Michele Pesenti

To be distinguished from the blind keyboard composer Martino Pesenti, (Venice, c. 1600 โ€“ c. 1648)

Michele Pesenti (Verona ca. 1470โ€“after 1524) was an Italian composer and lutenist who served the House of Este at Ferrara. Pesenti was one of the most lively and inventive of the so-called frottola composers, including Marchetto Cara and Bartolomeo Tromboncino.[1]

Selected recordings

  • "Ha' tu veduto un mio vitellin bianco" on La Favola di Orfeo 1494, reconstruction of a Florentine entertainment, by Huelgas Ensemble, dir. Paul Van Nevel. Seon.
  • frottola: "Non mi doglio gia d'amore" on Banchetti Musicali a la Corte Estense. by La Bottega musicale Ferrarese. Bongiovanni GB 5001 (LP) 1985
  • frottola: "Dal lecto me levava" on Barzellette - Frottole Italiane del Cinquecento. by Retrover dir. Markus Tapio, Opus111 30-243 1998
  • villota: "Quando lo pomo vien da lo pomaro" on Cantar alla Pavana Canzoni, Frottole, Villotte e Madrigali dell'Apografo Miscellaneo Marciano (1526) (music from fragments in the Marciana Library, Venice) by Consort Veneto dir. Giovanni Toffano, Tactus 520002
  • "Alhor quando arivava" on Cigni, Capre, Galli e Grilli. by Fortuna Ensemble dir. Roberto Cascio, Tactus 460301 1998
  • instrumental: "Un cavalier di Spagna" on Musica dell'epoca di Cristoforo Colombo
  • "Che faralla che diralla - Uscirallo, resterallo" on Luther in Rom by Concerto Romano dir. Alessandro Quarta, Christophorus Records CHR 77361 2012

References

  1. โ†‘ Nino Pirrotta, Elena Povoledo Music and theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi 1982 p31