EROS & SUBTILITAS: Early Renaissance music - Ensemble Tasto Solo (Hybrid SACD)

Ensemble Tasto Solo brings us back to the Europe of the XVIIth Century, at a time when Italy was the epicenter of a new style derived from the world of dance. This album revolves mainly around the work of composer Vincenzo Ruffo and his contemporaries. The instruments used in the present recording are typical of the Italian culture of the early Renaissance in chamber music: a small harpsichord without damper in the upper register, a simple harp, a viola da gamba and a lute.

EROS & SUBTILITAS
Early Renaissance music by Vincenzo Ruffo, Philippe Verdelot,
Jacques Arcadelt, Clement Janequin, Jhan Gero, Domenico Ferrabosco,
and anonymous pieces from the Manuscript of Castell’Arquato.

 1. La Gamba 3:32
V. Ruffo

2. Dormendo un giorno 2:33
Ph. Verdelot

3-4. Dormendo un giorno 5:10
V. Ruffo, Ph. Verdelot

5. Pavana in Sol 2:31
MS Castell’Arquato

6. Saltarello in Sol 2:41
MS Castell’Arquato

7. Quand’io penso al martire 2:07
V. Ruffo, J. Arcadelt

8. Madonna io v’amo 2:57
J. Gero

9. Ricercare in La 2:54
MS Castell’Arquato

10. Lieti felici spirti 3:32
V. Ruffo

11-12. Pavana & Saltarello in Re 3:17
MS Castell’Arquato

13. Gentil mia donna 2:57
V. Ruffo

14. Ricercare in Sol 1:49
MS Castell’Arquato

15. Io mi sono gioveneta 2:51
D. Ferrabosco, MS Castell’Arquato

16-17. O felici occhi miei 6:07
J. Arcadelt, V. Ruffo

18. La Disperata 1:28
V. Ruffo

19. Martin menoit 2:02
V. Ruffo, C. Janequin

20-21. Pavana & Saltarello in Ut 3:44
MS Castell’Arquato

22. El Cromato 1:38
V. Ruffo

23. Da bei rami scendea 4:10
V. Ruffo, J. Arcadelt



TASTO SOLO
Anne-Kathryn Olsen, soprano · Riccardo Pisani, baritone
Bertrand Cuiller, Renaissance harpsichord · Bérengère Sardin, Renaissance harp
Pau Marcos, viola bastarda · Bor Zuljan, Renaissance lute
Guillermo Pérez, organetto & direction

Recorded at the Château de Bournazel (France), November 2021.