Elisa La Marca: The Queenes Maskes: A Varietie of Lute Music from the Early English Court

Throughout its Golden Age, England cultivated the masque, an elite entertainment featuring dialogue, song, and dance. As part of these spectacles, courtiers—and at times even the queen herself—often graced the dance floor. But it was hired professionals who provided the musical heart of these productions. Lutenists in particular were especially adept at creating music for any occasion. The dances, variations on popular songs, and fantasias they composed are full of versatility and virtuosity. This recording features lute works by the foremost composers of the Elizabethan-Jacobean era, with music by Dowland, Holborne, Bacheler, Ferrabosco, and other contemporaries who participated in The Queenes Maskes. For many years Elisa La Marca has been much sought after by leading specialist ensembles (Il Giardino Armonico, Il Pomo d’Oro, Les Musiciens du Prince, Zefiro etc.), with which she appears in prestigious locations, the mostly recent being the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Here she presents her first solo album, devoted to one of her favourite repertoires.

1: Sir John Smith
2: A Fancy
3: Pavan 6
4: The Right Honorable the Lady Cliftons Spirit
5: Volt No. 1
6: Volt No. 2
7: The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth, King of Denmarke
8: Forlorn Hope
9: The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex
10: The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth
11: Fantasie 4
12: The Right Honourable the Lady Rich
13: Fantasie 7
14: Pavan 3
15: The First of the Queenes Maskes
16: The Second of the Queenes Maskes
17: The Last of the Queenes Maskes
18: Coranto 6
19: Fantasie 2
20: The Right Honourable Ferdinando, Earle of Darby
21: Mounsier Ballard
22: John Perrichon
23: Coranto 3
24: Pavan 2
25: Monsieurs Almaine

Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco, John Dowland, Daniel Bacheler, Julien Perrichon, Laurencini da Roma, The Knight Of The Lute, Thomas Morley, Anthony Holborne, Robert Ballard

Number of Discs: 1

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