Michał Gondko – Polonica (Renaissance Lute, ca 1600) (2015) [FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

In addition to the works attributed to the lutenists active at the Royal Polish court in the late sixteenth century, there is a substantial repertoire of compositions identified as ‘Polish dances’ or ‘Polish songs’ which have been preserved in numerous sources of late Renaissance lute music. Characterized by an irresistible melodic charm and a straightforward harmonic and rhythmical texture, such musical polonica spread across Europe, achieving what might have been the widest distribution of musical ‘Polishness’ before Chopin. Four hundred years later, Polish lutenist Michal Gondko sets out to trace polonica in lute tablatures from around 1600, and presents a selection of forty compositions, many of which have not been previously recorded.

Tracklist:
01. Chorea eiusdem nationis
02. Chorea polonica I
03. Chorea polonica eiusdem authoris
04. Cantio polonica
05. Polnischer Tantz I
06. Polnischer Tantz II
07. Polnischer Tantz III
08. Polnischer Tantz IV
09. Polnischer Tantz V
10. Villanella AD
11. Villanella polonica
12. Finale Alberti Dlugorai
13. Chorea polonica II
14. Chorea polonica III
15. Chorea polonica IV
16. Fantasia AD
17. Polskey tanecz welmy pekney
18. Polnisch Tantz
19. Ein Pol[n]ischer Tantz (Bathori)
20. Praeludium Diomedis
21. Galliarda di Diomede
22. Danza
23. Caspari Poloni Gagliarda
24. Fantasia Alberti Dlugorai Poloni
25. A Pollish Vilanell
26. A Polish Ayre
27. Ballo Polaco
28. Chorea polonica Mowi na mie sasiada
29. Ein polnischer Tantz (Zuzanneczko)
30. Chançon a la Polonnoise Susannesco
31. Autre Taned Spolski
32. Balletto Polacho I
33. Balletto Polacho II
34. Balletto Polacho III
35. Balletto Polacho IV
36. Balletto Polacho V
37. Allemande (Bathori)
38. Taned Spolski
39. Galliarda eiusdem authoris
40. Fantasia Iacobi Reys