Cancionero: Music for the Spanish Court (1470 -- 1520) is the first release by the Dufay Collective for the Avie Records label, which acts as a clearinghouse for artist-made recordings. Cancionero was made in 1997 on the Dufay's own dime after its relationship with the Chandos label reached the point of no return. That the Dufay Collective went ...
Music for Alfonso the Wise by redoubtable English period instrument ensemble the Dufay Collective is not a collection of usual suspect Cantigas de Santa Maria, but attempts to re-create the lost heritage of the secular music that surrounded Alfonso X's court during his reign. Utilizing instruments reconstructed from miniatures, paintings, and ...
Several aspects of the Dufay Collective's rendition of the twelfth century The Play of Daniel (Ludus Danielis) are radically different from past outings of the esteemed period medieval band. There is a whole busload of singers, though for such a primarily vocal work like The Play of Daniel, this makes sense; however, on the inside of the booklet ...
Dietrich Buxtehude, unlike J.S. Bach, was never employed as a composer of sacred music, but he wrote a good deal of it anyway. As a result, much of it has been neglected. That's too bad, for what has appeared on disc thus far shows a composer as distinctive as that revealed by the big organ masterpieces that make up the usual Buxtehude fare. ...
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