La fonte musica & Michele Pasotti - Metamorfosi Trecento (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Myth, Sallust tells us, is the relation of ‘things that never happened, but always are’. Ever since the fourteenth century, music has drunk deep from the source of myths. When composers were not dealing with sacred history, with the great morality tales of Christ, they turned to myth as to a great art and a matchless repertory of exemplary stories.

Metamorfosi Trecento is a musical exploration of myths and of the polyphony of the late Middle Ages. The ancient myths, foremost among them Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and their medieval transpositions are extremely present in the repertory of the Ars Nova: Narcissus lost on a fatal voyage, the stories of Daphne’s dream, Philomela, the myth of Orpheus, Callisto . . .

The lutenist Michele Pasotti and the singers and instrumentalists (fiddle, recorder, clavicymbalum, Gothic harp etc.) of the ensemble he founded in 2005, La Fonte Musica, bring these wondrous tales back to life with a beauty and artistry we wished to share with you.

Tracklist:
01. Sì dolce non sonò chol lir' Orfeo
02. Non più infelice
03. Fenice fu'
04. Tre Fontane
05. In nova fert / Garrit gallus / Neuma
06. Phyton, le mervilleus serpent
07. Calextone
08. Le suy navrés / Gnaff'a le guagnele Antonio
09. Par le grant senz d'Adriane
10. Sì com'al canto della bella yguana
11. Qual perseguita dal suo servo Danne
12. Strinçe la man (Instrumental)
13. Non al su' amante più Diana piacque
14. Già da rete d'amor
15. Sì chome al chanto della bella yguana

Composers:
Bologna, Jacopo da (fl.1340-86)
Caserta, Phillipot de (fl.1370-1420)
Firenze, Don Paolo da (1390-1425)
Landini, Francesco (c.1325-1397)
Machaut, Guillaume de (c.1300-77)
Padova, Bartolino da (fl.c.1365-1405)
Perugia, Matteo da (fl.1400-18)
Perugia, Niccolò da (fl.1355-75)
Piero, Magister (c.1300-50)
Solage (fl.1370-90)
Teramo, Antonio 'Zacara' da (1355-1416)
Vitry, Philippe de (1291-1361)
Zachara da Teramo, Antonio (c.1355-1413)

Personnel:
La fonte musica
Michele Pasotti, lute