Release Date: 12 January 1999
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099577823
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: DALL'AQUILA / da CREMA
Description
MARCO DALL I AQUILA / GIOVANNI MARIA DACREMALute MusicRicercars / Intabulations / Dances In 1536 the Venetian publisher Francesco Marcolini da Forliobserved: 'All wind and string instruments are sweet, because they retain thequality from the harmony that issues from the spheres while the heavens move.But the suavity of sound which is born of the lute when touched by the divinehands of Francesco Milanese, of Alberto da Mantua, and of Marco dall 'Aquila,robs the senses of those who hear it by making itself heard in the soul'. Marcoliniwas referring to three of the foremost lutenist composers of the Cinquecento,whose masterful contributions were to influence lute music in particular andinstrumental music in general for nearly a century. Francesco Canova da Milano*(1497-1543) waslutenist to Pope Leo X and other ecclesiastics in Rome.Alberto da Ripa, or Albert de Rippe (ca. 1500-1551), as he was known as a lutenistand valet de chambre to Francois I, so pleased his patron that he wasgranted estates in Bloise. Less is known about Marco dall' Aquila, whose entirecareer may have been spent in the Serenissma Republica. Apparently bornin Aquila in the Abruzzi, then in the Kingdom of Naples, a 'ser Marco dall' Aquila,sonador de lauto' first appears on the membership roles of the wealthy Venetianreligious confraternity of San Rocco in the late fifteenth century. In March1505 he petitioned the Venetian Signori for the privilege of publishing lutemusic in tablature: 'Humbly the petitioner and servant of your graces, Marco dall'Aquila of Venice has, with the greatest of his ability and at no modestpersonal expense, learned how to print lute tablature, and is able to arrangecertain songs for the lute with the greatest ability and art, which will renderthem useful to many, including various gentlemen who delight themselves byplaying that most noble of all instruments, the lute.' He also appears to havemoved in important musical circles in Venice, since in 1524 Giovanni Spataromentions him in a letter to Marco Antonio Cavazzoni as a musician to whomadvice was sought on the acoustics of the 'excessive octave', calling him 'aman of high intelligence', but Spataro snidely adds that he thought little ofseeking 'the light of understanding from a mere instrumentalist [uno pulsatore de instrumento]', perhaps notunderstanding how apt would be a lute with its movable frets for experiments inmusical acoustics. Surely having attained his majority by the late fifteenthcentury, Marco was probably born around 1470 and thus belongs chronologicallywith the generation of lutenists prior to Francesco and Alberto, that is withthose lutenists associated with the Venetian music publisher Ottaviano Petrucci,the so-called 'Gutenberg of music'. Between the years 1507 and 1510 he issuedfour books of lute music by Francesco spinacino, Joan Ambrosio Dalsa and theCount of Verucchio Gian Maria Allemani. Marcolini takes pains to point out,however, that his triumvirate of the 'Milanese', th
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Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
