Spain's King Charles V, who was reportedly the first monarch to be styled "His Majesty," makes an ideal subject around which to organize a program of Renaissance music -- examining the way music would have been used during his reign throws a good deal of light on the entire musical culture of the Renaissance. A Fleming from Ghent by birth, Charles ...
This German disc is part of a growing group that attempts to put the sacred music of the Renaissance in the context of its daily and local use rather than treating favorite masses and motets in isolation as aesthetic artifacts. The enterprise at this point is of a specialist nature, but the German group Capella de la Torre here achieves a program ...
A title like Instrumental Music of the 16th and seventeenth century may seem to encompass subject matter far too broad to be done justice on a single album. However, the German-based early music ensemble Capella de la Torre does not attempt to provide an all-inclusive representation of the genre. Rather, the selected works, along with their ...
The title Der Wächter auf der Zinne, or The Guard on the Battlement, refers not to the title of any musical work, but to the concept of this album of north German music from the early seventeenth century, and the attractive little drawing on the cover makes this concept more clear than the title does. The music here, dances and sacred works by ...
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