Viadana: Solo Tenor Motets; Canale: Keyboard Canzonas Angelo Goffredi, Ensemble Il Narvalo & Federico Del Sordo

• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (1564 - 1627): Concerto à soprano over cornetto (Fratres ego enim):
• 1 Viadana: Concerto à soprano over cornetto (Fratres ego enim) 03:50
• Veni domine et noli tardare:
• 2 Viadana: Veni domine et noli tardare 03:42
• Floriano Canale (1541 - 1616): Canzon la ugona:
• 3 Canale: Canzon la ugona 02:09
• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana: O altitudo:
• 4 Viadana: O altitudo 03:26
• Floriano Canale: Canzon la averolda:
• 5 Canale: Canzon la averolda 02:44
• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana: Congratulamini:
• 6 Viadana: Congratulamini 03:23
• Canzon la bevilacqua:
• 7 Viadana: Canzon la bevilacqua 03:32
• Hunc preclarem:
• 8 Viadana: Hunc preclarem 02:44
• Veni sancte spiritus:
• 9 Viadana: Veni sancte spiritus 06:25
• Floriano Canale: Canzon la fenarola:
• 10 Canale: Canzon la fenarola 03:03
• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana: Dum complerentur:
• 11 Viadana: Dum complerentur 04:13
• Ego autem:
• 12 Viadana: Ego autem 03:13
• Concerto à soprano over cornetto (Accipite et manducate):
• 13 Viadana: Concerto à soprano over cornetto (Accipite et manducate) 02:47
• Memento salutis:
• 14 Viadana: Memento salutis 03:25
• Floriano Canale: Canzon la nuvolina:
• 15 Canale: Canzon la nuvolina 03:00
• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana: Salve corpus Iesu Christi:
• 16 Viadana: Salve corpus Iesu Christi 02:39
• Floriano Canale: Canzon la canobbia:
• 17 Canale: Canzon la canobbia 03:21
• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana: Quam dilecta tabernacula:
• 18 Viadana: Quam dilecta tabernacula 03:01
• Total Runtime 01:00:37

Info for Viadana: Solo Tenor Motets; Canale: Keyboard Canzonas

Lodovico da Viadana’s (1564–1627) life as a musician initially unfolded in Mantua, where he was appointed maestro di cappella of the Cathedral on 7 January 1594.

Upon the cessation of this position (likely in 1597), he moved to Venice (mainly to oversee the printing of his works), to Rome (where he claims to have conceived of the concept and function of basso continuo), to Padua, Cremona (where he held the position of maestro di cappella at the convent of S. Luca from 1602), Concordia (where he stayed until 1609), and finally to Fano, where he remained, still holding the position of maestro di cappella, until March 1612.

Later, he continued his compositional activity in his hometown of Viadana (part of the Duchy of Mantua) and its surroundings. He died in Gualtieri in 1627.

This album presents some of his Ecclesiastical Concertos. Among those of his Opus12 (1602, Venice) are a series of compositions (which he called Concertos) for the unusual forces of tenor and basso continuo. The stylus gravis adopted by the composer often alternates with more lively passages that emphasize the meaning and liturgical pathos of the text.

Complementing Viadana’s concertos are five of the 19 Canzoni da sonare a quattro & otto voci by his Brescian contemporary Floriano Canale (1541–1616) from Canale’s First Book of Keyboard Canzonas (Venice, 1600).

Finally, there is a motet by Viadana calling for performance on solo cornett with basso continuo.

Angelo Goffredi, tenor
Ensemble Il Narvalo
Federico Del Sordo, organ & conductor

No biography found.

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