Madrigals: El Grillo / Margot labourez les vignes

[Martin Jonas]

I have just made an instrumental recording of two very famous renaissance madrigals:

1) El grillo è buon cantore (Josquin des Prez, 1450/1455-1521)

2) Margot, labourez les vignes (Jacques Arcadelt, 1507-1568)

Both transcribed for SATB voices by Steven Hendricks from his SCA music page at (and also at loads of other places much the same -- these are by no means obscure songs):

http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/

Recorded as mandolin quartets:

Soprano: 1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin
Alto: Ozark tenor guitar
Tenor: Mid-Missouri M-111 octave mandolin
Bass: Troubadour Lionheart bouzouki

El Grillo:


Margot, labourez les vignes:
[MP3=2]http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=103640&d=1371828154[/MP3]

Same recordings with pictures:



Martin