Ecco la Primavera
14th- and 15th-Century Music from Italy
In the Folger Elizabethan Theater
March 11-13, 2011
Italian music blossomed in the early Renaissance, featuring beautiful flowing melodies which helped shape the beginnings of a new style. To welcome spring, Folger Consort performs music from Italian manuscripts by Landini, Hugo and Arnold de Lantins, Ciconia, and Du Fay. All of the music in this program was composed within about a 70-year span, between about 1370 and 1440, and the variety of sonority, harmonic language, and rhythmic texture is stunning.
Folger Consort
Artistic Directors
Robert Eisenstein - vielle, recorder
Christopher Kendall - lute, citole
Guest Artists
Trefoil
Drew Minter, countertenor, harp
Mark Rimple, countertenor, harp, psaltry, citole
Marcia Young, soprano, harp
