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Costanzo Festa

voc, 1490-1545 IT, Piedmont
Singer / Composer of Classical

Costanzo Festa (ca. 1485–1490 – 10 April 1545) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. While he is best known for his madrigals, he also wrote sacred vocal music. He was the first native Italian polyphonist of international renown, and with Philippe Verdelot, one of the first to write madrigals, in the infancy of that most popular of all sixteenth-century Italian musical forms.

     
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Three Contrapuncti On ‘La Spagna’: I. Centesima Terza on Serenissima - Music from Renaissance Europe on Venetian Viols by The Rose Consort Of Viols
Three Contrapuncti On ‘La Spagna’: II. Settuagesima Settima on Serenissima - Music from Renaissance Europe on Venetian Viols by The Rose Consort Of Viols
Three Contrapuncti On ‘La Spagna’: III. Nonagesima Terza on Serenissima - Music from Renaissance Europe on Venetian Viols by The Rose Consort Of Viols
Madonna, io mi consumo on El Fuego: Renaissance Music from Italy and Spain by La Compañia & Danny Lucin
32 Variations on "La Spagna": Contrapunto 46 à 4. Cantus firmus au ténor on Festa: 32 Variations on "La Spagna" by Costanzo Festa, Paul Van Nevel & Huelgas Ensemble
32 Variations on "La Spagna": Contrapunto 105 à 5. Cantus firmus à la quatrième voix on Festa: 32 Variations on "La Spagna" by Costanzo Festa, Paul Van Nevel & Huelgas Ensemble
Quando ritrovo la mia pastorella on NPR Milestones of the Millennium: The Renaissance in Music by Capella Antiqua München, Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel, Lutz Kirchhof
Fiorenza on Corteccia: Musiche fatte nella nozze dello illustrissimo Duca di Fierenze il signor Cosimo de' Medici et della illustrissima consorte sua mad. Leonora da Tolleto by Gabriel Garrido
Regem archangelorum / Alma, che scarca dal corporeo velo on Canzoni e Danze by Piffaro, Joan Kimball & Robert Wiemken
Contrappunto 63 on Ex Tempore by The Italian Consort

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Discography
Title Artist Year Type
MadrigaliCostanzo Festa, Noël Akchoté2015Album
Lamentation (Complete Lamentations Of JeremiahCostanzo Festa2007Album
La Spagna: 32 ContrapuntiCostanzo Festa, Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel2003Album
Magnificat - Mass Parts - Motets - MadrigalsCostanzo Festa, Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel1994Album
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