La Morra - The Lion's Ear (2016)

In 1513, Giovanni di Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (1475-1521) son of the mythic Lorenzo il Magnifico was elected Pope Leo X. Giovanni had inherited his family's refined interest in, and zealous support of, the arts: literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music. But of all of these, Giovanni 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. This recording aims to bring this world acoustically to life and illustrate the range of practices typifying Leo's own musical experiences. It is 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.

Tracklist:
01. Lirum bililirum
02. (Rostibolli) Gioioso
03. Vivite felices
04. Ricercar (Ness #4)
05. De mon triste desplaisir (After Jean Richafort)
06. Fantasia "De mon triste"
07. Che farala, che dirala
08. Spem in alium
09. Se mai, per maraveglia
10. O vos omnes
11. Ecce video celos apertos
12. Jerusalem, convertere
13. Recercada
14. Lautre yor per un matin (After Anonymous)
15. Fortuna disperata
16. Fortuna disperata / Sancte Petre
17. Quid retribuam tibi, Leo?
18. Cela sans plus
19. In omni tribulatione
20. Ricercar (Ness #10)
21. O stella maris (After Anonymous)
22. Canon di papa Lione x a 3 voci
23. Salve, Regina