Piffaro and Friends – A 30th Anniversary Celebration

Piffaro celebrates 30 years of delighting audiences with a retrospective spanning its three decades of performances. Artistic directors Joan Kimball and Robert Wiemken have curated their concert archives for this collection. A “Who’s Who” of early music friends make appearances: Capilla Flamenca, Blue Heron, The Rose Ensemble, Parthenia, King’s Noyse, Ellen Hargis, Drew Minter, and Maren Montalbano Brehm.

There is joy here for all, from the most dedicated followers to the newest fan.

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Contents

  1. Propiñan de Melyor – Anon early 16th c Spanish
  2. Ave Maris Stella Chant – Anon / Ave Regina Caelorum – Jacob Obrecht
  3. Credo from Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae – Josquin Desprez / Credo from Missa Wohlauf – Heinrich Isaac
  4. Christ is estanden Settings – Anon from Glogauer Liederbuch, Heinrich Isaac, Johann Walther
  5. Freundlich Begir/Der Rattenschwantz, – Anon from Glogauer Liederbuch
  6. Sette son L’arti Liberali – Text: Burchiello
  7. Gratioso/Leoncello – Anon ballo tunes, late 15th c Italian, arr. Piffaro
  8. Benedictus Domini – Ludwig Daser
  9. Credo from Missa Prima Domine Dominus Noster – Leonhard Lechner
  10. Paradetas – Anon 16th c. Spanish, arr. Tom Zajac
  11. Avejuela Que Al Jazmin – Manuel Machado
  12. Españoleta – Anon 16th c. Spanish, arr. Grant Herreid, Christa Patton
  13. Tururu Fararar Con Son – Gaspar Fernandes
  14. Venticillo Mormurador – Luis de Briceño, reconstructed Grant Herreid
  15. Espaõleta/Gaita – Anon 16th c. Spanish, arr. Piffaro
  16. Sara che Cessi – Alessandro Striggio
  17. Lasso, La Dolce Vista – Francesco de Layolle
  18. Pange Lingua – Francisco Guerrero
  19. Simile est regnum caelorum – Guerrero
  20. A Warning to All False Traitors – Anon ballad 16th c. England, set to Greensleeves, arr. Piffaro
  21. Consonanza Stravagante – Giovanni Maria Trabaci
  22. Gagliard del Principe de Venosa – Carlo Gesualdo
  23. Durezze et Ligature – Trabaci
  24. Suite of Dances – Gasparo Zanetti: Aria Del Gran Duca / La Sartorella / Il Gabanano / La Balloria / Salterello della Battaglia

Piffaro demonstrates its special rhythmic vivacity to sonorous effect in suites of German dances by Johannes Ghro, Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt, and Johann Schein. The textures are alternately silken and rustic, thanks to the combinations of bagpipes, recorders, shawms, sackbuts, dulcian, and tambourine. A collection of German songs receives such expressive treatment that one almost has to wonder if human voices could do better. – Early Music America Magazine

Contents

CHRIST IST ERSTANDEN
1 Setting à 3 – Anonymous, Glogauer Liederbuch (ca. 1480)
2 Setting à 4 – Heinrich Isaac (1450-1515)
3 Setting à 5 – Heinrich Finck (ca.1445 – 1527)
4 Setting à 5 – Stephen Mahu (ca.1490 – ca.1591)
5 Setting à 3 “auf Bergreihenweis” – Johann Walther (1527-1578)
6 Setting à 4 “ad aequales” – Johann Walther
7 Chorale à 4 – Michael Praetorius (1571 – 1621)
8 Chorale to BWV 276 – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

INNSBRUCK, ICH MUESS DICH LASSEN
9 Instrumental fantasy – Arr. Joan Kimball
10 Canon in tenor – Arr. Robert Wiemken
11 Insprugk ick muss dich lassen – Heinrich Isaac
12 Bruder Conrads Tantzmass & Nachtanz – pub. Paul & Bartholomeus Hessen

A SOLIS ORTUS/CHRISTUM WILL SOLLEN LOBEN SCHON
13 Latin Hymn: A solis ortus cardine – Coelius Sedulius (d. 450)
14 A solis ortus cardine – Anonymous (late 15th c.)
15 Motet: Christum wir sollen loben schon – Johann Walther
16 Hymnus: Christum wir sollen loben schon – Johann Walther
17 Chorale: A solis ortus – Michael Praetorius
18 Motet: A solis ortus – Michael Praetorius
19 Canzona: A solis ortus  – Samuel Scheidt (1587 – 1684)
20 Chorale: Christum wir sollen loben schon – Johann Sebastian Bach

A SUITE OF GERMAN DANCES
21 Intrada  Johann Ghro (1575 – 1627)
22 Passameze – Michael Praetorius
23 Allemande – Samuel Scheidt
24 La Volta – Michael Praetorius

THE WORLD OF CHROMATICISM
25 Musica, Dei donum optimi  – Orlande de Lassus (ca.1532 – 1594)
26 Carmina chromatico: Prologue – Orlande de Lassus
27 Mirabile mysterium – Jakob Handl (1550 – 1591)
28 Sybilla Samia – Orlande de Lassus
29 Da pacem, Domine – Melchior Franck (ca. 1579 – 1639)

A SONG FROM ANDERNACH ALONG THE RHINE
30 Melody  – Arr. Joan Kimball
31 Tanndernac – Antoine Brumel (ca. 1460 – 1512 or 1513)
32 Tandernaken op den Rijn  – Pierre Alamire (ca. 1470 – 1536)
33 T’ander naken – Jakob Obrecht (1450 – 1505)
34 Tandernack – Ludwig Senfl (ca.1486 – ca.1543)

SUITE OF GERMAN DANCES
35 Ballet des Aveugles  – Arr. Joan Kimball, after Michael Praetorius
36 Padouana – Johann Hermann Schein (1586 – 1630)
37 La Rosette – Michael Praetorius
38 Bransle Simple – Michael Praetorius