Canzoni E Danze

Editorial Reviews
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Piffaro discs make this sedentary fool want to get up and dance. Renaissance dance music is a much-underrated source of general delight, anyway. You don't have to be the kind of specialist listener who loves medieval masses to get a kick out of this tasty, highly rhythmic music--the disco of an earlier era. The tunes are appealing, the sounds of the varied instruments consistently delightful. I rate discs of Renaissance dances not so much by their authenticity, a debatable matter anyway, but rather by their danceability. Piffaro discs rank consistently high in this respect, and they are realistically recorded. --Leslie Gerber

Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music from Renaissance Italy, Music, Joan Ambrosio Dalza, Heinrich Isaac, Francesco Bendusi, Giorgio Mainerio, Rossino Mantovano, Costanzo Festa, Anonymous, Fillippo Azzaiolo, Jacques Arcadelt, Vincenzo Ruffo, Orazio Vecchi, Lodovico Agostini, Giovanni Ferretti, Cesario Gussago, Aurelio Bonelli, Eric Anderson, Grant Gerreid, Adam Gilbert, Joan Kimball, Gwyn Roberts, Robert Wiemken, Thomas Zajac, Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, Baroque Individual Dance Movement for Orchestra, Chamber, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Keyboard, Medieval/Renaissance Organ Music, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Orchestral, Recorder Solo/Sonata, Renaissance Instrumental Music, Renaissance Polyphonic Song, Two Solo Voices (with or without Keyboard/Continuo), Vocal

Tarquinio Merula: Canzoni, Danze e Variazioni
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Tarquinio Merula: Canzoni, Danze e Variazioni

Manufacturer: Tactus Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
Classical | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0007ZEQ8U
Release Date: 2005-06-14

Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music from Renaissance Italy
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Triumphant!

Excellent Renaissance Faire. Buy it!

Definitely Worth the Listening

Superb musicianship on ancient instruments....

Piffaro Renaissance Band Superb

Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music from Renaissance Italy
Joan Ambrosio Dalza , Heinrich Isaac , Francesco Bendusi , Giorgio Mainerio , Rossino Mantovano , Costanzo Festa , Anonymous , Fillippo Azzaiolo , Jacques Arcadelt , Vincenzo Ruffo , Orazio Vecchi , Lodovico Agostini , Giovanni Ferretti , Cesario Gussago , Aurelio Bonelli , Eric Anderson , Grant Gerreid , Adam Gilbert , Joan Kimball , Gwyn Roberts , Robert Wiemken , Thomas Zajac , Piffaro , and The Renaissance Band
Manufacturer: Archiv Produktion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande
General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
Recorder | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music
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Release Date: 1995-11-14

Tracks:

Piva
Palle, Palle - Ne piu bella di queste - La mi la sol
Recorders: Pass'e mezo ditto il Romano - Moschetta - Bandera
La Parma - Un sonar de piva in fachinesco (Lirum bililirum)
Regem archangelorum - Alma, che scarca dal corporeo velo
Aldi, dolce ben mio - Bona via faccia barva (Venetiana) - Gentil madonna, del mio cor padrona
Donna, quando pietosa - El travagliato - La gamba in basso e soprano - Amor e foco e ghiaccio
Putta nera ballo furlano
All'arm', all'arm' - Com'al primo apparir - Sonata 'La facca'
Canzona 'Istrina' - Sonata 'La fontana' - Canzona 'Licori'
la morte de la ragione (Pavane) - La traditora (Gagliarda) - Bel fiore - La rocha el fuso (Gagliarda) - El desperato (Saltarello) - La lavandara (Gagliarda)

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Piffaro discs make this sedentary fool want to get up and dance. Renaissance dance music is a much-underrated source of general delight, anyway. You don't have to be the kind of specialist listener who loves medieval masses to get a kick out of this tasty, highly rhythmic music--the disco of an earlier era. The tunes are appealing, the sounds of the varied instruments consistently delightful. I rate discs of Renaissance dances not so much by their authenticity, a debatable matter anyway, but rather by their danceability. Piffaro discs rank consistently high in this respect, and they are realistically recorded. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

Triumphant!.......2006-12-01

This is truly one of the best albums of Renaissance music currntly available! Purely instrumental! Much of it appears to be music for a royal court event or the like, with much use of brass and wind instruments. There are also many selections for the festival setting, usually involving the bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy. Too many albums of ancient music "pad" the content with monotonous choral polyphonic selections, perhaps starting out with one or two really good instrumental pieces. However, they did not do that in this one!

Excellent Renaissance Faire. Buy it!.......2005-11-15

'Piffaro The Renaissance Band' is a Philadelphia group who has done several superior albums of Renaissance music for the label 'Archiv', late of Deutche Grammaphone, now part of Polygram. I was astonished when I heard from a student of one of the directors, Robert Wiemken, that the band is paid virtually nothing to make the record and have it distributed. While I would expect that from a minor label, it is surprising that an act should make it to Deutche Grammaphone and not be paid for their recording. I go into this minor digression because I am especially impressed by this recording and all their others as well.

I do take issue with it's being labelled a recording of 'wind' music, as there is ample representation from the family of string instruments, most famously the guitar and the hurdy gurdy.

Although I really enjoy 'old music', I'm not an expert on it, but I set out to distinguish this music from modern stuff, and the two I can find are the presence here of a lot of drone instruments such as the bagpipe and the hurdy gurdy and the absence of instruments such as the clarinet which give us that lushly woody tenor we hear in pieces such as 'Rapsody in Blue' or in some of Kurt Weill's German stage pieces. We also certainly miss the rich sounds of the piano, as the pianoforte has not been invented yet.

If you like old music, this band is a 'must hear'!

Definitely Worth the Listening.......2004-01-26

Simply lovely. Some whimsical, some more technically serious. In all, definitely worth the money and the time. One of my new favorites.

Superb musicianship on ancient instruments...........2001-10-03

I wish composers were still writing for hurdy-gurdy @ crumhorn...what a wonderful sound. I especially liked "La Parma". I do believe a modern tunesmith has taken that melody @ recently made a rather haunting popular song from it; a female vocalist, I think. If anyone out there can remember what the name of that modern tune is @ will post it here, it will save me some on-going mental annoyance. You won't go wrong in buying this album!

Piffaro Renaissance Band Superb.......2001-05-20

This CD has me dancing in the streets. I have played holes in the recording. The musicianship is extraordinary with excitement, love and a great warm sense of pleasure taken by everyone involved. Renaissance instruments are not generally known for subtlety or nuance, but these players work miracles. The percussion sections are also integral to the whole and thrilling, where appropriate. Piffaro, please keep your music coming.