Baroque Extravagances: The Viol Consort in Italian Music

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Album Summary

Conductor

• Balestracci, Guido

Ensemble

• L'Amoroso

Composers

• Carlo Gesualdo (circa 1566 - 1613)
• Giovanni Maria Trabaci (Composer) (1575 - 1647)
• Giovanni Battista Buonamente (circa 1595 - 1642)
• Antonio Valente (circa 1540 - bef 1601)
• Giovanni Salvatore (circa 1600 - 1688)
• Bernardo Storace (circa 1630 - after 1665)
• Marco Antonio Ferro
• Francesco M. Bassani
• Gregorio Strozzi (1615 - after 1687)

Notes & Reviews:

Guido Balestracci is considered to be "one of the finest exponents of the viola da gamba" (Diapason, 2002). As a soloist and as director of his ensemble L'Amoroso, founded in 1997, he plays throughout Europe, the USA, South America and AsiaThis recording - previously available on the Symphonia label under the title "Consonanze Stravaganti" - presents Italian music for consort of viols. The program contains compositions written expressly for viols together with "arrangements" of compositions originally for other instruments, with the belief that the union of these two categories make up the "corpus" of works for viols of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Eremo di Ronzano (Italy) (08/1998).

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Works Details

Valente, Antonio : Tenore de Zefiro con duodeci mutanze, for harpsichord

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 5 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Ferro, Marco Antonio : Sonata 10, for 4 viols

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 5 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Gesualdo, Carlo : Gagliarda del Principe di Venosa, for keyboard, W. 10/22

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Salvatore, Giovanni : Canzone francese no 3 (del primo tuono finto)

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Bassani, Francesco M. : Tocata del Signor Oratio Bassani

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 2 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Trabaci, Giovanni M. : Partite sopra Fedele, for chamber ensemble

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 7 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Trabaci, Giovanni M. : Conzonanze Stravaganti, for keyboard or ensemble

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: circa 1600-1615

Storace, Bernardo : Ciaccona

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 7 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Strozzi, Gregorio : Gagliarda no 3 for viol consort

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 4 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Storace, Bernardo : Ballo alla Battaglia

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 4 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Trabaci, Giovanni M. : Canzona Francesa à 4 for viols (Book 2)

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1615

Buonamente, Giovanni Battista : Ballo de Gran Duca, for 3 viols, theorbo & harpsichord

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 7 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Trabaci, Giovanni M. : Durezze a legature, for keyboard or ensemble

• Conductor: Guido Balestracci
• Ensemble: L'Amoroso
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque