Music from the 15th and 16th century. This episode is dedicated to Cipriano de Rore, who was born in Flanders, but who spent the greater part of his working life in Ferrara.
De Rore became known especially because of his madrigals, but he also composed religious music.
We hear motets to both spiritual and worldly texts, and some madrigals from the first book that Rore published (in 1542).
Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565)
1. Laudem dicite Deo a 5
2. Ave regina coelorum a 7
3. Justus es Domine a 5
4. Miserere nostri Deus a 4
5. Pater noster a 5
6. O fortuna potens a 5
7. Mirabar solito laetas a 6
8. O qui populos suscipis a 5
Weser-Renaissance Bremen conducted by Manfred Cordes
(CD: “Sacred and Secular Motets from the Munich Codex” – CPO 999 506-2, 1997)
9. Hor che ’l ciel
10. Solea lontana
11. Tu piangi
12. Da quei bei lumi
Blue Heron conducted by Scott Metcalfe
(CD: “I madrigali a cinque voci” – Blue Heron BHCD 1009, 2019)
Supplement:
Marco dall’Aquila (ca 1480-after 1538)
13. La Cara Cossa
Lukas Henning, lute
(CD: “Bella incognita – The imagination of Marco dall’Aquila” – Glossa GCD 923518, 2019)
