Concert Programs
USC Collegium Musicum: Argentum et aurum concert program
The USC Collegium Musicum presents “Argentum et aurum”: Music for the Medici Popes, led by faculty member Adam Knight Gilbert.
The program features music composed and performed for the Medici Popes Leo X from 1513-1610, including Henricus Isaac’s mysterious Missa Argentum et aurum.
Program
Ben venga, Maggio
Anonymous
text Angelo Poliziano
Chaminata
Anonymous
Ecco’l Messia
Anonymous
text Lucrezia Tornabuoni de Medici
Chui dicese e non l’amare
Anonymous
La spagna a 2
Francesco da Milano
(1497-1543)
Vostre bruit et grand fame
Alexander Agricola
(1446-1506)
Gamba gagliarda
Antonio Gardane
Le despourveu infortuné
Firmin Caron
O maligno e duro cuore
Serafino Razzi (1531-1613)
text Lorenzo de Medici
Madre de peccatori
Razzi
La folia
Anonymous
Quid retribuam tibi Leo
Henricus Isaac
(ca. 1450-1517)
Acknowledgements
Generous scholarship support for the members of the USC Collegium Musicum is provided by the Colburn Foundation. We are also grateful for generous scholarship support from the Rutherford Fund, established by our dear late friend and donor Bill Rutherford. Special thanks to our generous friends and donors Tom Rosenthal, Bob Attiyeh and Mike Rosell. Finally, we would like to offer a very special thanks to Sharon Lilly for her continued generous donation to the Thornton Early Music Program.
This concert is made possible with generous support from the USC Office of Research Collaboration Group, “Collaborations in History, Art, Religion, and Music (CHARM)” and from the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. For more information click here.
Ensemble
Eleanor Walters, voice
Ryan McWilliams, voice
Tamzin Elliot, voice
Mana Azima, harp
Janina Kalisnik, lute
Hejun Yang, virginal
Adam Gilbert*, recorder
Rotem Gilbert*, recorder
Jason Yoshida*, viheula
* denotes Thornton Early Music faculty