John Stinson
John Stinson directs the Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century through the secular and sacred polyphony of trecento Italy. His recordings restore madrigals, cacce and ballatas by Jacopo da Bologna, Landini and their circle with clarity, flow and scholarly bite.
With John Griffiths he led the Fourteenth Century Recording Project, drawing musicologists, literary scholars and specialist performers into a single enterprise: bringing works from the age of Machaut, Petrarch and Boccaccio out of the manuscripts and into sound. Built around the core of La Romanesca, the Ensemble gives two- and three-part textures room to breathe. Reviewers hear fine flow and impressive clarity, a mix of research and musical instinct that can convert listeners new to the repertory. The discs move from the courtly songs of Jacopo da Bologna and Giovanni da Firenze through Landini’s love ballatas, many newly recorded, to a reconstructed Florentine Annunciation mass. Sweetness and intricacy, not museum dust: music written for real patrons and real feasts.
John Stinson is featured on the following titles
Two Gentlemen of Verona - The Music of the 14th Century Vol. 1
Two Gentlemen of Verona gathers secular polyphony from the first known generation of Italian composers. This volume presents madrigals, caccie and a motet by Jacopo da Bologna and Giovanni da Firenze.
Performing as Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century
The Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century is a collective of specialist singers and instrumentalists brought together for the Fourteenth Century Recording Project. The ensemble was initially formed around the leading Australian mediaeval ensemble La Romanesca, which was expanded to provide the varied instrumental and vocal combinations required by the repertoire.
I am Music - The Music of the 14th Century Vol. 3
The Music of the Fourteenth Century series presents some of the earliest and most significant polyphonic settings of late medieval lyric poetry. Songs by Francesco Landini, performed by the Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century.
Every Delight and Fair Pleasure - The Music of the 14th Century Vol. 2
Northern Italian music from the second decade of the 14th century to the early 15th. Anonymous Rossi manuscript songs sit beside madrigals and ballatas by Maestro Piero and Bartolino da Padova.
John Stinson also appears on
A Florentine Annunciation - The Music of the 14th Century Vol. 4
The Music of the Fourteenth Century series presents some of the earliest and most significant polyphonic settings of late-medieval lyric poetry. This volume offers music for the Feast of the Annunciation, performed by Les Six.
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Hæc Dies
Easter at Notre Dame, Paris, c.1220. Music for Easter Sunday Mass as it may have been heard at Notre Dame early in the thirteenth century: chant propers, a complete ordinary cycle in two-part Leoninus-style settings, and three-part organum in the style of Perotin.