Recording

Sounds of Renaissance Florence

Short film

Inside, outside, and in the streets—hear the bellowing of sacred texts and the howling of carnival songs, the devotion of the faithful and the revelry of the drunk.

A stunning chant book in Stanford’s Special Collections anchors a short film connecting Cut Circle’s flexible vocal technique to the soundscape of fifteenth-century Italy.

Programme

  1. 1 Aspiciens a longe — Matins responsory
  2. 2 Conditor alme siderum — Vespers hymn and setting by Guillaume Du Fay
  3. 3 Jesù, Jesù, Jesù — lauda
  4. 4 Visin, visin, visin — carnival song
  5. 5 Tria sunt munera — Vespers antiphon and psalm
  6. 6 Miserere mei, deus — Josquin des Prez
  7. 7 Ben venga maggio / Ecco’l Messia / Che fai qui core — May Day song and associated laude
  8. 8 Da pacem domine — Lauds antiphon
  9. 9 Alla battaglia — Heinrich Isaac
  10. 10 Hodie nobis — Matins responsory
  11. 11 O admirabile commercium — Lauds antiphons and settings by Josquin
  12. 12 Canto dei sarti — Song of the Tailors
  13. 13 Scaramella va alla guerra — Josquin des Prez
Jonas BudrisTenor
Marc BusnelBass
Corrine ByrneSoprano Bradford GleimBaritone · Artistic Advisor
Clare McNamaraSoprano
Jesse RodinDirector