Girolamo Frescobaldi – Canzoni (2004)

1. Vigesimaquarta a Due Bassi e Canto detta la Nobile
2. Ottava a Basso Solo detta l'ambitiosa
3. Prima a 4, Canto Alto Tenor Basse Sopra Rugier
4. Seconda a Canto Solo detta la Bernardinia
5. Undecima a Due Canti detta la Plettenberger
6. Prima a 2 Bassi
7. Trigesima Quinta detta l'Alessandrina
8. Seconda a 2, Canto e Basso
9. Terza a 2, Canto e Basso
10. Prima a Basso Solo (Sesta detta Laltera)
11. Quinta a 4, Canto Alto Tenor Basse
12. Decimasettima a Due Bassi detta la Diodata
13. Quarta a 4, Due Canti e Due Bassi
14. Prima a 2, Canto e Basso
15. Quintadecima a 2 Bassi detta la Lieuoratta
16. Settima a Basso Solo detta la Superba
17. Decimasesta a 2 Bassi detta la Samminiata
18. Seconda a 4, Due Canti e Due Bassi
19. Quinta a 3, Due Canti e Basso
20. Terza a Canto Solo detta la Donatina
21. Seconda a 4, Canto Alto Tenor Basse Sopra Romanesca

Bruno Cocset & Les Basses Réunies

Bruno Cocset, tenor de violon, basse de violon "a la Bastarda" & direction
Emmanuel Jacques, tenor & basse de violon
Emmanuel Balssa, basse de violon
Richard Myron, violone & contrebasse
William Dongois, cornets
Xavier Diaz-Latorre, theorbe
Christina Pluhar, harpe
Luca Guglielmi & Laurent Stewart, clavecin & claviorganum

This is by far the best intro to Frescobaldi's music I've encountered. Even by Renaissance/early Baroque standards his knotty, intricate compositions are not always the most approachable - though this has partly to do with the difficulties of interpretation. This recording really understands and fleshes out the music. I'm not an expert on Frescobaldi nor have the grammatical knowledge of music to explain exactly why I like this recording, but it's definitely superior to the recording of his Canzoni by Il Viaggio Musicale. I guess you could say it "swings." And the audio quality of the recording is outstanding as well. ---David I. Cahill, amazon.com

Featuring performances of nobility and sensitivity, works of elegance and expressivity, recordings of depth and clarity, and, last but not least, packaging of exemplary beauty, it is impossible to over-recommend this disc. Bruno Cocset -- the terrific young period cellist whose recording of Bach's Cello Suites was in the same league as Casals' and Fournier's -- leads his colleagues and friends of Les Basses Réunies in performances of strength, subtlety, and great dignity. Frescobaldi's Canzoni are landmark works in the emancipation of the instruments whose ease of counterpoint is matched by their grace of melodies. Alpha's recording is warm, rich, honest, real, and true, capturing Les Basses Réunies in an ideal acoustic environment. Alpha's packaging has interesting and informative notes wrapped in a superb if tiny reproduction of The Finding of Romulus and Remus by Faustulus by Pietro Berrittini, a work painted at about the same time that Frescobaldi composed his Canzoni. ---James Leonard, Rovi

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