With this disc, the Orlando Consort follows the direction laid down by its successful Food, Wine & Song release of a few years back -- and the group outdoes itself. The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry takes as its musical point of departure the idea of the garden, which was central to the expressive culture of both the Middle Ages and the ...
The music on this disc isn't commonly heard; most of the Requiem by Antoine Brumel, according to the booklet notes, has never been recorded before. That places the music in the category of real finds. For reasons that are imperfectly understood, the Office for the Dead or requiem mass was seldom set polyphonically during the Renaissance, and the ...
The Hilliard Ensemble's Hilliard Live series, now three discs strong with a fourth on the way, has offered superior live performances of Renaissance and Medieval sacred pieces. These male singers mix clarity and a kind of gutsy lyricism that are rare in performances of this music but in their hands seems totally appropriate. The programs are based ...
The title of this album by the Orlando Consort -- Medieval Christmas -- should be taken at face value -- this is not the kind of familiar merry Renaissance music that is sung and played by costumed revelers at madrigal dinners, this is unaccompanied vocal music primarily of the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, presented without ...
This three-CD set from Harmonia Mundi purports on the packaging to offer "the finest masses in musical history." Of course that's an impossible goal, and the liner notes back off from it with various disclaimers. The question to ask about a set like this, assembled from existing Harmonia Mundi releases going back to 1986, is whether it either ...
The Missa Et ecce terrae motus of Antoine Brumel represents something of a black belt for choirs specializing in music of the High Renaissance -- until Tallis' motet Spem in alium came along, this 12-voice mass was the most grandly conceived work of Renaissance choral music, with a great variety of textures deployed in service of an especially ...
This collection of early German, Italian, and French motets and songs arranged for clavicytherium, a predecessor of the harpsichord, is likely to be of primary interest to diehard fans of early music. These pieces are taken from a single, mid-sixteenth century manuscript, the "Tablature of Johannes von Lublin," a Polish organist and theorist. ...
Upon its original release in 2001, Fretwork's Ottaviano Dei Petrucci: Harmonice Musices Odehecaton was widely acclaimed as an instant classic, and it was the first recording in 35 years to address its very important topic, the first volume of polyphonic music ever printed. Ottaviano Dei Petrucci was the inventor of a new and stylish kind of music ...
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