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Release Date: 19 September 2025
Label: Avie
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 822252274622
Genres: Classical Rennaissance
Composer/Series: Passing Fancy
Description
Disruption and displacement wasn't uncommon in 16th-and 17th-centuries Europe. During the Reformation, creative individuals, including composers, were often forced to conceal their identities - for reasons social, religious, ethnic, racial or otherwise. Yet despite - or perhaps due to - the disorder, musical styles and forms flourished, earning the era it's Renaissance designation and thus creating "Beauty in a Moment of Chaos".
Sonnambula, an ensemble of New York City-based early music luminaries, bestow beauty on their AVIE debut, traversing an aural intersection of beliefs with northern and southern European styles. Here is the beauty of William Byrd and Richard Dering, two Catholics composing in Protestant England; of Leonora Duarte, a Portuguese-Jewish woman forced to live as a converso ("New Christian"), in Antwerp, and Parisian Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, whose lost works have re-emerged with a vengeance in our own time; of the Bolognese Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder who emigrated to England, and Salomone Rossi who unusually set Hebrew texts to Western-style polyphony from his relatively tolerant position in the court of Mantua.
The release of Passing Fancy: Beauty in a Moment of Chaos coincides with Sonnambula's taking up residency at New York City's newly-renovated premiere museum, The Frick Collection.
Tracklisting
Sonnambula
Christoph Croise; Daniel Schnyder
Bruce Wolosoff
Daniel-Ben Pienaar
Sean Jones, Nicholas Phan, London Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Young
National Philharmonic, Curtis Stewart, Michael Repper
Theatro
Susan Narucki, Curtis Macomber
Sonnambula
Theatro
Anna Danilevskaia; Sollazzo Ensemble
Dialogue Viols; Peter Wendland; Jacqui Robertson-Wade
Anna-Lena Elbert, Evangelina Mascardi, Angelique Mauillon, Friederike Heumann
The Royal Wind Music
Jonatan Alvarado; Ariel Abramovich
Henning Wiegrabe; Capricornus Ensemble Stuttgart
