Elisa La Marca – The Queenes Maskes. A Varietie of Lute Music from the Early English Court (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:12 minutes | 957 MB | Genre: Classical
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Throughout its Golden Age, England cultivated the masque, an elite entertainment featuring dialogue, song, and dance. As part of these spectacles, courtiers—and at times even the queen herself—often graced the dance floor. But it was hired professionals who provided the musical heart of these productions. Lutenists in particular were especially adept at creating music for any occasion. The dances, variations on popular songs, and fantasias they composed are full of versatility and virtuosity. This recording features lute works by the foremost composers of the Elizabethan-Jacobean era, with music by Dowland, Holborne, Bacheler, Ferrabosco, and other contemporaries who participated in The Queenes Maskes. For many years Elisa La Marca has been much sought after by leading specialist ensembles (Il Giardino Armonico, Il Pomo d’Oro, Les Musiciens du Prince, Zefiro etc.), with which she appears in prestigious locations, the mostly recent being the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Here she presents her first solo album, devoted to one of her favourite repertoires.
Tracklist:
1-01. Elisa La Marca – Sir John Smith, His Almaine (02:28)
1-02. Elisa La Marca – A Fancy (03:18)
1-03. Elisa La Marca – Pavan No. 6 (02:41)
1-04. Elisa La Marca – The Right Honorable the Lady Cliftons Spirit (01:38)
1-05. Elisa La Marca – Volt No. 1 (02:09)
1-06. Elisa La Marca – Volt No. 2 (01:19)
1-07. Elisa La Marca – The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth, King of Denmarke, His Galliard (02:53)
1-08. Elisa La Marca – Forlorn Hope (03:10)
1-09. Elisa La Marca – The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, High Marshall of England, His Galliard (01:46)
1-10. Elisa La Marca – The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard (01:14)
1-11. Elisa La Marca – Fantasie No. 4 (02:34)
1-12. Elisa La Marca – The Right Honourable the Lady Rich, Her Galliard (01:32)
1-13. Elisa La Marca – Fantasie No. 7 (03:44)
1-14. Elisa La Marca – Pavan No. 3 (02:03)
1-15. Elisa La Marca – The First of the Queenes Maskes (01:00)
1-16. Elisa La Marca – The Second of the Queenes Maskes (01:07)
1-17. Elisa La Marca – The Last of the Queenes Maskes (01:26)
1-18. Elisa La Marca – Coranto No. 6 (01:08)
1-19. Elisa La Marca – Fantasie No. 2 (02:17)
1-20. Elisa La Marca – The Right Honourable Ferdinando, Earle of Darby, His Galliard (01:56)
1-21. Elisa La Marca – Mounsier Ballard, His Coranto (01:30)
1-22. Elisa La Marca – John Perrichon, His Coranto (00:44)
1-23. Elisa La Marca – Coranto No. 3 (01:04)
1-24. Elisa La Marca – Pavan No. 2 (02:11)
1-25. Elisa La Marca – Monsieurs Almaine (06:10)