Alla Napoletana: Villanesche & mascherate
This programme is structured around the figure of Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola (1510-1592), organist and later master of the church of the Annunciation in Naples. In addition to a number of madrigals and motets, he left us one of the richest and most typical collections of Canzoni Villanesche (1545). These Canzoni Villanesche (or Napolitane) were songs on popular themes, originally written for three voices in the Neapolitan dialect. The texts are characterised by their burlesque or erotic inspiration, usually containing metaphors, popular proverbs, malicious or saucy puns, distorted words and various types of comical or meaningless onomatopoeia.
The programme is enriched by a selection of varied instrumental pieces, featuring not only instruments that were fashionable during the Renaissance (recorders, post horns, reed instruments, violas, luths, guitars, percussions and bagpipes), but also typical Neapolitan instruments as colascioni, tammorri, tromba degli zingari.
Suonare e cantare/Jean Gaillard
Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola
1. Piva
2. O belle fusa
3. Tri cechi siamo
4. Madonna voi me fare una camisa
5. Pavana « la morte della ragione »
6. Madonna tu mi fai lo scorruciato
7. Schiarazula Marazula
8. Cingari simo
9. Moresca 4a detta « la bergamasca »
10. Chi la gagliarda
11. Ga gliarda « La lavandara »
12. O quant’amore t’ho portato
13. Calata alla spagnola
14. Le fave ch’o chiantate
15. Madonna non e piu lo tiemp’antico
16. Medici nui siamo
17. Piva
18. Saltarello de la preditta
19. Boccuccia d’uno persico aperturo
20. La paduana del rey