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The Art of Melancholy / Festa, Daedalus Ensemble

2 CD / Accent / 2007-01-05

Works: John Dowland: Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Giovanni Maria Trabaci: Conzonanze stravaganti; Gagliarda quinta cromatica a 5 detta "La Trabacina"; Girolamo Frescobaldi: Il primo libro di capricci fatti s...
Performers: Cabre, Josep; Sandilands, Hugh
Conductors: Festa, Roberto
Ensemble: Daedalus Ensemble

Roberto Festa and his Ensemble Daedalus present a masterly expressive picture of melancholy in 16th and 17th century music....continue...

Saturn and Polyphony / Roberto Festa, Ensemble Daedalus

1 CD / Accent / 2000-04-15

Works: Anonymous: Cor mio volonturioso; Josquin Desprez: Plaine de dueil, song for 5 parts; Luys de Narváez: Cancion del emperador, for vihuela; Cipriano de Rore: O sonno, madrigal; Juan Blas de Cast...
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Ensemble: Ensemble Daedalus

"Roberto Festa has taken a unique but certainly not unwarranted approach to the music of the Renaissance and early baroque...The performances here are extremely well...continue...