CD: Il Cembalo di Partenope: A Renaissance Harpsichord Tale by Catalina Vicens
Il Cembalo di Partenope: A Renaissance Harpsichord Tale, performed by Catalina Vicens
First-ever full recording of an almost 500-year-old instrument masterpiece. Experience the haunting beauty of the National Music Museum's 'Neapolitan' harpsichord, ca. 1530 -- the world's oldest playable harpsichord and one of the most significant historic keyboard instruments in existence -- as expertly played by international historic-keyboard artist and scholar Catalina Vicens. Renaissance Neapolitan works from 16th-century composers like Antonio Valente, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, and Marco Antonio Cavazzoni come alive in Vicens' masterful interpretations and on this finely-preserved period instrument.
The CD comes with a free audiobook download of an imaginative story written and narrated by Ms. Vicens herself and accompanied with original music from the CD.
About the harpsichord: Unsigned/maker unknown, Neapolitan school, ca. 1530. Inner/outer case. Single manual, C/E-c3 (4 octaves), 1 × 8'. Purchase funds from the William Selz Estate, Mr. & Mrs. Clifford E. Graese Fund, and Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Rawlins Fund, 2009. Permanent collection of the National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota (NMM 14408) .
Carpe Diem Records 2017 Duration 66'33''
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Track List
- Valente: Fantasia del primo tono
- Capriola: La villanella
- Valente: Gagliarda napolitana
- Cabezon: Obra sobre cantus firmus
- Tromboncino: Amor quando fioriva...
- Ranier: Me lassera tu mo
- Dalza: Calata ala spagnola
- Tromboncino: Poi che volse...
- Dalza: Pavana alla ferrarese
- Fogliano: Ricerchare
- Cara: Cantai mentre nel core
- Cara: Per dolor mi bagno el viso
- Tromboncino: Stavasi amor
- Tromboncino: Che farala che dirala
- Cavazzoni: Recercada di ma ca...
- Cavazzoni/Desprez: Plus ne regres
- Veggio: Vi' (Villano) recercada
- Cavazzoni: Madame vous aves...
- Veggio: Recercada per b quadro...
- de Sermisy/Veggio: Tant que vivray
- Dentice: Volta de spagna
- Monte/Valente: Sortemplus disminuita
- Willaert/Valente: Chi la dirra
- Valente: Recercata del primo tono
