This CD, a recording of a live performance by Paul van Nevel's choir of mixed voices, Huelgas Ensemble, features a program that is fraught with peril -- large-scale a cappella Renaissance music with 12 to 40 individual parts. To make it through such a treacherous program without a tonal train wreck would be an achievement, but the ensemble ...
Music from the Time of Tilman Riemenschneider offers a pleasant hour of mostly instrumental (and mostly recorder-based) short pieces of the Renaissance for those who desire such a thing. The two German groups involved, Il Curioso and the Hedos-Ensemble, play engagingly, and recorder player Bernhard Böhm gets in some very fancy fingerwork on a few ...
The unusual name of Valentin Bakfark may strike some English speakers whimsically as sounding like a cross between a sound made by an auto in need of a tune up and another thing that -- well -- defies polite discussion. Nevertheless, Bakfark was a Transylvanian composer who was a giant among lutenists in the sixteenth century; his fame spread from ...
This recording grew out of the Monteverdi Choir's actual pilgrimage from southwest France to Santiago de Compostela in 2004, during which it performed the music in the churches where pilgrims making the journey would have heard it. The acoustics of the recording convincingly convey the variety of settings in which the music would have been heard; ...
Cristóbal de Morales is not the best-known of Renaissance composers; he stands somewhat in the shadow of his younger contemporary Victoria, who sounds much more distinctively Spanish. The Missa Queramus cum pastoribus that forms this album's centerpiece may have received its debut recording when the present disc was issued in full-price form on ...
Anyone looking for a fine mix of traditional carols and less familiar but essential Christmas music will find that this 2007 release by Andrew Nethsingha and the Gloucester Cathedral Choir is well-balanced in its program, highly polished in its performances, and satisfying for its splendid sound. Spanning five centuries, I Saw Three Ships opens ...
Italian ensemble Cantica Symphonia consists of a chamber choir and a small instrumental group, but this disc features only an a cappella vocal quartet. The singers, soprano Laura Fabris, tenors Giuseppe Maletto and Fabio Furnari, and baritone Marco Scavazza, perform music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries written in honor of the Virgin, as ...
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