Coranta


  • Recorded: 28th November 2019
  • Record Place: Domovina Studio
  • First Release: 2020
  • (P) 2020 SUPRAPHON a.s.
  • Genre: Chamber Music

Artists

  • music by: Anonymous
  • 10c lute in G: Jan Čižmář

Album

Jan Čižmář

Codex Jacobides / Praga circa 1600

Catalogue Number: SU 4278-2
Published: 12th June 2020
Genre: Chamber Music
Format: 1 CD
Compositions from a fragment of the lute tablature Codex Jacobides, one of the major Czech sources of lute and instrumental music performed in Prague c. 1600. Period dances, intabulations of songs, vocal polyphonic secular and sacred pieces, works by M. Praetorius, J. Regnart, J. Planson, J. Dowland, S. L. Jacobides, and other composers.

Jan Čižmář - lutes, orpharion, guitar, theorbo. Renaissance Flute Consort, Bohemian Lute Orchestra. Eliška Tesařová - voice, Magda Uhlířová - viola da gamba

The lute, undoubtedly the most popular instrument of European townsfolk and aristocrats in the 16th and 17th centuries, was widely played in Prague during the reign of Emperor Rudolf II. A manuscript of lute tablatures known as the Codex Jacobides was in all likelihood written by a musically gifted student of the Prague University in the early 17th century. It features notations of period dances, intabulations of songs, and vocal polyphonic secular and sacred pieces; miniatures of German, English, French, Italian, Polish and Spanish provenience. Extremely intriguing are the intabulations of vocal villanelle by Jacob Regnart, who served as Kapellmeister at Rudolf II's court in Prague. Originally set to German texts, these pieces had found their way from Prague Castle to the city beneath, where - furnished with Czech lyrics - they lived a life of their own. The Codex Jacobides also contains works by Michael Praetorius, John Dowland and Jean Planson. Jan Čižmář studied the lute in London and The Hague with true masters (J. Lindberg, N. North, J. Held, M. Fentross, C. Pluhar), and today he is a sought-after soloist and chamber musician, performing worldwide. On the album, eight string instruments of various sizes and tunings are heard in a number of combinations, occasionally accompanied by a flute or lute ensemble and voice. Affording a taste of the music performed in Prague under Rudolf II, the CD is a true delicacy for connoisseurs and all music lovers alike.

Lute music that during the reign of Rudolf II was played in Prague streets and taverns, as well as at the local university.
Stephan Laurentius Jacobides
1. Praeambulum 00:56
Anonymous
2. Imbric. Galliarda 01:07
Anonymous
3. Ich ging einmal spatziren. Allemanda 00:51
Anonymous
4. Paduana 01:07
Anonymous
5. Prenons garde mignon 01:03
Anonymous
6. Frisch auff mein liebes tochter 01:18
Anonymous
7. Passamezzo antico - Saltarello 02:28
Anonymous
8. Praeludium Salomon 00:36
Anonymous
9. Courante 01:13
Anonymous
10. 'Saltarella' 00:58
Anonymous
11. Die Soldaten sindt aller Ehren werdt 01:15
Anonymous
12. Galliarda 01:24
Anonymous
13. Tantz - Saltarella 01:03
Anonymous
14. Fantasia 02:11
Jacob Regnart
15. Coelestium 01:22
Jacob Regnart
16. Jesu tu nobis influas 02:11
Anonymous
17. Passamezzo moderno - Saltarello 03:39
Anonymous
18. Praeludium 01:02
Anonymous
19. Paduana Hispanica 01:02
Jacob Regnart
20. Jungrau euer Wankelmut 00:44
Jacob Regnart
21. Lib mich als ich dich 00:40
Jacob Regnart
22. Ohn' dich muß ich mich aller Freuden massen 01:18
Anonymous
23. Tantz 00:34
Anonymous
24. Tantz Herr von Teltz 00:24
Anonymous
25. Ungerischen Tantz 00:48
Anonymous
26. Sarabanda Maris 02:50
Michael Praetorius
27. Bransle simple 01:55
Michael Praetorius
28. Bransle gay 02:49
Anonymous
29. Entrée de Luth 00:54
Anonymous
30. Coranta 01:09
Anonymous
31. Orlandi 01:19
Anonymous
32. Coranta 01:13
Anonymous
33. Coranta 00:40
Anonymous
34. Coranta 00:28
Anonymous
35. Coranta 00:54
Anonymous
36. Praeludium 00:42
Anonymous
37. Je scai felici 00:41
Anonymous
38. La bergere 00:39
Anonymous
39. Hoscana 00:59
Anonymous
40. O Nachbar Roland 00:59
John Dowland
41. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home 01:22
Ennemond Gaultier
42. Sarabanda de Gautier 03:39
Stephan Laurentius Jacobides
43. Praeambulum 01:19
Jean Planson
44. La rousée du joly mois de may 04:20

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