"O felice occhi miei" - Lute Music from Renaissance Italy Eduardo Egüez featuring La Compagnia del Madgriale

• Francesco Canova (1497 - 1543): Ricercar 2:
• 1 Canova: Ricercar 2 02:59
• Jacques Arcadelt (1507 - 1568), Perino Fiorentino (1523 - 1552): O felici occhi miei:
• 2 Fiorentino: O felici occhi miei 01:51
• Jacques Arcadelt: O felici occhi miei:
• 3 Arcadelt: O felici occhi miei 02:08
• Francesco Canova: Fantasia 21:
• 4 Canova: Fantasia 21 03:01
• Fantasia 38:
• 5 Canova: Fantasia 38 01:32
• Fantasia 28:
• 6 Canova: Fantasia 28 01:39
• Alberto Da Ripa (1500 - 1552): Pavane La Romanesque:
• 7 Ripa: Pavane La Romanesque 02:30
• Gaillarde L’Amirale:
• 8 Ripa: Gaillarde L’Amirale 01:39
• Fantasie sixiesme:
• 9 Ripa: Fantasie sixiesme 06:28
• Vincenzo Ruffo (1508 - 1587), Giovanni Paolo Paladino (1500 - 1566): Alcun non può saper:
• 10 Paladino: Alcun non può saper 02:13
• Vincenzo Ruffo: Alcun non può saper:
• 11 Ruffo: Alcun non può saper 02:21
• Giovanni Paolo Paladino: Pavane:
• 12 Paladino: Pavane 01:23
• 13 Paladino: Pavane 02:14
• Gaillarde:
• 14 Paladino: Gaillarde 02:06
• Fantasia:
• 15 Paladino: Fantasia 05:37
• Pietro Paolo Borrono (1490 - 1563): Pavana detta La Lacrimosa:
• 16 Borrono: Pavana detta La Lacrimosa 03:21
• Saltarello primo:
• 17 Borrono: Saltarello primo 02:55
• Rogier Pathie (1510 - 1564), Alberto da Ripa (1500 - 1552): D’amour me plains:
• 18 Ripa: D’amour me plains 02:09
• Rogier Pathie: D’amour me plains:
• 19 Pathie: D’amour me plains 02:51
• Total Runtime 50:57

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O felici occhi miei marks a welcome first solo outing for lutenist Eduardo Egüez on Glossa, adding to the label’s long succession of releases devoted to Italian Renaissance music. The poem behind this album’s title refers to happiness and cruelty, harmony and discord, contrasts evoked by Egüez’s program which focuses on music by five leading Italian lutenists from the first half of the sixteenth century: Francesco Canova da Milano, Alberto da Ripa, Pietro Paolo Borrono, Giovanni Paolo Paladino, and Perino Fiorentino. The work and lives of these composers were all mixed up in the Italian Wars (1494-1559), which will have overshadowed their compositional activities as much as their playing at those various courts embroiled in the conflict. Egüez elegantly explores this bellicose time with virtuosic fantasias and sprightly dances, but also with diminutions on vocal intabulations – with these last emphasizing this new release’s Glossa family connections, as three of the tracks feature vocal contributions from La Compagnia del Madrigale and the sessions took place in that ensemble’s favored location of the aptly contemporaneous church in Roletto, just outside the city of Turin.

Eduardo Egüez, lute
La Compagnia del Madrigale

Eduardo Egüez
Born in Buenos Aires, Eduardo Egüez belongs to the new generation of argentine lutenists. He first studied guitar with Miguel Angel Girollet and Eduardo Fernández. His studies in composition were conducted at the Catholic Argentine University, while in 1995 he obtained his diploma in lute from the “Schola Cantorum Basiliensis” under the guidance the Hopkinson Smith.

Mr. Egüez has given many solo concerts in the main cities of South America, Europe, Australia and Japan, being well received by critics worldwide and highly appreciated by the public. He was received awards in the following international competitions: “Promociones Musicales”, Buenos Aires, 1984, “Círculo Guitarrístico Argentino”, Buenos Aires, 1984, “Concours International de Guitare”, Paris (Radio France), 1986, “V Concurso Internacional de Guitarra” (Jacinto and Inocencio Guerrero Foundation), Madrid, 1989.

He has given international courses and seminars, the most noteworthy being: « Camping Musical Bariloche », Argentina, « Universidad Católica Argentina », « Universidad Católica de Santiago de Chile », « Instituto para las Artes », Uruguay, « Musikhochschule Wuppertal », Germany, « Conservatoire Populaire de Musique », Geneva, « Fundación La Caixa », Murcia, Spain, « Conservatorio di Musica V. Bellini », Palermo, Italy, « Fondation Royaumont », France, « Académie Baroque Européenne d’Ambronay », France, “Festival de Guitarra de Gran Canaria”, Spain, Tokio Lute Society », Japan, “Lute Society of Sydney”, Australia, “Early Music Festival”, Gijón, Spain, “High School of Music”, Salvador de Bahia, Brasil.

Since 1992 to the present, Mr. Egüez has performed as a basso continuo player, being part of several groups such as: “Elyma” (Gabriel Garrido), “Hesperion XXI” (Jordi Savall), “Orchestra Mozart” (Claudio Abbado), “Ensemble Baroque de Limoges” (Christophe Coin), “La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roi” (Jean-Claude Malgoire), “Aurora” (Enrico Gatti), “Concerto Italiano” (Rinaldo Alessandrini), “Labyrinto” (Paolo Pandolfo), “The Rare Fruits Council” (Manfred Kraemer), “Café Zimmermann” (Valetti / Frisch), “Les Sacqueboutiers” (JP Canihac), “Ricercar Consort” (P. Pierlot). Mr. Eguez has also accompanied artists such as Emma Kirkby, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Rolf Lislevand, Victor Torres, among others.

Eduardo Egüez has recorded for several labels as: “Astrée Auvidis”, “Astrée Naïve”, “Arcana”, “Glossa”, “K617”, “Op 111”, “Alia Vox”, “E Lucevan le Stelle”, “Stradivarius”, “Symphonia”, “Alpha”, “Ambroisie”, “Naxos”, “Flora”, “Mirare”, “Accent”, “Harmonia Mundi”.

As a soloist he has recorded “Tombeau” with works by Silvius Leopold Weiss (E Lucevan le Stelle), the complete lute works by Johann Sebastian Bach (Ma recordings) and “Le Maître du Roi” with works by Robert de Visée (Ma recordings).

At the same time, he leads the “Ensemble La Chimera”. With this ensemble he has recorded for the label Ma recordings “Buenos Aires Madrigal” (fusion of early Italian madrigals and Argentinean tango) and “Tonos y Tonadas” (fusion of early Spanish “tonos humanos” and folk music from Latinoamerica).

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