Caimo, Giuseppe

Canzoni Villanesche: Neapolitan Love Songs of the 16th Century / Beasley, Kiehr, Cabré, Festa - Ensemble Daedalus

2 CD / Accent / 2012-05-02

Works: Anonymous, Italian: Madonna tu me fai lo scorucciato; Villanella ch'all'acqua vai; Madonna mia, la vostra alma bellezza; Boccuccia dolce chiú che canamielle; Voccuccia de no pierseco apreturo; B...
Performers: Beasley, Marco; Benet, Josep; Catapano, Luciano; Festa, Roberto; Kiehr, Maria Cristina [Soprano Vocal]; Marincola, Federico; Massa, Leonardo; Pitzl, Pierre; Sandilands, Hugh
Conductors: Festa, Roberto
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Daedalus

Beginning in the early decades of the sixteenth century, Naples made a distinct contribution to the Italian musical scene with a genre peculiarly its own,...continue...

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...

Primavera - Monteverdi, etc / Les Voix Humaines, et al

1 CD / ATMA / 2004-04-01

Works: Claude Le Jeune: Revecy venir du printans; Luzzasco Luzzaschi: O Primavera; Claudio Monteverdi: O Primavera, gioventú de l'anno, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 3), SV 68; Chiome d'oro, Canzone...
Performers: Bergeron, Sylvain; Brault, Oliver; Colpron, Francis; Dhavernas, Vincent; LeBlanc, Suzie [Soprano Vocals]; Maute, Matthias; Plouffe, Helene; Taylor, Daniel
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Ensemble: Les Voix Humaines

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...