Mala Punica & Pedro Memelsdorff - Gothic Italy: Johannes Ciconia, Matteo da Perugia, Zaccara da Teramo (2023)

Don’t forget Early Music Day on March 21st! We will celebrate this year with digital premieres of two beautiful albums. Pedro Memelsdorff is a renowned musicologist who founded the ensemble Mala Punica. With them he intensively explored the music of the Italian Trecento during his partnership with Erato, leading to three albums we’ve gathered under the title Gothic Italy. These recordings include the complete motets of Ciconia, a Flemish composer who settled in Padua and was one of the most important figures of the ars subtilior. Then, the complete songs - mostly in French - by the very innovative Matteo da Perugia, one of the first ever composers to put instrumental recommendations in his scores. These are coupled with a Missa cantilena, a parody mass made up by Memelsdorff after sacred or adapted profane pieces from various Italian 15th-century codices, which is an absolute splendor!

Tracklist
01. Missa cantilena: Kyrie (After Rondello from Firenze, Biblioteca nazionale MS Panciatichiano 26)
02. Missa cantilena: Gloria VII (After "Rosetta", from Modena, Biblioteca estense MS M.5.24)
03. Missa cantilena: Gloria I (After "En attendant", from Modena, Biblioteca estense MS M.5.24)
04. Missa cantilena: Gloria III (After "Fior gentil", from Bologna MS Q15)
05. Missa cantilena: Hallelujah (After "Deus manifeste" from Milan Antiphonary)
06. Missa cantilena: Credo II (From Modena, Biblioteca estense MS M.5.24)
07. Missa cantilena: Credo V (After "Du village", from Bologna MS Q15)
08. Missa cantilena: Interlude (After "Non voler donna", from Firenze MS 87 "Codex Squarcialupi")
09. Missa cantilena: Benedicitus Marie filius (From Torino, Biblioteca universitaria MS T.III.2 "Codex Boverio")
10. Missa cantilena: Sanctus (From Roma, Bilbioteca vaticana MS Urb. 1419 and Guardiagrele, Santa Maria Maggiore MS)
11. Missa cantilena: Ave sancta mundi salus panis - Agnus Dei (From Modena, Biblioteca estense MS M.5.24)
12. Missa cantilena: Interlude - Benedicamus Domino (From Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Canonici 229)
13. O virum omnimoda - O lux et decus - O beate Nicholae
14. O felix templum jubila
15. Venecie mundi splendor - Michael qui stena domus - Italie
16. Albane, mise celitus (Instrumental Version)
17. Petrum Marcello Venetum - O Petre, antistes inclite
18. Dicit Dominus Petro
19. O Petre, Christi discipule
20. Ut te per omnes celitus - Ingens alumnus Padue
21. O beatum incendium
22. O Padua, sidus preclarum
23. Alleluia
24. Albane, misse celitus - Albane, doctor maxime
25. Alleluia. Franciscus pauper et humilis
26. Doctorum principem - Melodia suavissima
27. Padu… serenans nobile (Instrumental Version)
28. A qui fortune ne se vuelt amer
29. Pour Dieu vous pri haulte dame
30. Plus onques dame n'ameray
31. Pour bel acueil suy je, las, deceu
32. Andray soulet au mielz que ie pouray (Instrumental Version)
33. Puisque je sui pour loyaulté tenir
34. Dame de honour plesant' et gracieuxe
35. Gia da rete d'Amor
36. Dame playsans
37. Hélas avril
38. Trover ne puis aucunemant confort