Various Composers - La Nobiltà di Milano (Bruce Dickey)

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1. Giovanni Paolo Cima - Concerti Ecclesiastici: No. 40, Assumpta est Maria
2. Francesco Rognoni Taeggio - Messa, salmi intieri e spezzati: O Rex Gloriae
3. Andrea Cima - Concerti Ecclesiastici: No. 51, Capriccio d'Andrea Cima
4. Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio - Canzoni a 4 e 8 voci: Quemadmodum desiderat
5. Francesco Rognoni Taeggio - Il primo libro de madrigali: Intenerite voi lagrime mie
6. Francesco Rognoni Taeggio - Il primo libro de madrigali: Or che'l mio vago scoglio
7. Francesco Rognoni Taeggio - Il primo libro de madrigali: Dialogo, Filli e Tirsi
8. Andrea Cima - Partito de ricercari & canzoni alla francese: No. 15, La Scabrosa
9. Agostino Soderini - Canzoni a 4 e 8 voci: Egredimini filiae Sion
10. Giuseppe Gallo - Sacri operis musici alternis: No. 68, Veni in hortum meum
11. Cesario Gussago - Sonate a quattro, sei et otto: No. 13, Sonata La Badina
12. Agostino Soderini - Canzoni per sonar a 4 e 8 voci: Ipse sum desponsata
13. Francesco Rognoni Taeggio - Il primo libro de madrigali: O dolcezze amarissime d’amore
14. Francesco Rognoni Taeggio - Il primo libro de madrigali: Felice chi vi mira, madrigale a 5 (prima parte)
15. Francesco Rognoni Taeggio - Il primo libro de madrigali: Ben ebbe amica stella (seconda parte)
16. Francesco Rognoni Taeggio - Selva de varii passaggi: Vestiva i colli, madrigale da Palestrina passaggiato
17. Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio - Canzoni a 4 e 8 voci: La Niguarda
18. Agostino Soderini - Sacrorum cantionum octopus et novem vocibus: Saule, Saule, quid me persequeris?
19. Giuseppe Gallo - Magnficat anima mea a 9

The Breathtaking Collective

Cappella Mariana

Bruce Dickey, conductor

Date: 2026

Label: Passacaille

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This recording spotlights the often-overlooked musical center of Milan under Spanish Habsburg rule. Following the demise of the Sforza dynasty in 1532, Milan transitioned to a Spanish Viceroyalty. Despite losing its former political dominance, a period of relative stability between major plagues allowed cultural life to flourish under Archbishop Federico Borromeo's patronage. This album presents a diverse sacred and secular soundscape, exploring the uniquely Milanese "canzon-motteto" dialogue between voices and instruments alongside double-choir motets and canzonas. It features hyper-expressive madrigals by violin virtuoso Francesco Rognoni Taeggio, complemented by works from Giovan Paolo, Andrea Cima, and Giuseppe Gallo.

Bruce Dickey is a pioneering American early music scholar, educator, and master of the cornetto. Initially trained as a trumpeter, he refined his expertise in early music and musicology at Indiana University and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where he subsequently served as a long-term professor of cornetto. Dickey has performed and recorded extensively with prominent early music figures and leads his own acclaimed ensemble, Concerto Palatino. A globally sought-after instructor of seventeenth-century performance practice, he has taught across Europe, North America, and Japan. In recognition of his foundational research and monumental contributions to historical performance, he received the Christopher Monk Award in 2000.