The Lion's Ear La Morra

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Album info

Album-Release:
2016

HRA-Release:
09.03.2016

Label: Ramée

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

Artist: La Morra

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • 1Lirum bililirum03:14
  • 2(Rostibolli) Gioioso02:11
  • 3Vivite felices02:46
  • 4Ricercar (Ness #4)00:53
  • 5De mon triste desplaisir (After Jean Richafort)01:53
  • 6Fantasia De mon triste02:24
  • 7Che farala, che dirala02:31
  • 8Spem in alium02:50
  • 9Se mai, per maraveglia05:18
  • 10O vos omnes02:32
  • 11Ecce video celos apertos03:29
  • 12Jerusalem, convertere01:18
  • 13Recercada02:45
  • 14Lautre yor per un matin (After Anonymous)04:15
  • 15Fortuna disperata05:09
  • 16Fortuna disperata - Sancte Petre01:33
  • 17Quid retribuam tibi, Leo?01:54
  • 18Cela sans plus02:43
  • 19In omni tribulatione01:31
  • 20Ricercar (Ness #10)01:39
  • 21O stella maris (After Anonymous)04:35
  • 22Canon di papa Lione x a 3 voci01:30
  • 23Salve, Regina06:43
  • Total Runtime01:05:36

Info for The Lion's Ear

In 1512, Giovanni di Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici (1475-1521) was the eldest surviving male member of the senior line of the celebrated Medici family of Florence, the eldest surviving son of the mythic Lorenzo “il Magnifico.” Giovanni had inherited his family’s refined interest in and zealous support of the arts: literature; painting, sculpture, and architecture; and music. But of all of these, Giovanni – perhaps due in part to his poor eyesight – favored music, for which his passion was legendary among contemporaries. The musical life of Leo’s court was unimaginably rich and vibrant, as innumerable eyewitness accounts confirm.

Our CD aims to bring that world acoustically to life, to revive the soundscape of the Leonine court and illustrate the range of practices typifying Leo’s own musical experiences. It is intended as a tribute to a rare and extraordinary patron of music (himself a composer and musician), who occupied that singular position at the very summit of the universal ecclesiastical hierarchy.

La Morra


La Morra
formed in 2000 and named after Heinrich Isaac's famous instrumental piece, is among the leading formations specializing in the performance of European music traditionally referred to as 'late Medieval' and / or 'early Renaissance' (roughly c1300-c1500).

A melting pot of national temperaments, the ensemble makes its home in Basle, the cultural capital of Switzerland, where research into the 'early music' and its performance has been practiced for many decades. Under the artistic leadership of Corina Marti and Michal Gondko, La Morra re-defines itself according to the requirements of the projects it undertakes.

La Morra has performed at some of the most prestigious European and North-American Early Music events, including Festival van Vlaanderen (Belgium), Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet and Voix et Route Romane (France), Tage alter Musik in Regensburg (Germany), Kilkenny Arts Festival (Ireland), Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht (The Netherlands), Oslo Internasjonale Kirkemusikkfestival (Norway), Misteria Paschalia and Muzyka w Raju (Poland), Festival Internacional de Música da Póvoa de Varzim (Portugal), Freunde alter Musik Basel and Forum Alte Musik Zürich (Switzerland), Houston Early Music, The Da Camera Society of Mount St. Mary's College, The Chamber Music Society of Saint Cloud and the Early Music Guild of Seattle (USA). Concert tours have also taken the ensemble to Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.

La Morra’s CD releases are enthusiastically received. Among the proofs of this are such distinctions as the Gramophone Award Nomination, Classical Music Awards Nomination, Diapason d’Or, Preis and Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the constantly high ratings in the international music press.

Booklet for The Lion's Ear

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