Alfonso Ferrabosco
Born: 18th January 1543, Bologna, Italy
Died: 12th August 1588, Bologna, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Alfonso Ferrabosco was an Italian composer. While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the growth of the madrigal there, he also composed much sacred music. He also may have been a spy for Elizabeth I while he was in Italy.
His father, Domenico Ferrabosco, and son, Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger were also composers.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Ferrabosco_the_elder
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Holy Week with The Bevan Family Consort
17th Apr 2025
Four members of the British choir of cousins and siblings discuss their new album of music for Lent and Passiontide Attende Domine, released on Signum Classics earlier this month and featuring works by composers including Alfonso Ferrabosco, Girolamo Giacobbi, Mel Bonis and family friend Neil Wright.
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- 3 lessons for the Lyra-Viol (1)
- A Canzonetta (1)
- Allmane (1)
- Come dal ciel (1)
- Consort Music (1)
- Da pacem Domine (1)
- Decantabat populus Israel (1)
- Exaudi, Deus, orationem meam (1)
- Fantasia (5)
- Fantasia a 4 (3)
- Fantasia a 5 (1)
- Fantasia a tres (1)
- Fantasia di sei bassi (1)
- Fantasia in G final (1)
- Fantasia XIV (1)
- Fantasie (1)
- I saw my Lady weeping (1)
- In nomine I a 5 (2)
- In nomine II a 5 (2)
- Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae I ("... Aleph: Quodmodo sedet sola") (2)
- Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae II ("... Zain: Vocavi amicos meos") (1)
- Interdette speranze (2)
- Laboravi in gemitu meo (1)
- Lamentations I (2)
- Lamentations of Jeremiah (1)
- Lesson for lyra-viol No. 17 (1)
- Lesson for lyra-viol No. 19 (1)
- Lesson for lyra-viol No. 8 (1)
- Lesson for lyra-viol No. 9 (1)
- O lux beata trinitas (1)
- Pavan (6)
- Pavan a V (1)
- Pavan IV (1)
- Pavan VI (1)
- Pavane (1)
- Pavin (4)
- Pavinge (1)
- Peccantem me quotidie (1)
- Penelope ever was praised (1)
- Quoniam declinaverunt in me (1)
- Quoniam tu, Domine (1)
- Se lungi dal mio sol (1)
- Sola voi no’l sentite (1)
- Sur la Rousée (Fantasia a 6) (1)
- The Expiration (1)
- The Nightingale so pleasant and so gay (1)
- Thyrsis enjoyed the graces (1)
- Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La (2)
- Vias tuas (1)
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