Sollazzo Ensemble, Anna Danilevskaia - Flamboyance (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Una panthera
02. Aurora vultu (from the Codex Torino J.II.9)
03. O Sancte Sebastiane
04. Eya dulcis - Vale placens (Arranged after Gilles Binchois (c.1400-60) in the manner of the Bayeux manuscript)
05. Amours merci
06. Pour une fois et pour toute ma vie
07. Amis tous dous - Molendinium de Paris
08. Je veulx chanter
09. Perch'i non seppi passar
10. In forma
11. Chosi pensoso
13. Kyrie Rondello (from the Vatican manuscript Urbinates latini 1419)
14. Estampie (from the Robertsbridge Codex)
15. Benedicamus (from the Messina manuscript (14th c.))



Fire, movement, and transformation lie at the heart of this recording. Flamboyance immerses the listener in the vibrant musical world of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when Europe’s culture—like its flamboyant Gothic architecture—embraced colour, intensity, and exuberance.

Spanning more than a century, from the early Italian Trecento to the dawn of the Burgundian age, this programme traces how polyphony spread “like wildfire” between north and south, sacred and secular, court and chapel. Motets, chansons, madrigals, dances, and sacred works by Landini, Ciconia, Du Fay, Binchois, and their contemporaries illustrate an ever-evolving repertoire in which devotion and passion, intellect and pomp coexist. Performed by the Sollazzo Ensemble, expanded to twenty singers and instrumentalists, this music is presented in a manner reminiscent of princely banquets and ceremonial contexts.

Rather than treating the late Middle Ages as a distant historical epoch, the recording invites listeners to experience these sounds as a living, vibrant musical world.