¡SACABUCHE! 17th Century Italian Motets ¡Sacabuche! Ensemble Linda Pearse, artistic director ACD2 2712 • Early 17th century Italian motets are the focus of this debut ATMA Classique album by ¡Sacabuche! Ensemble directed by Linda Pearse.   The motets include specific parts for trombones and document the growing 17th century tendency towards naming particular instruments and composing idiomatic parts for them.   In addition to their inherent beauty, these works by lesser known composers were chosen because they are representative of different musical types. • 17th-Century Italian Motets represents the culmination of seventeen years of research, publication, performance, and pedagogy by trombone player Linda Pearse, and is a labour of love in aural format.   Since 1997, Pearse has been collecting seventeenth-century Italian sacred motets with dedicated trombone parts.   She pursued a doctoral dissertation at Indiana University, and a critical edition of this music was published by A-R Editions (2014). • Canadian Linda Pearse is recognized as a specialist in the exquisite musical repertoire of early seventeenth-century Italy.   Pearse is Assistant Professor at Mount Allison University and Lecturer on Baroque Trombone at Indiana University Bloomington.   Following studies at McGill University and the Schola Cantorum (Basel), her career in Europe included regular performances with the Stuttgart Philharmoniker, the Stuttgart Opera House, the Basel Symphony, La Cetra, piano possibile, and the Stuttgart Musical Theater.   Pearse is Artistic Director of the San Francisco Early Music Baroque Workshop, the Sackville Festival of Early Music, and the ensemble ¡Sacabuche! Singers: Eric Brenner, countertenor; Nicholas Tamagna, countertenor; Drew Minter, countertenor; Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Sumner Thompson, tenor; Peter Becker , bass Instrumentalists: Martha Perry, violin, viola; James Andrewes, violin; Matthew Jennejohn, cornetto, recorders; Catherine Motuz, sackbut; Christopher Canapa, sackbut Linda Pearse, bass sackbut; Garrett Lahr, bass sackbut; Sylvain Bergeron, theorbo; Alexander Weimann, organ Ercole Porta (1585-1630)   1. Corda Deo dabimus Francesco Usper (bef /av.1570-1641)   2. Vulnerasti cor meum Carlo Fillago (ca / v. 1586-1644)   3. Sub tuum praesidium Carlo Fillago   4. Confitemini Domino Gasparo Casati (ca 1610-1641)   5. Laetare Syon Ottavio Maria Grandi (fl 1610-1630)   6.Sonata decima nona 1628 Federico Cauda (unknown /inconnu)   7. Iste sanctus Federico Cauda   8. Beatus vir qui suffert / Sancte N. Leone Leoni (ca 1650-1627)   9. Deus exaudi 10. In te Domine speravi Nicolò Corradini (d 1646) 11. Spargite flores Nicolò Corradini 12. Cantate Domino Stefano Pasino (fl 1610-1679) 13. Sonata XII detta la Savolda Carlo Fillago 14. Diligam te Domine 15. Ego sum qui sum Francesco Usper 16. Intonuit de caelo Federico Cauda 17. Domine Iesu Christe 18. Iubilemus Deo ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879