Various Artists - Tempesta Di Passaggi - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A storm of passaggi to echo the virtuosity of the cornettists of Renaissance Italy who exalted their instrument, of which Andrea Inghisciano is one of the most sought-after contemporary exponents (listen, for example, to the album 'La Morte della Ragione' with Il Giardino Armonico). Here, along with the keyboard player Maria Gonzalez, he presents a programme bursting with diminutions, whether written or improvised from the acrobatics of Francesco Rognoni and Dario Castello to the sweetness of Luzzasco Luzzaschi and Giovanni Battista Bovicelli, by way of Girolamo Dalla Casa, who, while recommending performers to 'do few things, but do them well,' amazes us with his exuberant writing, with rapid cascades of notes as arduous to play as they are fascinating to listen to. This duo recital is the recording debut of the ensemble I Cavalieri del Cornetto, which aims to explore the art of diminution in all it's forms. Album Tracks 1. Vestiva i colli (after Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) 2. Sonata Prima 3. Sonata Prima a sopran solo 4. Ancor che col partire (after Cipriano de Rore) 5. Canzon Decimaottava (after Claudio Merulo) 6. Work(s)~Capriccio Fra Jacopino sopra l'Aria di Ruggiero / Ruggiero à un soprano 7. Canzon francese detta InchLe BergierInch 8. Ricercata per flauto, cornetto, violino, traversa e simili in Battaglia 9. Oncques amour (after Thomas Crecquillon) 10. Sonata Seconda a sopran solo 11. Rose (after Adrian Willaert) 12. Frais et gaillard (after Jacobus Clemens non Papa) 13. Aura soave 14. Sonata Quarta 15. Angelus ad pastores (after Cipriano de Rore) 16. Spiritillo Brando