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CIARAMELLA Ciaramella
Praised for performing intricate fifteenth-century
counterpoint "with the ease of jazz musicians improvising on a theme",
Ciaramella brings to life medieval and early Renaissance music from historical
events and manuscripts. Its members are united by the conviction that every
composition conceals a rich story waiting to be unlocked through historical
research and speculative performance. In that spirit, this recording combines
written polyphony with reconstructions of folk songs and arrangements based on contemporary
improvisation. Founded on a core of wind instruments, shawm, sackbut, recorder,
organ, and voice, Ciaramella takes its name from the Italian shawm and from a
fifteenth-century song about a beautiful girl whose clothes are full of holes.
When she opens her mouth, she knocks men flat.
Ciaramella's members met as graduate students in Cleveland, Ohio. They first performed together on Christmas Day 2003, in Spoleto, Italy. There they collaborated with the musicologist Gioia Filocamo to perform music from the
manuscript Panciatichi 27, much of which had not been heard for centuries.
In 2004 the group performed in a staged production of the first Hebrew play, A
Comedy of Betrothal by Leone de' Sommi (c.1550) at the Cleveland Museum of
Art. Ciaramella has also performed for the Bloomington Early Music Festival,
Oberlin's Baroque Performance Institute, the Lute Society of America, and the American Musicological Society in Seattle. As first runner-up in the 2003 Early
Music America competition, Ciaramella made the present recording for Naxos in June 2004. Ciaramella was a finalist in the 2003 Flanders Festival International
Young Artist's Presentation and in the 2004 Medieval/Renaissance Early Music America competition in New York.
www.ciaramella.org
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Naxos
8.578044-45 |
Chamber Music, Vocal, Instrumental, Choral - Sacred, Choral - Secular
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| Chamber Music - PULLOIS, J. / DUFAY, G. / CICONIA, J. / BINCHOIS, G. de B. dit (Music from the Court of Burgundy) (Ciaramella) |
Yarlung Records
YAR05785 |
Chamber Music, Instrumental, Vocal Ensemble
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| SACRED AND SECULAR MUSIC FROM RENAISSANCE GERMANY |
Naxos
8.557627 |
Chamber Music, Instrumental |
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