Ex Libris Doctoris Amerbachii

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Date CD: 2006 | Musiques Suisses | 56:08

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This release introduces some of the most fascinating music from the music books that once belonged to the lawyer Bonifacius Amerbach (1495-1562), who lived in Basle during the first half of the sixteenth century.

Friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam, painted by Hans Holbein The Younger, Amerbach received thorough education which included instruction in music. He was also a passionate amateur musician on wind, plucked and keyboard instruments. Music books he collected are nowadays kept in the University Library in Basle.

The release is primarily devoted to the music of little-known composers active during the first half of the sixteenth century in the Alsace and Baden-Württemberg regions (chiefly Hans Buchner, Wolfgang Dachstein, Sixt Dietrich, Mathias Greiter, Johannes Fuchswild, Hans Kotter and Paul Wüst).

LA MORRA consists here of two contrasting groups: the 'alta' (a wind band with straight cornetto, bombard, slide trumpet and trombone) and the 'bassa' (lute, flutes, clavicytherium and Grossgeige (bass viol), joined by a female voice). All instruments used in performance were in common usage in South Germany and North Switzerland, and were described by Sebastian Virdung in his Musica getutscht - the earliest printed treatise on musical instruments, published in Basle in 1511.

tracklist:

Ich stond an einem morgen by Johannes Fuchswild

Grosmechtig by Ludwig Senfl

Tucto il mundo e fantasia by Jo. Hesdimois

Di pensier In pensier by Anon. / Harmonia In sol by Hans Kotter

Adiu mes amors by Anon, nach Josquin Desprez

Spaniol. Kochensperg by Hans Kotter

S'i'l dissi mai by Bartolomeo Tromboncino

Ellend pringt pin by Benedictus Ducis

Nit lang by nacht by Hans Buchner

Ich hof es sy by Georg Brack

Amy souffrez by Anon, nach Moulu

Au boys de soul en lombre dung by Anon, after Sermisy

Prooemium in re by Hans Kotter

Tandernack uf dem rin lag by Paul Hofhaimer

In mynem sinn by Mathias Greiter

Hor zu von nuwen sachen by Paul Wust

Ach elselin by Wolfgang Dachstein

Dentelore by Sixt Dietrich

Praeludium by Anon.

Mons seul plasier by Ninot Le Petit

In mynem sinn by Josquin Desprez

Vergine bella by Bartolomeo Tromboncino

Patris sapienta by Ruprecht Unterholtzer

Ich stond an einem morgen by Johann Schlend

La Morra

Corina Marti, flute, clavicytherium

Michal Gondko, lute

Elizabeth Rumsey, viola da gamba

William Dongois, cornett

Felix Stricker, slide trumpet

Dani Pelagatti, pommer

Keal Couper, trombone

with Arianna Savall, voice