Erasmus - Praise of Folly (6=3 SACD)

AVSA9895

La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI, Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall

Alia Vox (Spain)

anon.: Music: Folias (Imperfectas) [Harp]
anon.: Narration I (1): "By Her Mere Presence, Folly Dissipates the Cares of her Audience"
Henry du Bailly: La Folia: "Yo Soy La Locura"
Ortiz, D: Narration III (2): "On How Folly Is Prompted to Sing her Own Praises" / Music: Passamezzo Antico
anon.: Narration VII (3): Folly’s Origins
Ortiz, D: Recercada Quarta sobre la Folia
anon.: Narration VIII (4): "Her Birthplace, Her Infancy" / Music: Folias de la costa (Harp)
anon.: Narration IX (5): "Her Followers" / Music: Folias de la costa (Cont.)
Ruffo, V: La Gamba in Basso, e Soprano
Mudarra: Narration X (6): "Folly’s Claims to be Admitted to the Council of the Goddesses / Music: Romanesca
anon.: Folía: "Rodrigo Martinez" (From the Villancico of C. M. Palacio No. 12)
anon.: Narration XI (7): "On How She Perpetuates the Human Race" / Music (Cont.): Folía: "Rodrigo Martinez" (From the Villancico of C. M. Palacio No. 12)
anon.: Narration XII (8): "On How She is the Source of Happiness in Life" / Music (Cont.): Folía: "Rodrigo Martinez" (From the Villancico of C. M. Palacio No. 12)
Juan del Enzina: Si habrá en este baldrés (C. M. Palacio No. 179)
anon.: Narration XIII (9): "Of the Connection Between Folly and Childhood and the Second Childhood of Old Age" / Music: Las Vacas (Improvisation Harp)
anon.: Diferencias Sobre Las Vacas (Anonymous Improvisation) [C. M. Medinaceli]
anon.: Narration XIV (10): "On How She Prolongs Infancy and Halts Old Age" / Music: Folías antiguas (C. M. Palacio No. 121)
Hume, T: Narration XVI (11): "Of Folly’s Pre-Eminence in the World" / Music: Harke, harke (Gamba Viol)
Woodcock, C: Browning my dear
Arbeau: Narration XIX (12): "Folly Is Necessary to Friendship" / Music: Belle qui tiens ma vie (Harp Improvisation)
Arbeau: Narration XX (13): "There Is No Lasting Marriage Without the Complicity of Folly" / Music (Cont.): Belle qui tiens ma vie (Harp Improvisation)
Juan del Enzina: Juan del Enzina. Cucú, cucú, cucucú! (C. M. Palacio No. 94)
anon.: Narration XXI (14): "Folly Is the Blessing of Human Society" / Music: Paduana del re (Mss Venezia)
Mateo Flecha: Todos los buenos soldados (La Guerra)
Janequin: Narration XXIII (15): "She Inspires Warfare" / Music: Pavana La Battaglia
anon.: Narration XXV (16): "Of the Inferiority of Wisdom in all of Life’s Circumstances" / Music: Vederlo (Improvisation)
anon.: Narration XXVIII (17): "She Is the Mother of the Arts" / Music: My Lady Carey’s Dompe / Danse Tune English Tradition (Harp)
anon.: Saltarello (Mss. Venezia)
anon.: Narration XXIX (18): "She Claims the Credit for True Wisdom" / Music: Las Vacas (Harp Improvisation)
Cabezón, A: Narration XXX (19): "On Folly as a Guide Towards Wisdom" / Music: Pavana con su Glosa
anon.: Narration XXXII (20): "Of the Relationship Between Folly and Ignorance" / Music: Desperada (Elizabethan)
anon.: La Spagna (XVth Century)
anon.: Narration LV (21): "Folly of Kings" / Music: Las Vacas (Romanesca)
anon.: Narration LVII – LIX (22): "Folly of Bishops, Cardinals and Supreme Pontiffs" / Music: Estas noches a tan largas (Instrumental - C. M. Calabria No. 26)
Cornago: Narration LXVI (23): "Relationship Between the Christian Religion and Folly" / Music: Patres nostri peccaverunt (C. M. Montecassino No. 2)
anon.: Narration LXVII (24): "Folly is the Sovereign Good" / Music: Dios te salve, Cruz preciosa (Instrumental C. M. Palacio No. 434)
Cabezón, A: Diferencias Sobre ‘Las Vacas’ (Harp)
anon.: Narration LXVIII (25): "Farewell to the Reader" / Music: Folias Portuguesas (Harp)
Juan del Enzina: Villancico (Égloga 6): Hoy comamos y bevamos (C. M. Palacio No. 174)
anon.: Makam “Muhayyer pesrev” (Ottoman War March) [15th Century]
anon.: Narration 1: "Letter by Erasmus. The War Against the Turks" / Music: Taksim (Improvisation Santur)
Despres: Saltarello: Une musque de Buscaye (Instrumental)
anon.: A Florence la joyose cité (C. M. Montecassino No. 6)
Despres: Narration 2, Adage 145: "Fortune Smiles on the Bold" / Music: Fortuna desperata
Dufay: Audi, benigne Conditor (C. M. Montecassino No. 40)
anon.: Taskim & Dance (Ottoman)
anon.: Narration 3: "Erasmus of Rotterdam and the Jews" / Music: Las estrellas de los cielos (Sephardic)
anon.: Lavava y suspirava (Anonymous Sephardic)
Jean d’Ockeghem: Malor me bat (Odhecaton, No. 63)
Claude de Sermisy: Benedic anima mea (Ps. 103, 1-3)
Johannes Vincenet: Narration 4: "Epitaph for the Peerless Musician Johannes Ockeghem" / Music: Fortune par ta cruaulté
Despres: La déploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem
Antoine Bruhier: “Latura tu” (Instrumental) [Odhecaton No. 94]
anon.: Narration 5: "Panegyric to Philip the Fair" (1504) / Music: Adieu mes amours (Improvisation Harp)
anon.: Hélas madame, passamezzo (Henry VIII mss.10)
Ghizeghem: Narration 6, Adage 3415: "Love Makes Men Musicians" / Music: De tous biens plaine (C. M. Montecassino No. 85)
Despres: In te Domine speravi
Damianus: Narration 7: "Enchiridion. The Importance of the Classics" / Music: Ave maris stella (C. M. Montecassino No. 76) [Harp]
anon.: Puzzle-Canon II (Henry VIII mss.)
Despres: Scaramella va alla guerra
anon.: Narration 8, Adage 3001: "War Is Sweet to Those Who Have Not Experienced It" / Music: Fanfares & Tambours Vexilla Regis (C. M. Montecassino No. 106)
Torre, F: Basse Danse – Danza alta
anon.: Narration 9: "Erasmus of Rotterdam to his Dear Friend Thomas More on the Publication of Praise of Folly"
anon.: Home Again, Market Is Done (Margaret Board Lute Book)
anon.: Paduana del Re (Mss. Venezia)
Gesualdo: Narration 10: "Machiavelli’s The Prince" / Music: Gallarda di Venosa (Harp)
Despres: La Spagna a 5
Cabezón, A: Narration 11: "Erasmus. Education of the Christian Prince" (1516) / Music: imno XVI (Instrumental)
Dimitri Cantemir: Music: Taksim & Makam «Rast Murass’a» (mss. Cantemir No. 214)
Lloyd, John: Narration 12: "Thomas More’s Utopia: On Justice and Social Prosperity" / Music: Puzzle-canon I
anon.: Adoramus te Domine (Montecassino mss. No. 4)
Despres: Narration 13: "Erasmus. The Complaint of Peace" / Music: Mille regrets (Viols)
anon.: Balad: Ya es Tiempo de Recoger
anon.: Narration 14: "Letter from Martin Luther to Erasmus (28th March 1519)" / Music: Psalm: A solis ortus cardine (Organ)
Isaac: Benedictus (a 3)
anon.: Narration 15: "Letter from Erasmus of Rotterdam to Martin Luther (30th May 1519)" / Music: In Nomine a 5
Caurroy: Vingtcinquiesme Fantasie. Sur: Le Seigneur dès qu'on nous offense
Hassler, H L: Narration 16: "Letter from Martin Luther to Erasmus (15 April 1524)" / Music: Psalm: Christ ist Erstanden (Organ)
Tye: Narration 17: "Erasmus of Rotterdam to Luther - On Free Will" (1524) / Music: In Nomine a 5 Free from All
anon.: Pavane “La Bataille” (Anonymous Published by Jacques Moderne in “Music de Joie” Lyon, ca. 1540)
anon.: Narration 18: "Letter from Erasmus of Rotterdam to King Francis I of France" (16th June 1526) / Music: Pavane 14 (Anonymous Published by Jacques Moderne in “Music de Joie” Lyon, ca. 1540)
Mehmet bin Süleyman: Gazel (Ottoman Song)
Despres: Tu Pauperum Refugium
Luther: Narration 19: "Martin Luther to Erasmus, The Bondage of the Will" / Music: Psalm: Christ lag in Todes (Published by Martin Luther in 1533)
Isaac: Christ ist Erstanden à 6
Dowland: Narration 20, Adage 2100: "Words Are the Physicians of Ailing Souls" / Music: Now o Now
Tye: In Nomine a 5 My Death
Morales, C: Pie Jesu (from Requiem)
anon.: Narration 21: "Erasmus Dies at Basel" (Stefan Zweig, 1934)
Appenzeller: Plangite Pierides (Lament on the Death of Erasmus)
Trabaci: Narration 22: "Erasmus’s Spiritual Legacy" (Stefan Zweig) / Music: Durezze e ligature (Instrumental)

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