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A Spagna in the Works by Alison Crum and Roy Marks Alison Crum and Roy Marks : A Spagna in the Works.
 Ethereal, enigmatic and exhilarating renaissance miniature masterpieces for viol and lute.

The sweetly modest, satisfying, and gentle sonority of domestic music-making in the renaissance quietly belies compositions of unsurpassed musical skill. Featuring music that may be enjoyed equally either as something pleasantly light in the background, or more attentively as something more serious and profound, this new album of music centered around the mid 16th century is performed on the viol (bowed like a violin or cello, but far more tender, placid, and humane) accompanied by the lute (plucked like a guitar, but more calm, courteous and modest) and, like a mesmeric, draws the listener into worlds that are almost unimaginable, and certainly almost forgotten.

Review quotes:
'This delightful album gives an insight into the special, ethereal world of serious music-making in the renaissance period. It is an intimate, sophisticated sound for the privileged, cultivated listener.'
The Viol

'Recordings of later viol music often try to cover or minimize the sound of the articulation of the bow, but this recording embraces it as an essential and beautiful component of the music...the variety of colors that Alison produces from all the viols is astonishing..'
Viola da Gamba Society of America News

'..a recording of sensitivity, clarity and warmth...the final track (Roy's Lullaby) creates a mood leaving us somewhere between a hypnotic trance and suspended in mid-air (making) the perfect conclusion to an imaginatively constructed programme, skilfully realised and expertly recorded.'
Thamesis

Songs:

1. Auxce bon youre (Anon)(Trent 87)
2. T'Andernaken (Tyling)
3. Falla con misuras (M Gulielmus)
4. Fiamma amorosa bella (Anon) (I-Vnm 1795-98)
5. Ricercar (Marco Dall'Aquila)
6. Vergine bella (Bartolomeo Tromboncino)
7. Non e tempo (Marchetto Cara)
8. Consort (Henry VIII)
9. Taunder naken (Henry VIII)
10. A dorio tenor (John Dunstable)
11. Madame d'amours (Anon)(GB-Lbl Add 31922)
12. Recercada ottava La Gamba (Diego Ortiz)
13. La cara cossa (Anon)(Wroclaw 352)
14. Recercada quarta La Gamba (Diego Ortiz)
15. Quinta La Spagna (Costanzo Festa)
16. Prima La Spagna (Costanzo Festa)
17. Quarta decima La Spagna (Costanzo Festa)
18. Recerchar quarto (Sylvestro di Ganassi)
19. In die tribulationis meae (Francesco Londaritis)
20. Alta (Francisco de la Torre)
21. Ancor che col partire I (Cipriano de Rore)
22. Recercada primera La Spagna (Diego Ortiz)
23. Recercada segunda O felici occhi miei (Diego Ortiz)
24. Quinta Pars Ruggiero (Diego Ortiz)
25. Ancor che col partire II (Giovanni Bassano)
26. Bassa Danza (Anon)(Perugia M36)
27. La Spagna I (Anon)(Perugia M36)
28. La Spagna II (Anon)(Perugia M36)
29. Ancor che col partire III (Riccardo Rognoni)
30. O felici occhi mei (Vincenzo Ruffo)
31. La Gamba in tenor (Vincenzo Ruffo)
32. Da bei rami scendea (Vincenzo Ruffo)
33. Ancor che col partire IV (Riccardo Rognoni)
34. Recercada tercera La Spagna (Diego Ortiz)
35. Recercada sesta Romanesca (Diego Ortiz)
36. Recercada tercera Passamezzo (Diego Ortiz)
37. A Spagna in the Works (Roy Marks)
38. Lullaby (Roy Marks)

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Release date: 03/06/2015
Alison Crum and Roy Marks lives in London England

Tagged as: Classical, Renaissance, Instrumental, Composer: Diego Ortiz, Composer: Francisco de la Torre, Composer: Riccardo Rognoni, Lute, Viola da Gamba

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