Les Basses Réunies, Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci – Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Les Basses Réunies, Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci – Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas (2020)
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Born in Toledo, Diego Ortiz published the Trattado de Glosas in Rome in 1553. At that time, he was living in Naples in the service of Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba and Viceroy of Naples. This region was deeply influenced by Spain. His treatise, published simultaneously in Spanish and Italian, is first and foremost a precious source for the art of Spanish instrumental performance. The second book of the Trattado de Glosas is performed here in its entirety, with Bruno Cocset and Guido Balestracci alternating in the Recercadas. As a counterpoint to this corpus mingling inventiveness and virtuosity, the programme includes short pieces by composers emblematic of the Golden Century of Spain, contemporaries of Ortiz: Antonio de Cabezón, Luis de Milan and Tomas Luis de Victoria. The process of reinterpreting this repertory is closely linked to the rediscovery of instruments that have disappeared and been recreated for the occasion: based on information gleaned from the luthiers Gasparo da Salò and Domenico Russo, the paintings of the Spanish master El Greco, the engravings in Ganassis treatise Regola rubertina and the few remaining and alas restored instruments from the period, five viols have been specially made by the luthier Charles Riché.

The latest album from the Les Basses Réunies ensemble takes us deep into the phantasmagorical world of the Trattado De Glosas (literally “Treatise Of The Glosses”) published by Diego Ortiz, a unique testament of the instrumental music of the Spanish Renaissance mixing poetry, profundity, innovation and virtuosity.

Published in Rome in 1553 in both Spanish and Italian, this treatise offers a series of variations for several instruments. In the second volume, recorded here in its entirety, we find a succession of Ricercares (a typical 16th century musical form based on a process of imitation) of rare melodic and rhythmic richness, whose roots lie in then-popular dance pieces such as passamezzo antico and passamezzo moderno, the Ruggiero, the folia and the romanesca.

The performance of this second book alternates the two main musicians, Bruno Cocset and Guido Balestracci, who are joined by bass viols, organs, harpsichord and vihuela (Spanish baroque guitar). The Basses Réunies’ work of re-reading this repertoire is closely linked to organology, through the rediscovery of instruments which were lost and then recreated for the occasion. These restorations relied on the use of period paintings (in particular the works of Greco) and a collection of engravings representing musicians and rare instruments, which have often unfortunately survived to the present day in a rather pitiful state.

The pioneering and visionary work of the instrumentalist, composer and theorist Diego Ortiz contains a foreshadowing of the art of “diminution” (ornamentation of a melody) that would go on to reign supreme over all Italian music of the Renaissance. – François Hudry

Tracklist:

01. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada terçera para violone sola (01:38)
02. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada primera sobre el canto Ilano “La Spagna” (01:42)
03. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada segunda sobre el canto Ilano “La Spagna” (01:26)
04. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada terçera sobre el canto Ilano “La Spagna” (01:31)
05. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada quinta sobre el canto Ilano “La Spagna” (01:45)
06. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada quarta sobre el canto Ilano “La Spagna” (01:30)
07. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada sesta sobre el canto Ilano “La Spagna” (02:16)
08. Xavier Diaz-Latorre – Fantasia XIII por el primer y segundo tono (01:37)
09. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada primera sobre el madrigal “O felici occhi miei” (01:41)
10. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada terçera sobre el madrigal “O felici occhi miei” (01:49)
11. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada segunda sobre el madrigal “O felici occhi miei” (01:52)
12. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada quarta sobre el madrigal “O felici occhi miei” (02:02)
13. Maude Gratton – Diferencias sobre “La gallarda milanesa” (01:40)
14. Bruno Cocset – O Magnum Mysterium (02:48)
15. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada quarta para violone sola (01:12)
16. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada primera sobre la cancion “Doulce memoire” (02:40)
17. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada segunda sobre la cancion “Doulce memoire” (02:53)
18. Xavier Diaz-Latorre – Fantasia I por el primer tono (01:48)
19. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada terçera sobre la cancion “Doulce memoire” (02:25)
20. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada quarta sobre la cancion “Doulce memoire” (02:29)
21. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada primera para violone sola (01:48)
22. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada segunda para violone sola (01:09)
23. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada primera sobre tenore “El passamezzo antiguo” (02:05)
24. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada segunda sobre tenore “El passamezzo moderno” (01:13)
25. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada terçera sobre tenore “El passamezzo antiguo” (01:43)
26. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada quarta sobre tenore “La folia” (01:21)
27. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada quinta sobre tenore “El passamezzo antiguo” (02:06)
28. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada sesta sobre tenore “La Romanesca” (01:15)
29. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada settima sobre tenore “La Romanesca” (01:09)
30. Bruno Cocset – Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada otava sobre tenore “La folia” (01:38)
31. Maude Gratton – Diferencias sobre “El Canto del Caballero” (03:09)
32. Bruno Cocset – Recercada del Trattado de Glosas: Recercada sobre tenore “Aria di Ruggiero” Quinta pars (01:55)

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