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Columns Musica Oscura
tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 alto vocals Mary Nichols
tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 bass vocals Alan Ewing
design [cover] Terpstra & Terpstra
directed by, lute Anthony Rooley
edited by Robert Menzies
engineer Paul Dery
engineer Thomas Gallia
ensemble The Consort Of Musicke
lyrics by [poetry] Francesco Petrarca
lyrics by [poetry] Giovanni Battista Guarini
lyrics by [poetry] Jacopo Sannazaro
lyrics by [poetry] Luigi Tansillo
photography by [cover] Hanya Chlala
producer Klaus L. Neumann
set designer [costume design] Terence Emery
tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 soprano vocals Emma Kirkby
tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 soprano vocals Evelyn Tubb
supervised by [supervision of texts and tanslations] Avril Bardoni
supervised by [supervision of texts and tanslations] John Whenham
tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 tenor vocals Andrew King
tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 tenor vocals Rufus Müller
Total Time: 63:15.
Recorded: Forde Abbey, Dorset, 5 March 1987; 26-28 February 1988.
Edition: Luca Marenzio: The Secular Works, ed. S. Ledbetter & P. Myers (Broude Bros, New York, 1977-); Liquide perle, ed. Francis Steel.
Illustrations: Portrait of Marenzio: By permission of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Title page to Il Primo Libro de Madrigali (1580): by Courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster; Map of Rome & Portrait of Tansillo: By permission of the British Library.
A Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln recording.
© Columns Musica Oscura 1993.
Columns Musica Oscura is an equal partnership between Columns and Anthony Rooley
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