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DOR-93228

FOLIAS FESTIVAS

BELLADONNA
BAROQUE QUARTET


Margaret Humphrey • Baroque Violin ~ Cléa Galhano • Recorders
Rebecca Humphrey • Baroque 'Cello ~ Barbara Weiss • Harpsichord

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From the boisterous street festivals of fifteenth-century Portugal to the refirned entertainments of royal festival courts, folias carried the spontaneous energy of popular music into the world of art music.   These irresistible dance pieces, which were transmitted via the high-spirited strumming of the five-course Spanish guitar, emboldened seventeenth-century composers to create exuberent and playful compositions of their own.
The selections on this recording include folias from Spain, Italy, and France, along with pieces built upon other ground-bass dances or incorporating dance rhythms in their structures.
- Kelly Harness and Barbara Weiss

[1.]   Folias echa para mi Señora Doña Tarolilla de Carallenos • Andrea Falconieri (1585-1656)
[2.]   Sonata terza per camera • Tarquinio Merula (1594-1665)
[3.]   Fantasia detta la Portia • Falconieri
[4.]   Jacara • Juan Cabanilles (1644-1712)*
[5.]   Folias • Bernardo Storace (fl.1664)*
[6.]   Sonata Decima à 3, Book II • Dario Castello (fl.1629)
[7.]   Passacalles • Anonymous (1706)*
[8.]   Folias • Anonymous (1709)*
[9.]   Canzona à 2 • Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde (fl.1638)
[10.] Canzona la Pusterla • Tarquinio Merula
[11.] Tiento de septimo tono de dos tiples • Pedro de Tafalla (1605-1660)*
[12.] Folies d'espagne • Marin Marais (1656-1728)**
[13.] Ciaconna • Storace
[14.] La suave melodia • Falconieri
[15.] Recercada quarta la Gamba • Diego Ortiz (c.1510-c.1570)
[16.] Recercada tercera • Ortiz
[17.] Canzona la Luisignola • Merula
[18.] Sonata in a • Antonio Bertali (1605-1669)

Total Program Length: 63:34

* Arranged by Barbara Weiss
** Arranged by Cléa Galhano



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