It was enthusiastically taken up at numerous courts throughout Europe and flourished for a century long from the middle of the 15th century onwards. That courtly dance existed before this is clear: for example, a description of the basse danse can be found as early as ca. 1320, in a poem by the Toulousain priest, friar and troubadour Raimon de Cornet. No information however concerning its choreography can be found until the early 15th century.
The Brussels (Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique, Ms 9085, ca.1470) and Toulouze (L’art et instruction de bien danser , ca. 1496, by Michel Toulouze) manuscripts are the two most important musical sources of the French basse dance; although both manuscripts are dated to the late 15th century, stylistically their music resembles the earlier decades of the century. These manuscripts, along with a few additional sources, contain around fifty cantus firmi , varying in length between twenty-four and sixty-two notes, notated in slow semibreves without rhythmical variation. It is assumed that the cantus firmi of these basse danses notated in long semibreves provided a monophonic basis for polyphonic instrumental improvisation. Evidence for such a practice can be found in some polyphonic examples written out on the tenor-melody Re di Spagna.
Regarding performance-tempo, Daniel Heartz points towards the relation between the music and the actual choreography in his study concerning the basse danse: according to Heartz, each semi-breve of the basse danse-melody corresponds to one figure in the dance. Each figure consisted out of four movements equal in length, while the musical accompaniment took up six beats. Thus, the dancers moved fluidly on their toes in a three-to-two proportion to the music.


Grand Désir - Ensemble for Late Medieval and Contemporary Music

The mezzo-soprano Anne Marieke Evers and the blockflute player Anita Orme Della Marta met at the beginning of their musical studies at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam in September 1997. They formed a duo shortly after, specializing in both contemporary music as well as medieval and renaissance music. Later in their careers, their paths led them to pursue further studies in medieval music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland, where they met the other ensemble members of Grand Désir. It was here that a common interest in the late-medieval music brought the group together in December 2004. Aside a few fixed members, Grand Désir likes to work with different musicians for each individual programme, thus creating the flexibility to obtain the perfect instrumentation for each project. Grand Désir performed their premiere in the ‘Fringe’ programme of the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2005. The ensemble has given numerous performances since in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Australia.
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Michael Nyman - Mozart 252

Michael Nyman - Mozart 252
ID: MNRCD113
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices

This album was designed to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart in 2006, but it seemed more appropriate to miss the boat, by two years - hence the 252. It could equally have been Mozart 30, since it is 30 years since In Re Don Giovanni originally saw the light of day in 1977 in the very first Campiello Band concert, in the National Theatre foyer. The Campiello Band was born out of the onstage band used for my arrangements of 18th century gondoliers’ songs for Bill Bryden's production of Goldoni's ‘Il Campiell’, which opened the Olivier Theatre in October 1976 and was thus the father of the current Michael Nyman Band.

Two main bodies of Mozart-derived works are presented on Mozart 252; the soundtrack to Peter Greenaway's ‘Drowning by Numbers’ (1988), and songs and duets from ‘Letters. Riddles and Writs’, a TV film developed in 1991 with the director Jeremy Newson as part of BBC2's Not Mozart series, which marked the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death.

My “Mozart music” is best understood by reading Pwyll ap Sion's impressive analyses in his book The Music of Michael Nyman:Texts, Contexts and Intertexts (Ashgate, 2007). But, briefly the first Nyman/Mozart collaboration, In Re Don Giovanni effectively samples and remixes the first 16 bars the Catalogue Song from ‘Don Giovanni’, and Revising the Don (a Radio 3 commission for the 250th anniversary) is a lyrical and literal revisiting of In Re.

The ‘Drowning by Numbers’ score is derived, in accordance with Greenaway's strict instructions, entirely from the slow movement of the ‘Sinfonia Concertante’ for violin and viola: Trysting Fields simply 'lists', in order of occurrence and each repeated three times, all the “unprepared” dissonances, (appoggiaturas) from the Mozart piece, and at the end introduces the 8-chord E flat/C minor/A flat/B flat/C min/E flat/A flat/B flat 'rock 'n' roll' sequence which ends the exposition of the movement, and which, along with a kind of retrograde version, is heard throughout Sheep 'n' Tides, Wheelbarrow Walk, Fish Beach and Not Knowing the Ropes (so called because on the ‘Drowning’ soundtrack album it is erroneously called Knowing the Ropes!).

Wedding Tango is built out of a chord-by-chord alternation of both the minor key version (from the very end of the movement) and more familiar major key versions of the 8-chord sequence. Knowing the Ropes, like Trysting Fields is a musical list (though with more conscious structural organization) - this time of a wiggly semiquaver motif, which is threaded through the movement and ends with a grand statement of the theme that is accompanied by the 8-chord sequence in the Mozart original.

‘Letters, Riddles and Writs’ deals in general, through texts taken from Mozart’s letters and riddles (the writs have to do with my frequent theft of Mozart's music) with his relationship with his father (O my dear Papa, a remake of O Isis und Osiris from The Magic Flute), with his own mortality (I am an Unusual Thing, which uses the texts from one of the riddles that Mozart wrote and distributed in Vienna during the 1787 Carnival and is based entirely on extract from two of his Haydn quartets) and with his business acumen [Profit and Loss, modeled on In Re Don Giovanni)
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La Tavola Cromatica - Chromatic & enharmonic music for viol of the time of Cardinal Francesco Barberini (Rome, c.1635)

La Tavola Cromatica - Chromatic & enharmonic music for viol of the time of Cardinal Francesco Barberini (Rome, c.1635)
ID: RK2302
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Voices

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Illusions - Igor Volodin Group

 Illusions - Igor Volodin Group
ID: CDMAN406-10
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano and Saxophone

Igor Volodin - piano
Alexey Kruglov - saxophone
Oleg Yudanov - drums
Nikolai Klishin- double bass
Anna Anfimova - voice
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Leise schwimmt der Mond durch mein Blut - Hamann - Zelle - Rank

Leise schwimmt der Mond durch mein Blut - Hamann - Zelle - Rank
ID: RK2202
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

Lieder nach Texten von Else Lasker-Schüler
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Alexander Khochinsky - Kontsert v Zooparke ("Concert at the ZOO")

Alexander Khochinsky - Kontsert v Zooparke ("Concert at the ZOO")
ID: CDMAN363-09
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Bard`s Songs
Subcollection: Voices

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NELLA ANFUSO - CANZONI NELL’ AERE DI VENEZIA - (Anonimi del XVIII sec.)

NELLA ANFUSO - CANZONI NELL’ AERE DI VENEZIA - (Anonimi del XVIII sec.)
ID: LYB9901
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices

Region Code: PAL. Plays in all territories
Sound Format: Dolby Digital
Duration: 68 minutes

1. Introduzione
2. Chi no ga la borsa grossa
3. Do parolete al zorno
4. Sento che’l cuor me manca
5. Mi credeva d’essar sola
6. Quei oci me fa guerra
7. Sto resto de vita
8. Puttello una volta
9. Nina, no so che farve
10. Me brilla el cuor
11. Far della el cuor
12. Premi via, premi, o stali
13. Una puta manierosa
14. Disema pur balordo
15. Za che semo qua a sta tola
16. Credits
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NELLA ANFUSO - TOSCANA MEDICEA - MUSICHE IN VILLA

NELLA ANFUSO - TOSCANA MEDICEA  - MUSICHE IN VILLA
ID: LYB9902
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Vocal Collection

This is a DVD-Audio disc which is playable on most DVD players as well as all DVD-Audio players. Click here for additional information regarding compatibility.

Region Code: PAL. Plays in all territories
Sound Format: Dolby Digital
Duration: 80 minutes

1. Iesu corona virginum (Francesca Caccini 1618)
2. Ben venga Maggio (Anonimo XV secolo)
3. O dolce nocte (Filippo Verdelotto 1537)
4. Bacco, Bacco euoè (Francesco Corteccia 1539)
5. Miseri habitator del cieco Averno (Giovanni De' Bardi 1589)
6. Bona roba habian brigata (Anonimo XV secolo)
7. Quant'è bella giovinezza (Anonimo XV secolo)
8. Quanto sia lieto il giorno (Filippo Verdelotto 1537)
9. Chi da' lacci d'amor (Jacopo Peri "Dafne" MS. XVII secolo)
10. Io che dal Ciel cader (Giulio Caccini, IV Intermedio per la "Pellegrina" 1589)
11. Non si vede giamai luce si chiara (Cosimo Bottegari, II metà del XVI secolo)
12. Io che d'alti sospir (Jacopo Peri "Euridice" 1600)
13. Mirate in sul mattin (Piero Benedetti 1617)
14. Dormi Amor (Marco da Gagliano "La Flora" 1628)
15.Se ridete gioiose (Giulio Caccini "Nuove Musiche" 1614)
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NELLA ANFUSO - Claudio Monteverdi - Poiesis

NELLA ANFUSO - Claudio Monteverdi - Poiesis
ID: LYB9903
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Baroque

This is a DVD-Audio disc which is playable on most DVD players as well as all DVD-Audio players. Click here for additional information regarding compatibility.

Region Code: PAL. Plays in all territories
Sound Format: Dolby Digital
Duration: 76 minutes


1. Messaggera (Orfeo)
2. Speranza (Orfeo)
3. Proserpina ( Orfeo)
4. Lettera Amorosa I (Se i languidi miei sguardi)
5. Penelope (Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria)
6. Lettera Amorosa II (Se pur destina)
7. Arianna
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NELLA ANFUSO - NELLA ANFUSO -Francesco Petrarca: Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse

NELLA ANFUSO - NELLA ANFUSO -Francesco Petrarca: Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse
ID: LYB9905
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices

Region Code: PAL. Plays in all territories
Sound Format: Dolby Digital
Duration: 70 minutes


1. Che debbo far, che me consegli amore (Canzone 268)
2. Tutto'l dì piango, e poi la notte quando (Sonetto 216)
3. In qual parte del Ciel, in qual idea (Sonetto 159)
4. Quest'humil fera un cor di tigre o d'orsa (Sonetto 152)
5. Io vò piangendo i miei passati tempi (Sonetto 365)
6. O Tempo, ò Ciel volubil che fuggendo (Sonetto 355)
7. Io vidi in terra angelici costumi (Sonetto 156)
8. Solo e pensoso i più deserti campi (Sonetto 305)
9. Lasso ch'i ardo et altri non mel crede (Sonetto 203)
10. Qunto più m'avvicino al giorno estremo (Sonetto 32)
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