Amsterdam-based Ensemble Corona in its performance in Rector's Palace, Dubrovnik, Croatia, september 2008. The program was: 'Se voi non ridete...', music from the circle of the Florentine politician-writer Niccolò Machiavelli.
La Spagna is a 3-part composition on the ancient basse dance cantus firmus 'Re di Spagna', by the 16th-Century composer Costanzo Festa.
Musicians:
Valeria Mignaco - soprano
Heleen Gerretsen - recorder
Israel Golani - lute
Margo Fontijne - viola da gamba
Ensemble Corona specializes in secular music from the late 15th and 16th century.
More info: http://www.ensemble-corona.nl/
a good start.
only another 124 variations to go
capekurtz 4 months ago