Pedro Memelsdorff, Mala Punica - Narcisso speculando: The madrigals of Don Paolo da Firenze, 1390-1425 (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 285 Mb | Total time: 56:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901732 | Recorded: 2001
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 285 Mb | Total time: 56:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901732 | Recorded: 2001
We still have a great deal of evidence today about the ecclesiastical and diplomatic career of Don Paolo di Marco, abbot and tenorista at Florence in the early fifteenth century. But we also owe him a number of allegorical madrigals which are perhaps the most innovative, and certainly the most virtuosic of this period. Apparently innocent bucolic or mythological texts conceal philosophical intrigues, political ideas and moral precepts. Their poetry and music still speak intensely to us in the twenty-first century.