Diego Ortiz - Glosas (Roberto Gini; Guido Andreolli; Mara Galassi)

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Composer: Diego Ortiz

1. Recercada Fantasia Primera
2. Recercada Fantasia Segunda
3. Recercada Fantasia Tercera
4. Recercada Fantasia Quarta
5. Recercada Primera sobre La Spagna
6. Recercada Segunda sobre La Spagna
7. Recercada Tercera sobre La Spagna
8. Recercada Quarta sobre La Spagna
9. Recercada Quinta sobre La Spagna
10. Recercada Sesta sobre La Spagna
11. Recercada Primera sobre O felici occhi miei
12. Recercada Segunda sobre O felici occhi miei
13. Recercada Tercera sobre O felici occhi miei
14. Recercada Quarta, que es una quinta boz, sobre O felici occhi miei
15. Recercada Primera sobre Doulce memorie
16. Recercada Segunda sobre Doulce memorie
17. Recercada Tercera sobre Doulce memorie
18. Recercada Quarta, que es una quinta boz, sobre Doulce memorie
19. Recercada Primera sobre Tenores Italianos, Pass'e mezzo antico
20. Recercada Segunda sobre Tenores Italianos, Pass'e mezzo moderno
21. Recercada Tercera sobre Tenores Italianos
22. Recercada Quarta sobre Tenores Italianos, Guardame las vacas
23. Recercada Quinta sobre Tenores Italianos, Pass'e mezzo antico
24. Recercada Sesta sobre Tenores Italianos
25. Recercada Settima sobre Tenores Italianos, Romanesca
26. Recercada Ottava sobre Tenores Italianos, Guardame las vacas
27. Quinta pars sobre l'Aria di Ruggiero
28. Diferencias sobre el Canto del Caballero
29. Recercada sobre Donne leggiadre e belle (after Jacques Arcadelt)
30. Recercada sobre Con lagrime e sospir (after Jacques Arcadelt)
31. Recercada sobre Ancidetemi pur (after Jacques Arcadelt)
32. Recercada sobre Ancor che col partire (after Cipriano De Rore)

Roberto Gini, bass & tenor viols

Guido Andreolli, virginal & organ

Mara Galassi, harps

Date: 2026

Label: Aulicus Classics

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Diego Ortiz (c. 1510 – c. 1576) was a prominent Spanish composer and music theorist who served as maestro di cappella for the Spanish Viceroys in Naples before joining the Colonna Court in Rome. He is best known for publishing the Trattado de Glosas (1553), a seminal masterpiece and the first instruction manual on ornamentation for the viola da gamba. Ortiz also composed Musices liber primus (1565), a conservative collection of sacred polyphonic vocal works dedicated to his Neapolitan employer. Notably, recent scholarship suggests Ortiz's striking resemblance to a prominent figure in Paolo Veronese’s famous painting, The Wedding at Cana.

Italian violist, cellist, and conductor Roberto Gini is a distinguished figure in historical performance practice. After studying under pioneers like Jordi Savall and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gini collaborated with renowned early music ensembles, including Hesperion XX, before founding his own ensemble, CONCERTO, in 1985. A prolific recording artist, he has dedicated much of his career to pioneering research and recordings of Claudio Monteverdi and other 17th-century masters. Gini's influential pedagogical career spans decades, featuring major professorships in Milan, Geneva, and Parma, alongside innovative research laboratories that bridge historical scholarship with world-class, award-winning musical performance.