Costanzo Festa

Costanzo Festa (c. 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.

Les violons et les valois - 2025-06-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Una poesia muta. Art in Early Cinquecento Venice - 2025-01-10T00:00:00.000000Z

A Musical Tour, from Renaissance to Baroque: 20 Years of Cantar alla Viola - 2024-06-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Queen of Hearts: Laments and Songs of Regret for Queens Terrestrial and Celestial - 2024-06-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Ex Tempore - 2024-02-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Blood, Booze & Betrayal - 2023-11-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Tre donne belle - 2023-03-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Arcadelt, Festa - Il Primo Libro Di Madrigali a Tre Voci (1542, Renaissance for Steel Guitar) - 2022-04-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Sacred Music for Emperor Maximilian I - 2019-05-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Gesti antichi e moderni per flauti dolci - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Festa: Mottetti, Vols. 1 & 2 - 2018-10-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Venite amanti, Frottole & Madrigals from the Italian Renaissance - 2018-08-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Segreti accenti: Italian Renaissance Music - 2018-04-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Segreti accenti: Italian Renaissance Music - 2018-04-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Un Cornetto a Roma - 2018-02-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Alla Piffaresca - 2017-09-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Serenissima - Music from Renaissance Europe on Venetian Viols - 2014-08-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Singing Christmas: Vocal Music for Christmas - 2014-03-11T00:00:00.000000Z

The Birth of the Violin - 2013-03-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Corteccia: Musiche fatte nella nozze dello illustrissimo Duca di Fierenze il signor Cosimo de' Medici et della illustrissima consorte sua mad. Leonora da Tolleto - 2012-10-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Luther in Rom - 2012-09-04T00:00:00.000000Z

A Renaissance Wedding Gift - Music of the Medici Codex of 1518 - 2012-07-01T00:00:00.000000Z

A Renaissance Wedding Gift - Music of the Medici Codex of 1518 - 2012-07-01T00:00:00.000000Z

de Févin: Requiem d'Anne de Bretagne - 2011-05-26T00:00:00.000000Z

In Flanders' Fields Vol. 69: La déclinaison de la femme - 2011-05-18T00:00:00.000000Z

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