Sollazzo Ensemble & Anna Danilevskaia - Parle qui veut: Moralizing songs of the Middle Ages (2017)

Tracklist

01. Il megli’ è pur tacere
02. Angnel son biancho
03. Musicha son / Già furon / Ciascun vuol
04. Dal traditor
05. Va, Fortune
06. Le basile
07. Hont paur
08. Parle qui veut
09. Pour che que je ne puis
10. Perché vendecta
11. O pensieri vani
12. Ligiadra donna
13. Cacciando per gustar / Ai cinci, ai toppi



Sollazzo Ensemble makes its recording debut following its prize-winning performance at the highly respected biennial York Early Music International Young Artists Competition.

Comprising sopranos Perrine Devillers and Yukie Sato, tenor Vivien Simon, medieval fiddles Anna Danilevskaia and Sophia Danilevskaia, and harpist Vincent Kibildis this vibrant young ensemble offers a fresh perspective on mediaeval repertoire.

A critical success Parle qui veut won a Diapason d'or de l'année and was nominated for a 2019 BBC Music Magazine Award. It was also named a 'Disc of the Year' by The Arts Desk and a 'Critics’ Choice – #4 Best Recording of 2017' by De Standaard, among accolades further from BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone and Diapason.

On Parle qui veut the performers embrace the exuberant style of flourishing melodies which was fashionable in the north of Italy in the fourteenth century. In contrast, a different kind of expressivity is required for the sober and succinct aesthetic of the works with French provenance.

Sollazzo creates a pure, bright sound, enhanced by the songs’ incredibly open textures and the use of the rarely heard Pythagorean temperament. All in all, this represents a remarkable debut.

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