The Missarum cum quinque, sex et octo vocibus, liber primus, printed in Venice, by the heir of Girolamo Scotto, in 1575, contains four masses: Io son ferito, ahi lasso and Mort et fortune for five voices; La Sol Fa Mi Re Ut for six voices and Domine in virtute tua for eight voices.

The first two masses of the collection, that are here recorded for the first time, have some formal traits in common: both are for five voices; both adopt the same compositional procedure or the technique of “parody”. The mass Io son ferito, ahi lasso derives its musical substance from the incipit of the madrigal of the same name, for five voices, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c a 1525-1594), published in the collection The third book of Muses for five voices composed by different excellent musicians with a madrigal for six, and a dialogue for eight voices ( Venice, Antonio Gardano, 1561) whilw he mass “Mort et fortunes” (second in order of appearance in the collection) is based instead on the initial beats of the chanson of Nicolas Gombert (c a 1500- 1556) Mort et fortune pour quoy m’avez-vous laissé, published in the anthology Le Paragon des chansons contenant plusieurs nouvelles et delectables chansons que oncques ne furent imprimées au singulier prouffit et delectation des musiciens ( Lyon, J. Moderne, 1538).

«Io son ferito, ahi lasso» – «Mort et fortune» dal
Missarum cum quinque, sex et octo vocibus, liber primus
(Venezia, Erede di G. Scotto, 1575)
Edizione critica a cura di Giovanna Vizzola
(Unda Maris Edizioni)

Tracklist

Missa «Io son ferito, ahi lasso»
Kyrie 03:30
1. Kyrie, eleison
2. Christe, eleison
3. Kyrie, eleison

Gloria 04:59
4. Gloria in excelsis Deo
5. Qui tollis peccata mundi

Credo 08:35
6. Credo in unum Deum
7. Crucifixus
8. Et in Spiritum Sanctum

Sanctus 03:05
9. Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth
10. Hosanna in excelsis
11. Benedictus
12. Hosanna in excelsis

Agnus Dei 02:59
13. Agnus Dei qui tolli… miserere nobis
14. Agnus Dei qui tollis… dona nobis pacem

Missa «Mort et fortune»
Kyrie 02:56
1. Kyrie, eleison
2. Christe, eleison
3. Kyrie, eleison

Gloria 05:04
4. Gloria in excelsis Deo
5. Qui tollis peccata mundi

Credo 08:39
6. Credo in unum Deum
7. Crucifixus
8.Et in Spiritum Sanctum

Sanctus 03:42
9. Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth
10. Hosanna in excelsis
11. Benedictus
12. Hosanna in excelsis

Agnus Dei 03:12
13. Agnus Dei qui tolli… miserere nobis
14. Agnus Dei qui tollis… dona nobis pacem


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BIOGRAPHY

PIETRO VINCI: Undoubtedly each historical epoch maintains discriminating attitudes towards the musicians of the past, sometimes backed up by superficial and hasty judgments. While many composers of the last few centuries in recent times have been rediscovered and revaluated through performances or recordings of their works others, though important in the period in which they lived, have been confined to the dark corners of history and therefore completely forgotten. The life and work of the Sicilian composer and teacher Pietro Vinci (c a 1525-1584) are shaped in such a way as to fit, in many respects, into this sort of framework. It certainly cannot be said that the attention paid so far by scholars and performers to this musician has been prompt and at all events adequate to the importance that he would have required, bearing in mind that he was among the principal composers of polyphonic music in the 16th century, as well as being the founder of the “Sicilian polyphonic School.” Nor does his musical production, which includes over twenty books of masses, motets, madrigals and ricercari, deserve the treatment that is assigned to secondhand things. He does not deserve it, first of all, because he is not second-hand. On the contrary, he must be set in the sixteenth-century European firmament of music as a star of the first greatness, worthy of being placed beside some of the greatest composers of the time: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.

COLLEGIUM VOCALE “NOVA ARS CANTANDI”
Alessandro Carmignani, Cantus, controtenore
Raffaele Giordani, Altus, tenore
Fabio Furnari, Tenor, tenore
Paolo Fanciullacci, Quintus, tenore
Marcello Vargetto, Bassus, basso
Ivana Vallotti, organo
Giovanni Acciai, direttore

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