Album • 2013

Erasmus - Praise of Folly (English Version)

Jordi Savall • 91 songs • 3 hr 45 min

1

Music: Folias (Imperfectas) [Harp]

Andrew Lawrence-King

1:45

2

Narration I (1): "By Her Mere Presence, Folly Dissipates the Cares of her Audience"

2:15

3

La Folia: "Yo Soy La Locura"

Montserrat Figueras, Andrew Lawrence-King & Pedro Estevan

2:11

4

Narration III (2): "On How Folly Is Prompted to Sing her Own Praises" / Music: Passamezzo Antico

Rolf Lislevand & Thor-Harald Johnsen

0:50

5

Narration VII (3): Folly’s Origins

2:12

6

Recercada quarta sobre la Folia

Jordi Savall, Rolf Lislevand & Michael Behringer

1:29

7

Narration VIII (4): "Her Birthplace, Her Infancy" / Music: Folias de la costa (Harp)

Andrew Lawrence-King

1:39

8

Narration IX (5): "Her Followers" / Music: Folias de la costa (Cont.)

Andrew Lawrence-King

1:21

9

La Gamba In Basso, E Soprano (1564)

Jordi Savall, Fahmi Alqhai, Philippe Pierlot & Rafael Bonavita

1:57

10

Narration X (6): "Folly’s Claims to be Admitted to the Council of the Goddesses / Music: Romanesca

0:53

11

Folía: "Rodrigo Martinez" (From the Villancico of C. M. Palacio No. 12)

Jordi Savall, Arianna Savall, Rolf Lislevand & Michael Behringer

3:10

12

Narration XI (7): "On How She Perpetuates the Human Race" / Music (Cont.): Folía: "Rodrigo Martinez" (From the Villancico of C. M. Palacio No. 12)

Jordi Savall, Arianna Savall & Rolf Lislevand

1:42

13

Narration XII (8): "On How She is the Source of Happiness in Life" / Music (Cont.): Folía: "Rodrigo Martinez" (From the Villancico of C. M. Palacio No. 12)

Jordi Savall, Arianna Savall & Rolf Lislevand

0:55

14

Si habrá en este baldrés (C. M. Palacio No. 179)

Montserrat Figueras & Jordi Ricart

1:29

15

Narration XIII (9): "Of the Connection Between Folly and Childhood and the Second Childhood of Old Age" / Music: Las Vacas (Improvisation Harp)

1:56

16

Diferencias Sobre Las Vacas (Anonymous Improvisation) [C. M. Medinaceli]

1:57

17

Narration XIV (10): "On How She Prolongs Infancy and Halts Old Age" / Music: Folías antiguas (C. M. Palacio No. 121)

Jordi Savall, Rolf Lislevand & Arianna Savall

1:44

18

Narration XVI (11): "Of Folly’s Pre-Eminence in the World" / Music: Harke, harke (Gamba Viol)

2:04

19

Browning my Dear

2:24

20

Narration XIX (12): "Folly Is Necessary to Friendship" / Music: Belle qui tiens ma vie (Harp Improvisation)

Andrew Lawrence-King

1:22

21

Narration XX (13): "There Is No Lasting Marriage Without the Complicity of Folly" / Music (Cont.): Belle qui tiens ma vie (Harp Improvisation)

Andrew Lawrence-King

1:00

22

Juan del Enzina. Cucú, cucú, cucucú! (C. M. Palacio No. 94)

Montserrat Figueras, Joan Cabero & Jordi Ricart

0:56

23

Narration XXI (14): "Folly Is the Blessing of Human Society" / Music: Paduana del re (Mss Venezia)

Jordi Savall & Fahmi Alqhai

1:41

24

Todos los buenos soldados (La Guerra)

1:44

25

Narration XXIII (15): "She Inspires Warfare" / Music: Pavana La Battaglia

1:48

26

Narration XXV (16): "Of the Inferiority of Wisdom in all of Life’s Circumstances" / Music: Vederlo (Improvisation)

Rolf Lislevand & Thor-Harald Johnsen

2:04

27

Narration XXVIII (17): "She Is the Mother of the Arts" / Music: My Lady Carey’s Dompe / Danse Tune English Tradition (Harp)

Andrew Lawrence-King

3:01

28

Saltarello (Mss. Venezia)

Jordi Savall, Fahmi Alqhai & Philippe Pierlot

1:06

29

Narration XXIX (18): "She Claims the Credit for True Wisdom" / Music: Las Vacas (Harp Improvisation)

Andrew Lawrence-King

3:43

30

Narration XXX (19): "On Folly as a Guide Towards Wisdom" / Music: Pavana con su Glosa

Jordi Savall & Eunice Brandao

2:07

31

Narration XXXII (20): "Of the Relationship Between Folly and Ignorance" / Music: Desperada (Elizabethan)

2:10

32

La Spagna (XVth Century)

1:38

33

Narration LV (21): "Folly of Kings" / Music: Las Vacas (Romanesca)

Rolf Lislevand & Thor-Harald Johnsen

3:48

34

Narration LVII – LIX (22): "Folly of Bishops, Cardinals and Supreme Pontiffs" / Music: Estas noches a tan largas (Instrumental - C. M. Calabria No. 26)

Jordi Savall & Sophie Watillon

4:56

35

Narration LXVI (23): "Relationship Between the Christian Religion and Folly" / Music: Patres nostri peccaverunt (C. M. Montecassino No. 2)

3:15

36

Narration LXVII (24): "Folly is the Sovereign Good" / Music: Dios te salve, Cruz preciosa (Instrumental C. M. Palacio No. 434)

2:29

37

Diferencias Sobre ‘Las Vacas’ (Harp)

Jordi Savall, Roberto Gini & Christophe Coin

2:35

38

Narration LXVIII (25): "Farewell to the Reader" / Music: Folias Portuguesas (Harp)

Andrew Lawrence-King

1:28

39

Villancico (Égloga 6): Hoy comamos y bevamos (C. M. Palacio No. 174)

Montserrat Figueras & Joan Cabero

2:29

40

Makam “Muhayyer pesrev” (Ottoman War March) [15th Century]

3:29

41

Narration 1: "Letter by Erasmus. The War Against the Turks" / Music: Taksim (Improvisation Santur)

1:42

42

Saltarello: Une musque de Buscaye (Instrumental)

2:58

43

A Florence la joyose cité (C. M. Montecassino No. 6)

Jordi Savall, Sophie Watillon & Jean-Pierre Canihac

2:01

44

Narration 2, Adage 145: "Fortune Smiles on the Bold" / Music: Fortuna desperata

Jordi Savall & Philippe Pierlot

1:44

45

Audi, benigne Conditor (C. M. Montecassino No. 40)

Pascal Bertin, Lluis Vilamajo & Daniele Carnovich

3:47

46

Taskim & Dance (Ottoman)

Nedyalko Nedyalkov & David Mayoral

2:57

47

Narration 3: "Erasmus of Rotterdam and the Jews" / Music: Las estrellas de los cielos (Sephardic)

Jordi Savall & David Mayoral

1:53

48

Lavava y suspirava (Anonymous Sephardic)

Montserrat Figueras, Andrew Lawrence-King & Driss El Malouni

5:25

49

Malor me bat (Odhecaton, No. 63)

Jordi Savall, Imke David & Lorenz Duftschmid

4:22

50

Benedic anima mea (Ps. 103, 1-3)

Pascal Bertin, Lluis Vilamajo & Daniele Carnovich

3:12

51

Narration 4: "Epitaph for the Peerless Musician Johannes Ockeghem" / Music: Fortune par ta cruaulté

2:05

52

La déploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem

3:55

53

“Latura tu” (Instrumental) [Odhecaton No. 94]

2:23

54

Narration 5: "Panegyric to Philip the Fair" (1504) / Music: Adieu mes amours (Improvisation Harp)

Andrew Lawrence-King

1:34

55

Hélas madame, passamezzo (Henry VIII mss.10)

2:29

56

Narration 6, Adage 3415: "Love Makes Men Musicians" / Music: De tous biens plaine (C. M. Montecassino No. 85)

Jordi Savall & Eunice Brandao

2:36

57

Frottola: In te Domine speravi (C. M. Palacio No. 84)

David Sagastume, Lluis Vilamajo, Furio Zanasi & Jordi Ricart

3:52

58

Narration 7: "Enchiridion. The Importance of the Classics" / Music: Ave maris stella (C. M. Montecassino No. 76) [Harp]

Andrew Lawrence-King

1:45

59

Puzzle-Canon II (Henry VIII mss.)

Jordi Savall, Fahmi Alqhai & Philippe Pierlot

1:40

60

Scaramella va alla guerra

1:57

61

Narration 8, Adage 3001: "War Is Sweet to Those Who Have Not Experienced It" / Music: Fanfares & Tambours Vexilla Regis (C. M. Montecassino No. 106)

7:22

62

Danza Alta (Instrumental) [C. M. Palacio No. 321]

2:04

63

Narration 9: "Erasmus of Rotterdam to his Dear Friend Thomas More on the Publication of Praise of Folly"

2:24

64

Home Again, Market Is Done (Margaret Board Lute Book)

1:54

65

Paduana del Re (Mss. Venezia)

Jordi Savall, Philippe Pierlot & Xavier Diaz-Latorre

3:00

66

Narration 10: "Machiavelli’s The Prince" / Music: Gallarda di Venosa (Harp)

Andrew Lawrence-King

2:02

67

La Spagna, à 5

3:08

68

Narration 11: "Erasmus. Education of the Christian Prince" (1516) / Music: imno XVI (Instrumental)

Jordi Savall & Eunice Brando

2:14

69

Music: Taksim & Makam «Rast Murass’a» (mss. Cantemir No. 214)

7:20

70

Narration 12: "Thomas More’s Utopia: On Justice and Social Prosperity" / Music: Puzzle-canon I

Jordi Savall & Fahmi Alqhai

2:10

71

Adoramus te Domine (Montecassino mss. No. 4)

Andrew Lawrence-King

1:20

72

Narration 13: "Erasmus. The Complaint of Peace" / Music: Mille regrets (Viols)

Jordi Savall, Johanna Valencia & Fahmi Alqhai

2:42

73

Balad: Ya es Tiempo de Recoger

4:39

74

Narration 14: "Letter from Martin Luther to Erasmus (28th March 1519)" / Music: Psalm: A solis ortus cardine (Organ)

Carlos Garcia-Bernalt

1:51

75

Benedictus a 3

Jordi Savall & Fahmi Alqhai

2:29

76

Narration 15: "Letter from Erasmus of Rotterdam to Martin Luther (30th May 1519)" / Music: In Nomine a 5

2:24

77

Vingtcinquiesme Fantasie. A Quatre

1:47

78

Narration 16: "Letter from Martin Luther to Erasmus (15 April 1524)" / Music: Psalm: Christ ist Erstanden (Organ)

Carlos Garcia-Bernalt

2:20

79

Narration 17: "Erasmus of Rotterdam to Luther - On Free Will" (1524) / Music: In Nomine a 5 Free from All

2:18

80

Pavane “La Bataille” (Anonymous Published by Jacques Moderne in “Music de Joie” Lyon, ca. 1540)

2:06

81

Narration 18: "Letter from Erasmus of Rotterdam to King Francis I of France" (16th June 1526) / Music: Pavane 14 (Anonymous Published by Jacques Moderne in “Music de Joie” Lyon, ca. 1540)

1:46

82

Gazel (Ottoman Song)

Derya Türkan, Yurdal Tokcan & Murat Salim Tokaç

3:57

83

Tu pauperum refugium

3:07

84

Narration 19: "Martin Luther to Erasmus, The Bondage of the Will" / Music: Psalm: Christ lag in Todes (Published by Martin Luther in 1533)

Jordi Savall & Carlos Garcia-Bernalt

2:12

85

Christ ist Erstanden à 6

3:19

86

Narration 20, Adage 2100: "Words Are the Physicians of Ailing Souls" / Music: Now o Now

Xavier Diaz-Latorre & Jordi Savall

3:43

87

In Nomine a 5 My Death

2:26

88

Pie Jesu (Requiem)

1:39

89

Narration 21: "Erasmus Dies at Basel" (Stefan Zweig, 1934)

1:33

90

Plangite Pierides (Lament on the Death of Erasmus)

3:53

91

Narration 22: "Erasmus’s Spiritual Legacy" (Stefan Zweig) / Music: Durezze e ligature (Instrumental)

Jordi Savall & Philippe Pierlot

3:02

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