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21 November 2012

Jacopo da Bologna - Madrigali e Cacce


EAC | APE + CUE | Covers | 355 Mb

Date CD: May 21, 2009 | Arcana | 59:14


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Jacopo da Bologna is one of the earliest polyphonic composers about whom we sort of know something. We have his portrait in the form of a miniature, which reveals he was not a man of the cloth like the average fourteenth century musician, but a layman, and that suits the music Jacopo left us, almost none of which is sacred. We know of some of his professional engagements and it is postulated that he was teacher to Francesco Landini, the leading light of the Italian trecento. We can read a treatise Jacopo wrote on music and note that he was the only composer to set a Petrarch sonnet to music whilst Petrarch himself still lived. In spite of all this, it is difficult to appreciate what is important about Jacopo's music just by virtue of listening to it; it sounds primitive, and as it is most often anthologized it invariably suffers in the company of the music of his contemporaries, particularly Landini.

However, it is not time to write off Jacopo just yet, as La Reverdie appears to have found the key to assessing his great strengths as a figure in the trecento. Jacopo left about 40 works -- including keyboard intabulations that were like arrangements likely made by others -- and just about half of them are heard on Arcana's Jacopo da Bologna: Madrigali e Cacce. This project takes a varied approach to realizing Jacopo's limited contrapuntal resources -- which never exceed three voices -- through judicious use of instruments and sometimes adding fifths to the tenor or drones in places where Jacopo's original is a little naked. The fuller harmonic profile exposes several features not fully understood before in Jacopo's music; for example, the "under third" or "Landini cadence" makes an appearance in the madrigal In verde prato and many other aspects of the connectedness between Jacopo and Landini are made clear. Likewise, La Reverdie's dogged detective work manages to extract links to other musicians within his circle -- such as Magister Piero and Giovanni de Cascia -- by decoding the acrostics within his texts, which likewise lead outward to notable persons in the courts where he worked.

All of this informs La Reverdie's music-making, which is consummately professional, scrupulously rehearsed, and yet spirited and spontaneous. Arcana's recording is spacious, yet present, and the programming leads very sensibly from one performance to the next. Arcana's Jacopo da Bologna: Madrigali e Cacce is a superb exposition on a composer who has heretofore remained a mystery to most; Landini himself might have been envious of the quality of this recital.



tracklist:


1. In su' be' fiori, in sulla verde fronde, madrigal for 2 voices
2. Posando sopr'un acqua, in sonnio vidi, madrigal for 2 voices
3. Lo lume vostro dolce 'l mio singnore, madrigal for 2 voices
4. Un bel sparver çentil de penna biancha, madrigal for 2 voices
5. In verde prato a padilglon tenduti, madrigal for 2 voices
6. Quando vegio rinnovellar i fiori, madrigal for 2 voices
7. Vestissi la cornachia d'altrui penne, madrigal for 2 voices
8. O dolce apresso un bel perlaro fiume, madrigal for 2 voices
9. Io mi son un che per le frasch'andando, madrigal for 2 voices
10. Io mi son un che per le frasch'andando, madrigal for 2 voices
11. Per sparverare tolsi el mio sparvero, caccia in 2/3 voices
12. Ogelletto silvagio per stagione, canonic caccia madrigal for 3 voices
13. Sï chome al canto della bella Yguana, madrigal for 2/3 voices
14. Straccias'i panni 'n dosso, madrigal for 2 voices
15. Aquil' altera/Creatura gentil/Ucel de Dio, madrigal for 3 voices
16. Tanto soavemente, madrigal for 2 voices
17. Sotto l'imperio del possente prinçe, madrigal for 3 voices
18. Fenice fu' e vissi pura e morbida, madrigal for 2 voices
19. I' senti' zà como l'arco d'Amore, madrigal for 2/3 voices 

La Reverdie


I'm resurrecting here some of the works that "disappeared" from Avax or were "abandoned" from the original uploaders. There's not a real project behind it, I'm just cleaning up my HDs and following the tide. What I downloaded long ago is flowing back. All credits go to the first uploader. Enjoy...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Toutatis,
Thanks for this one, but, unfortunately, the file seems corrupted : downloaded two times, with an error with the cue file (impossibility to read or convert it).

Toutatis said...

I used the CUE with cue splitter: it works.
But when I try to use it with Foobar I get an error. I'm working on it.

Toutatis said...

1) copy and paste the text between the "=====" into a text editor
2) save the file as "bologna, jacopo da - madrigali e cacce - la reverdie.cue"
=====
REM GENRE Classical
REM DATE 2005
TITLE "Madrigali e Cacce"
PERFORMER "Jacopo da Bologna"
FILE "bologna, jacopo da - madrigali e cacce - la reverdie.ape" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "In su' be' fiori (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Posando sopra un'acqua (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 02:39:65
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Lo lume vostro (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 07:39:09
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Un bel sparver (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 11:44:29
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "In verde prato (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 14:55:47
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Quando vegg'io rinovellar (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 17:52:37
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Vestissi la cornachia (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 20:33:37
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "O dolce apress' un bel perlaro (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 22:59:03
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "I me son un"
INDEX 01 26:23:41
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "I' me son un (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 28:51:35
TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE "Per sparverare (caccia)"
INDEX 01 31:56:26
TRACK 12 AUDIO
TITLE "Uselleto selvaggio (caccia)"
INDEX 01 35:58:08
TRACK 13 AUDIO
TITLE "Si come al canto (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 38:41:52
TRACK 14 AUDIO
TITLE "Straccias'i panni 'n dosso (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 42:21:53
TRACK 15 AUDIO
TITLE "Aquila Altera - Creatura gentile - Uccel di Dio"
INDEX 01 45:36:51
TRACK 16 AUDIO
TITLE "Tanto soavemente (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 48:10:71
TRACK 17 AUDIO
TITLE "Sotto l'imperio (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 50:12:24
TRACK 18 AUDIO
TITLE "Fenice 'fu e vissi (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 53:51:15
TRACK 19 AUDIO
TITLE "I' sentì zà (madrigale)"
INDEX 01 56:15:73
=====

what was wrong?
I don't know, maybe a nonstandard character in the text.

Anonymous said...

It works fine now. Thank you for the "after-share service" Toutatis. Have a good day.

Toutatis said...

"after-share service"
eheheh!