Flûte Alors! - Scherzi forastieri (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Montréal-based ensemble Flûte Alors! takes a journey into the musical world of Renaissance Italy on its new album, Scherzi forastieri. The program features instrumental versions of canzonas (songs) from Giovanni Antonio Cangiasi’s collection of the same name, along with madrigals by Cipriano de Rore, Girolamo Dalla Casa and Nicolò Corradini, plus a detour to Germany with the Fantasy for 4-part organ by Samuel Scheidt on Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s madrigal, Io son ferito ahi lasso, arranged for a recorder quartet.

The invention of music printing at the dawn of the 16th century paved the way for the publication of vocal music scores, including chansons, motets, and madrigals, facilitating their performance on instruments. Publishers saw an opportunity and produced adaptations of vocal compositions for various ensembles and instruments, or consorts. As Flûte Alors! demonstrates on this recording, many of those ensembles consisted of instruments of different sizes that belonged to the same family.

TRACKLIST

1. Flûte Alors! - V. La Stella
2. Flûte Alors! - X. La Guerra
4. Flûte Alors! - XX. La Furugada
5. Flûte Alors! - VII. La Bussola
6. Flûte Alors! - IX. La Theorica
7. Flûte Alors! - II. La Consigliata
8. Flûte Alors! - Fantasy on Io son ferito ahi lasso, SWV 103 (after Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
9. Flûte Alors! - Diminutions on Ancor che co’l partire (after Cipriani de Rore)
10. Flûte Alors! - XII. La Bassa
11. Flûte Alors! - VII. La Bizzarra
12. Flûte Alors! - II. La Sartirana
13. Flûte Alors! - VI. La Sincopata
14. Flûte Alors! - I. La Pallavicina
15. Flûte Alors! - Diminutions on A la dolce ombra (after Cipriani de Rore)
16. Flûte Alors! - Diminutions on A la dolce ombra, Second Stanza, Non vide’l mondo (after Cipriani de Rore)
17. Flûte Alors! - XVIII. La Alessandrina
18. Flûte Alors! - XXI. La Pessa
19. Flûte Alors! - IV. La Marina



Thanks to the Original customer.