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Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel - Costanzo Festa: La Spagna - 32 Contrapunti (2003)

Posted By: tirexiss
Date: 21 Jul 2023 11:59:46
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel - Costanzo Festa: La Spagna - 32 Contrapunti (2003)

Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel - Costanzo Festa: La Spagna - 32 Contrapunti (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 52:08 | 270 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Catalog: HMC 801799

The cycle of 125 variations that Costanzo Festa composed on the famous melody called La Spagna is conceived on a scale unique during the Renaissance, and may justly be described as a compositional tour-de-force. It has been comparisons to works such as Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations. This budget priced reissue, released for the first time in 2003, features a selection of these variations performed by the Huelgas-Ensemble.
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Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - Costanzo Festa: La Spagna - 32 Contrapunti (2015)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Date: 19 Dec 2021 22:00:24
Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - Costanzo Festa: La Spagna - 32 Contrapunti (2015)

Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - Costanzo Festa: La Spagna - 32 Contrapunti (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 240 Mb | Total time: 52:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMA 1951799 | Recorded: 2002

While this first recording of 32 of Costanzo Festa’s 125 variations on the popular cantus firmus melody La Spagna is expertly performed and sounds terrific, this definitely is a disc that will appeal primarily to specialists and other devotees of 16th-century instrumental music. Listeners who appreciate such things will be fascinated with Festa’s imaginative and highly skilled treatment of the 37-note “theme”, which he preserves intact throughout each of his contrapunti, which employ varying numbers of parts, from three to 11. The latter, Contrapunto 125, which is “the last variation of the manuscript”, is grand and richly harmonious and Paul Van Nevel’s choice of instruments fully exploits these attributes.
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