Per voi ardo Carlos Mena & Manuel Minguillón

• Jacques Arcadelt (1507 - 1568):
• 1 Arcadelt: Amor tu sai (Arr. E. de Valderrábano) 02:20
• Philippe Verdelot (1475 - 1552):
• 2 Verdelot: Vita de la mia vita (Arr. E. de Valderrábano) 02:01
• Enríquez de Valderrábano (1500 - 1557):
• 3 Valderrábano: Soneto No. 20 "Benedicto sea el giorno" 01:16
• 4 Valderrábano: Fantasia No. 14 "Contrahecha a una del milanes" 02:48
• Alonso Mudarra (1508 - 1580):
• 5 Mudarra: La vita fugge 03:49
• 6 Mudarra: O gelosia d'amanti 02:35
• Sebastiano Festa (1490 - 1524):
• 7 Festa: Sparci sparcium (Arr. D. Pisador) 03:31
• Adrian Willaert (1490 - 1562):
• 8 Willaert: Lagrime mesti (Arr. D. Pisador) 03:15
• 9 Willaert: A quando a quando havea (Arr. D. Pisador) 03:24
• Miguel de Fuenllana (1500 - 1579):
• 10 Fuenllana: Fantasia No. 7 01:39
• Jacques Arcadelt:
• 11 Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno (Arr. M. de Fuenllana) 02:01
• Philippe Verdelot:
• 12 Verdelot: Quanto sia lieto il giorno (Arr. M. de Fuenllana) 03:26
• Miguel de Fuenllana:
• 13 Fuenllana: Quanto ti vegio 01:05
• Alonso Mudarra:
• 14 Mudarra: Fantasía No. 1 01:29
• 15 Mudarra: Fantasía No. 7 02:05
• 16 Mudarra: Itene a l'ombra 04:32
• Enríquez de Valderrábano:
• 17 Valderrábano: Fantasia No. 13 "De contrapunto" 01:57
• 18 Valderrábano: Soneto No. 2 02:13
• Philippe Verdelot:
• 19 Verdelot: Gloriar mi poss'io donne (Arr. E. de Valderrábano) 02:18
• 20 Verdelot: Madonna qual certezza (Arr. E. de Valderrábano) 02:44
• Miguel de Fuenllana:
• 21 Fuenllana: Tiento No. 2 01:32
• Jacquet de Berchem (1505 - 1567):
• 22 Berchem: O s'io potessi donna (Arr. M. de Fuenllana) 02:41
• Jacques Arcadelt:
• 23 Arcadelt: O felici occhi miei (Arr. M. de Fuenllana) 01:36
• Philippe Verdelot:
• 24 Verdelot: Madonna per voi ardo (Arr. M. de Fuenllana) 01:57
• Adrian Willaert:
• 25 Willaert: O bene mio (Arr. D. Pisador) 02:48
• 26 Willaert: Madonna mia fa (Arr. D. Pisador) 02:00
• Total Runtime 01:03:02

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Per voi ardo presents a large number of Italian madrigals in the form they are preserved in Spain in the vihuela books of Enríquez de Valderrábano (1547), Diego Pisador (1552) and Miguel de Fuenllana (1554). They are complemented by settings by Alonso Mudarra, original compositions like Milán’s, using Italian texts of the same flavour, and with accompaniments that parallel the arranged madrigals in many ways. Some solo works by Mudarra and Fuenllana offer brief momeThe arrangements by Valderrábano, Pisador and Fuenllana, on the other hand, follow exactly the precedent of the 1536 Willaert-Verdelot collection. They are tablature arrangements of the madrigals without modification that are sung in exactly the way that Verdelot and Willaert envisaged. In the absence of parallel sources in Italy, they are important not only as evidence of the spread of this practice to Spain, but also as the main written evidence that confirms a continuing practice of singing arrangements of 1530s madrigals for decades after they first appeared.

Carlos Mena, countertenor
Manuel Minguillón, vihuela

Carlos Mena
The countertenor Carlos Mena was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, and studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) in Basel under Richard Levitt and René Jacobs. He has sung for audiences around the world and his operatic rôles have included the title-rôle in Handel’s Radamisto in Salzburg, Speranza in Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Berlin, Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Madrid and the same composer’s Death in Venice in Barcelona. His recordings have brought a number of international awards. Carlos Mena also includes Lieder and contemporary music in his repertoire. In 2009 he founded the Capilla Santa Maria, of which he is the chief conductor.

Manuel Minguillón
was born in Madrid, Spain, where he obtained a double bachelor degree in guitar performance and early plucked instruments. Minguillón perfected his skills under the guidance of master lutenist Hopkinson Smith in Basel, Switzerland. Afterwards, he studied a Master's Degree and Doctorate in Early Plucked Instruments with the world-renowned lutenist Paul O'Dette at the Eastman School of Music, In New York.

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