Herba mirabilis Roberto Cascio & Fortuna Reditus

• Anonimo: Nel dolce tempo de la prima etade:
• 1Anonimo: Nel dolce tempo de la prima etade02:17
• Sebastiano Festa (ca. 1490 - 1524): L'ultimo dì di maggio:
• 2Festa: L'ultimo dì di maggio02:18
• Anonimo: O vaghe montanine pastorelle:
• 3Anonimo: O vaghe montanine pastorelle03:43
• Ioannes de Erfordia: Сu cu cu:
• 4Erfordia: Сu cu cu00:52
• Marchetto Cara (ca. 1470 - ca. 1525): Mentre io vo per questi boschi:
• 5Cara: Mentre io vo per questi boschi06:21
• Giovan Battista Zesso: Io t'ho donato il core:
• 6Zesso: Io t'ho donato il core01:58
• Anonimo: Son qual tronco:
• 7Anonimo: Son qual tronco03:30
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino (ca. 1470 - ca. 1535): Pace e gloria al gentil lauro:
• 8Tromboncino: Pace e gloria al gentil lauro04:18
• Fabbe e Fasoi / Si, si, t'arvò:
• 9Tromboncino: Fabbe e Fasoi / Si, si, t'arvò05:43
• Quando lo pomo vien dalo pomaro:
• 10Tromboncino: Quando lo pomo vien dalo pomaro01:49
• Antonio Caprioli (ca. 1425 - 1475): Sotto un verde et alto cupresso:
• 11Caprioli: Sotto un verde et alto cupresso03:47
• Michele Pesenti (ca. 1470 - ca. 1522): Spenta m'hai dal petto amore:
• 12Pesenti: Spenta m'hai dal petto amore06:07
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino: Pregovi frondi, fiori, acque:
• 13Tromboncino: Pregovi frondi, fiori, acque03:57
• Anonimo: Da l'orto se ne vien la villanella:
• 14Anonimo: Da l'orto se ne vien la villanella01:26
• Francesco Spinacino: Recercare:
• 15Spinacino: Recercare01:01
• Iohannes Lulinus Venetus: Nel tempo che riveste il verde manto:
• 16Venetus: Nel tempo che riveste il verde manto02:36
• Francesco Spinacino: Recercare:
• 17Spinacino: Recercare01:20
• 18Spinacino: Recercare01:24
• 19Spinacino: Recercare01:41
• 20Spinacino: Recercare01:39
• Ioannes Pier Mantovano: Quando andaratu al monte bel pegoraro:
• 21Mantovano: Quando andaratu al monte bel pegoraro05:11
• Vincenzo Capirola (1474 - 1548): Stavasi amor dormendo sotto a un fagio:
• 22Capirola: Stavasi amor dormendo sotto a un fagio01:01
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino: Stavasi amor dormendo sotto a un fagio:
• 23Tromboncino: Stavasi amor dormendo sotto a un fagio01:47
• Total Runtime01:05:46

Info for Herba mirabilis

From the rich musical scene of the early sixteenth century comes a repertoire that sings the praises of the vegetable world comprised in the vast geographic horizon stretching up from verdant meadows full of flowers to the mountain pastures where shepherds and shepherdesses playfully send back the echo of their own voices. Allusions, onomatopoeias, adages and bywords, maxims, pangs of love, games and dances to ancient tunes sprout from citations of roses, gardens, shady woods, cypresses, triumphant laurels, broad-beans and beans. A music that, through simple words (in vulgar tongue, the language of the Italian renascence), speaks to the listener's fancy and imagination, depicting a unitary world in whose great theatre everything (man, his feelings and nature) is interconnected. This very particular interweaving between culture and music in the Renaissance is interpreted by the "Fortuna Reditus" ensemble conducted by Roberto Cascio that in this new album is continuing his study and recovery of Italian early music in the wake of the numerous productions highly appreciated by the public and critics (Ippolito Ghezzi, TC650770; Falconieri, Coppola, TC640001; Bianchelli, TC660201; Pinxit, TC450002; etc.).

Anna Giuseppina Mosconi, viola da gamba
Roberto Cascio, lute
Fortuna Reditus
Roberto Cascio, conductor

Roberto Cascio
graduated in Lute at the Conservatory of Verona and the Royal College of London, is founder and director, in Bologna, of the Cappella Musicale di San Giacomo and of the theatre group Teatro Antico. Since 2015, he has been artistic director of the Microfestival di Musica Antica at the Cambonino Museum in Cremona.

He has numerous concerts and several recordings and publications to his credit. Among the latter is the complete works of Ippolito Ghezzi (Tactus), a 17th-century Augustinian, whose complete scores have also recently been published (Da Vinci Publishing).

Intermezzos, comedies, farces and sacred plays constitute the stage activity of the Cappella Musicale in collaboration with Teatro Antico.

From 2018 to 2021, he was one of the five members of the Executive Board of the Italian Lute Society.

In 2021, he received a letter of commendation from the Prior General of the Augustinian Order, Rome, for his work on the historical recovery of the music of the Augustinian fathers.

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