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Christmas Songs Around the World / Arsys Bourgogne Choir

1 CD / Naïve / 2012-11-13

Works: Arthur Warrell: A Merry Christmas, carol setting for chorus; Christmas Traditional: Il est né, le divin enfant (French); Les anges dans nos campagnes (French), carol (AKA Angels We Have Heard On...
Conductors: Cao, Pierre
Ensemble: ; Arsys Bourgogne Choir

A thrilling collection of Christmas Songs from several countries and languages, performed a cappella by France's leading professional choir - Arsys Bourgogne. Christmas Songs from...continue...
Recording information: Chalon-sur-Saône (12/22/2010-12/23/2010)....continue...

L'Italie Renaissance - works by Castigione, il Magnifico, de Marales, Titen-Viva Napoli

6 CD / Naïve / 2012-06-26

Works: Anonymous: Ah partiale (Libro del Cortegiano); Mazzacrocha (Il Libro del Cortegiano); O mischini (Il Libro del Cortegiano); El Servo che t'adora (Libro del Cortegiano); Tenta aluora (Il Libro del Cor...
Conductors: Raisin-Dadre, Denis
Ensemble: Doulce Mémoire

Doulce Mémoire is synonymous, above all, with energy and team spirit, and with the delight of coming together with the common aim of taking a...continue...

1600 / Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

1 CD / Naïve / 2012-02-28

Works: Anonymous: Fantaisie for string ensemble "Les pleurs d'Orphée ayant perdu sa femme"; Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon no 1 ("La Spiritata"), for 4 parts, C. 186; Tarquinio Merula: La Chremasca (Libro I...
Conductors: Alessandrini, Rinaldo
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano

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This collection focuses largely on works by lesser-known composers such as Zanetti, Merula and Salvatore, but includes two standout works in the "Fantaisie" attributed...continue...
Recording information: Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra, Rome, Italy (03/2011)....continue...

Odisea Negra / The Sea of Memories / Ivan Garcia; Ablaye Cissoko; Teresa Paz; tato Ruiz

1 CD / Naïve / 2011-10-25

Works: Santiago de Murcia: Jácaras de la costa; Carmito Gamboa: La Josa; Ablaye Cissoko: Ali; Douna; Gaspar Fernandes: Eso rigor e repente (That sudden hardship), for chorus; Dame albriçia mano An...
Conductors: Egüez, Eduardo
Ensemble: La Chimera

Following "La Voce di Orfeo", this is the second recording of La Chimera for Naïve. This recording of traditional & ancient songs from Africa and...continue...
Recording information: Iglesia de la Asunción, Sajazarra (La Rioja), Spain (07/2010)....continue...

24 Ways Upon the Bells

1 CD / Naïve / 2010-04-27

Works: Christian Rivet: L'heure. Scotch Cap (after John Playford), for guitar; Le quart. Scots Rant (after John Playford), for guitar; I can not Keepe my Wife at Home (after John Playford), for lute; Light ...
Performers: Rivet, Christian

Recording information: Musée de la musique, Cité de la musique, Paris, France....continue...

D'Helfer: Requiem; Desprez: Messe de l'Homme Armé

2 CD / Naïve / 2009-11-17

Works: Spoken Word: Funeral drum; Funeral march; Funeral oration for Charles III of Lorraine; Gregorian Chant: Subvenite sancti Dei, antiphon in mode 4; Missa Aeterna Christi Munera (Mass for the Feast fo S...
Performers: Bernfeld, Jay; Chamboux, Jean
Conductors: Fabre-Garrus, Bernard
Ensemble: ; Les Sacqueboutiers

Multi award-winning French vocal ensemble, A Sei Voci, present a programme of music by Charles D'Helfer and Josquin des Prez. Recorded live in 1993 during...continue...

Marenzio: Madrigali

2 CD / Naïve / 2009-11-17

Works: Luca Marenzio: Madrigals for 4 voices, Book 1 (Madrigali...libro primo a 4 voci); Basciami basciami mille mille volte, madrigal for 5 voices (Il quinto libro de madrigali a 5 voci); Satiati Amor ch'a...
Performers: Alessandrini, Rinaldo
Conductors: Alessandrini, Rinaldo
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano

The Gramophone Award winning release of Luca Marenzio's Madrigals performed by Concerto Italiano under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini. The disc that earned Alessandrini and...continue...

Baroque Voix\Voices Vol 25 - Gesualdo: O dolorosa gioia, madrigals; Monte, Luzzaschi, Montella, Nenna / Alessandrini, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2009-08-25

Works: Philippe de Monte: Di mie dogliose note, madrigal for 5 voices; Pomponio Nenna: Occhi miei che vedeste (Il Quarto Libro de Madrigali à cinque voci. Venetia, 1609); Giovani Domenico Montella: S...
Performers: Galassi, Mara
Conductors: Alessandrini, Rinaldo
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano

"Concerto Italiano, founded and directed by Renaissance and Baroque specialist Rinaldo Alessandrini, is an outstanding vocal and instrumental ensemble... The individuality of the members and...continue...

La Voce di Orfeo / Egüez, Zanasi, La Chimera, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2009-06-30

Works: Francesco Rasi: Filli mia, Filli dolce; E si lieto il mio core, madrigal; Dove, misero, mai; Un guardo ohime ch'io moro, madrigal; Torquato Tasso: Amor l'ali m'impenna, madrigal; Sigismondo d'India: ...
Performers: Fernandez, Francois; Zanasi, Furio
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Ensemble: La Chimera

Includes sinfonia (egüz) / io son amante di un crin aurato by various composers....continue...

Esprit - Sacré

1 CD / Naïve / 2009-05-26

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater in F minor, RV 621; John Dowland: Second Booke of Songes or Ayres; Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244; Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; George Freder...
Performers: Lesne, Gérard; Mingardo, Sara; Piau, Sandrine
Conductors: ; Krivine, Emmanuel; Niquet, Hervé; Spering, Christoph; Malgoire, Jean-Claude; Alessandrini, Rinaldo
Ensemble: ; Accentus; Concerto Italiano; Das Neue Orchester; La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy; Le Concert spirituel

Italia 1600 Argentina 1900 / Verónica Cangemi, Una Stella Ensemble, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2008-11-25

Works: Nicola Porpora: Polifemo, opera; Gli orti esperidi, opera; Antonio Vivaldi: Catone in Utica, RV 705; La Fida Ninfa; Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 9; Astor Piazzolla: Milonga en ay menor, vocal ...
Performers: Cangemi, Veronica
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Ensemble: Una Stella Ensemble

"this is not a "historical performance," although it draws on the insights developed in that field. It is something better: a Baroque recital in which...continue...

Francesco da Milano: Lute Works / Hopkinson Smith

1 CD / Naïve / 2008-11-25

Works: Francesco Canova da Milano: Fantasia no 30 dal primo tono, for lute; Recercar no 30 dal quinto tono, for lute (Ness no 15); Fantasia no 64 dal secondo tono, for lute; Saltarello, for lute; Recercar n...
Performers: Smith, Hopkinson

10 ans et toujours Naïve! - Mahler, Schubert, Vivaldi, Bach, etc / Alessandrini, Korcia, et al

2 CD / Naïve / 2008-10-28

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor; Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957; Antonio Vivaldi: Orlando furioso, opera in 3 acts, RV 728; Nisi Dominus in G minor, RV 608; La verità in cim...
Performers: Bertagnolli, Gemma; Chamayou, Bertrand; Desert, Claire; Gastinel, Anne; Greilsammer, David; Jaroussky, Philippe; Khachatryan, Sergey; Kopatchinskaya, Patricia; Korcia, Laurent; Kozena, Magdalena; Pia...
Conductors: Equilbey, Laurence; Spinosi, Jean-Christophe; Krivine, Emmanuel; Alessandrini, Rinaldo; Rousset, Christophe; ; Minkowski, Marc; Raisin-Dadre, Denis; Marchi, Alessandro de; Sokhiev, Tugan
Ensemble: ; Concerto Italiano; Ensemble Kapsberger; Les Talens Lyriques; Matheus Ensemble; Quatuor Mosaïques

Du Caurroy: Requiem des rois de France, Les meslanges / Doulce Memoire

2 CD / Naïve / 2008-10-28

Works: Claude Goudimel: Psalm 130; Psalm 120; Eustache du Caurroy: Trenteseptiesme Fantasie. A Cinq; Missa pro defunctis, for chorus; Meslanges de la musique, 10 psalm settings, 35 chansons, and 15 noels fo...
Conductors: Raisin-Dadre, Denis
Ensemble: Doulce Mémoire

Dowland: Ayres / Gérard Lesne, Ensemble Orlando Gibbons

1 CD / Naïve / 2008-05-27

Works: John Dowland: Can she excuse, P 42; If that a sinner's sighs be angel's food, sacred song for 4 voices & lute (A Pilgrimes Solace); A Pilgrimes Solace; Come Again; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Firste ...
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Ensemble: Orlando Gibbons Viol Ensemble

Unforgettable - Music from Movies

2 CD / Naïve / 2008-02-26

Works: Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Lieder (5), Op. 41; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; La forza del destino; La traviata; Wolfgang Amad...
Performers: Biret, Idil; Bruns, Peter; Jando, Jeno; Kraft, Norbert [Producer/Guitar]; Kraus, Michael [Tenor/Baritone Vocal]; Mallas-Godlewska, Ewa; Marin-Degor, Sophie; Monteyrol, Laurence; Ottensamer, Ernst; Ra...
Conductors: Kosler, Zdenek; Mund, Uwe; Lombard, Alain; Morandi, Pier G.; Malgoire, Jean-Claude; Halász, Michael; Teutsch, Karol; Lenárd, Ondrej; Bramall, Anthony; Rahbari, Alexander; Nelson, John; Yabl...
Ensemble: ; Les Talens Lyriques; Vienna Mozart Academy

Music from the films Apocalypse Now, Fantasia, Shine, Pretty Woman, Platoon, Out of Africa, Farinelli, Chariots of Fire and many more are here, with unforgettable...continue...
Personnel: Derek Lee Ragin (vocals); Laurence Monteyrol (soprano); Norbert Kraft (guitar); Fazil Say, Idil Biret, Jenö Jandó (piano)....continue...

El Fuego / Les Sacqueboutiers

1 CD / Naïve / 2008-01-29

Works: Mateo Flecha: El fuego; La Justa, ensalada for 4 voices; La guerra, ensalada for 4 voices; La Negrina, ensalada for 4 voices; Francisco Correa de Arrauxo: Tiento de 6° Tono, Sobre la Batalla de M...
Performers: Bouvard, Yasuko; Canihac, Jean-Pierre; Eguez, Eduardo
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Ensemble: Les Sacqueboutiers

The ensalada, as described by Juan Diaz Rengifo in his Arte poetica Espanola (1592), is a composition with four-line stanzas in which all sorts of...continue...

Europe Baroque - Handel, Vivaldi, et al

4 CD / Naïve / 2007-11-20

Works: George Frederick Handel: Recorder Sonata in D minor, Op.1/9a, HWV 367a; Sonata for Oboe and Basso Continuo in F major "Hautb. Solo del Sr. Hendel"; Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in A minor, ...
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Ensemble: Ensemble Amarillis

In this 4CD set, the internationally renowned Amarillis ensemble present a delightful survey of European music from the baroque period of the XVIIth and XVIIIth...continue...

Requiem[s] - Mozart, Brahms, Hasse, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2007-10-30

Works: Eustache du Caurroy: Missa pro defunctis, for chorus; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626; Johannes Brahms: German Requiem, Op. 45; Johann Adolf Hasse: Requie...
Performers: Kruysen, Bernard; Lee, Noel [Piano]
Conductors: Raisin-Dadre, Denis; Spering, Christoph; Dombrecht, Paul; Piquemal, Michel; Edison, Noel; Morandi, Pier G.; Cochereau, Jean-Marc
Ensemble: ; Doulce Mémoire ; Il Fondamento

A compilation disc comprising extracts from Requiems by Mozart, Faure, Dvorak, Berlioz, Verdi, Brahms, Ravel, Cherubini, Durufle, Dusapin and more. This sensational compilation is now...continue...

Hopkinson Smith Album - Bach, etc / Banchini, Dieltens

1 CD / Naïve / 2007-06-26

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B minor, BWV 1002; Suite for solo cello no 6 in D major, BWV 1012; Sonata for Violin solo no 1 in G minor, BWV 1001; John Dowland: The Frog Gall...
Performers: Banchini, Chiara; Courvoisier, David; Dieltiens, Roel; Plantier, David; Smith, Hopkinson

"Here Hopkinson Smith, the poet of pluck, takes up five different kinds of lutes plus a vihuela de mano and a baroque guitar, each of...continue...

Messe des Jésuites de Pékin - Amiot, et al / Frisch, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2007-06-26

Works: Joseph-Marie Amiot: Musique sacrée; Work(s); Communion; Deuxième divertissement chinois; Ave Maria; Charles d'Ambleville: Mass; Simon Boyleau: Per la Natività della Beata Vergine; Teod...
Performers: Frisch, Jean-Christophe; Picard, Francois
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Ensemble: Ensemble Meihua Fleur de Prunus; Musique des Lumières XVIII-21

Du Caurroy: Les Meslanges / Dadre, Doulce Mémoire

1 CD / Naïve / 2006-02-21

Works: Eustache du Caurroy: Meslanges de la musique, 10 psalm settings, 35 chansons, and 15 noels for 4-6 voices & instruments
Performers: Bolton, Florence; Bourin, Véronique; Frank, Elsa; Gaugler, Luc; Kandel, Lucien; Olry, Guillaume; Pacquier, Judith; Papasergio, Jérémie; Pontus, Marc; Primard, Hugues; Raisin-Dadr...
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Ensemble: Doulce Mémoire

Mélancolie

2 CD / Naïve / 2006-02-21

Works: Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei; Gabriel Fauré: Elégie for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 24; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Concerto for Piano no 21 in C major...
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Anorga, Solange; Bavouzet, Jean-Efflam; Bayo, Maria; Cabasso, Laurent; Chiama, Jean-Francois; Christie, Nan; Eloir, Cecile; Gastinel, Anne; Greacen, Timothy; Hill, Martyn; Kaz...
Conductors: Equilbey, Laurence; Krivine, Emmanuel; Von der Goltz, Gottfried; Gardiner, John Eliot; Antonini, Giovanni; Alessandrini, Rinaldo; Griffiths, Howard; Spering, Christoph; Robertson, David; Sempe, Skip;...
Ensemble: ; Accentus Chamber Choir; Chorus Musicus; Concerto Italiano; Das Neue Orchester; English Baroque Soloists; Il Giardino Armonico; Les talens lyriques; Lyon National Orchestra; Orlando Gibbons Viol Ens...

De Murcia: Codex / Lislevand, Ensemble Kapsberger

2 CD / Naïve / 2005-08-16

Works: Santiago de Murcia: Fandango, for guitar; Folias gallegas, for guitar; Folias Españolas (Codex no 4); Saldivar Codex no 4; Jacaras (Codex no 4); Marizápalos; Tarantela I (Codex no 4); T...
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Barreaux, Gerard; Flamer, Ami; Gastinel, Anne; Hantai, Pierre [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Hurel, Juliette; Korcia, Laurent; Leiseer, Moshe; Portal, Michel; Sanchez, Leonardo; Sav...
Conductors: ; Alessandrini, Rinaldo
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano; Doulce Mémoire ; Ensemble Kapsberger; Il Giardino Armonico; Matheus Ensemble; Rare Fruits Council

Dowland: A Dream / Hopkinson Smith

1 CD / Naïve / 2005-04-19

Works: John Dowland: The Frog Galliard, for lute, P 23; Dream, P 75; My Lady Hunsdon's Allemande, Dowland; La mia Barbara, pavan for lute, P 95; Lady Cliftons Spirit, P 45; Galliard (on a galliard by Daniel...
Performers: Smith, Hopkinson

"Wonderfully personalize accounts... Dowland's complete lute music fits on five CDs. There's no reason for Mr. Smith to stop here." - Allan Kozinn, The New...continue...

Doulce Memoire

2 CD / Naïve / 2005-02-22

Works: Eustache du Caurroy: Missa pro defunctis, for chorus; Anonymous: Pavane fait au mariage de Mr. de Vandosme (from Messe de Mariage, 1600); Work(s); Canto di Lanzi Sonatori di Rubechine; Visin, Visin, ...
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Ensemble: Doulce Mémoire

This elegant recording celebrates the fifteen years of music made by Doulce Memoire. It is a journey through many of the undiscovered gems of the...continue...

Dowland: Ayres / Gérard Lesne, Ensemble Orlando Gibbons

1 CD / Naïve / 2004-05-01

Works: John Dowland: Can she excuse, P 42; If that a sinner's sighs be angel's food, sacred song for 4 voices & lute (A Pilgrimes Solace); A Pilgrimes Solace; Come Again; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Firste ...
Performers: Heringman, Jacob [Lute]
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Ensemble: Orlando Gibbons Viol Ensemble

"Lesne is a smart and naturally stylish singer, with an emotionally communicative tone. The Ensemble Orlando Gibbons provides a variety of alluring accompaniments for Dowland's...continue...

Ave Maria - Josquin/ Bernard Fabre-Garrus, A Sei Voci, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2004-01-01

Works: Pietro Paolo Bencini: Ave Maria; Charles D'Helfer: Missa pro defunctis à quatre voix; Josquin Desprez: Missa "Pange Lingua", for 4 parts; Missa "Gaudeamus," for four parts; Ave Maria... virgo ...
Conductors: Fabre-Garrus, Bernard
Ensemble: La Psallette de Lorraine; Les Sacqueboutiers

Ave Maria is a collection of the most important setting of 'Ave Maria' and 'Agnus Dei' recorded by A Sei Voci since 1993. This title...continue...

Ambronay Vol 4 - Amours, Zéphyrs, et Sirènes / La Turbulente

1 CD / Naïve / 2004-01-01

Works: Marco Uccellini: Aria decima terza Sopra "Questa Bella Sirena"; Bellerofonte Castaldi: Capricci a 2 stromenti; Sonata 5 for theorbo; Ritornello primo, for theorbo; Tarquinio Merula: Chiaccona a 3; Gi...
Performers: Giardelli, Mirella; Mohlmeier, Susi; Monteilhet, Pascal; Thouvenot, Frédérique
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Ensemble: La Turbulente

This anthology that constitutes the fourth CD in the series produced by the Ambronay Festival once again confirms its poineering reputation for highlighting new and...continue...

Rariora & Marginalia / Kraemer, The Rare Fruits Council

1 CD / Naïve / 2003-09-01

Works: Phillip Friedrich Böddecker: Sonata for violin & continuo in D minor; Sonata sopra La Monica, for bassoon & organ (from Sacra Partitura); Nicolaus Adam Strungk: Contrapunct sopra la Baáig...
Performers: Kraemer, Manfredo
Conductors: Kraemer, Manfred
Ensemble: Rare Fruits Council

"In the hands of these stylish and technically accomplised players the sonata 'La Guerra' by Johann Paul von Westhoff, Antonio Bertali's resourceful 'Chiacona' and Giovanni...continue...

Milan: El Maestro 1536 Vol 2 / Montserrat Figueras, H. Smith

1 CD / Naïve / 2002-04-23

Works: Luis de Milán: Triste estava muy quexosa; Leuay me amor; Gentil mia donna; Al amor quiero vencer; Sospirastes, Baldovinos; Agora viniesse un viento; Nova angeleta; Falai miña amor; Con pau...
Performers: Figueras, Montserrat; Smith, Hopkinson

Pavana - The Virgin Harpsichord / Skip Sempé, Fortin, Hantaï

1 CD / Naïve / 2002-03-19

Works: William Byrd: Pavan & Galliard ("Sir William Petre"), for keyboard in G minor no 2, MB 3; Pavan & Galliard, for keyboard, Nos. 4a/4b, MB 4; Pavan and Galliards (2) in A minor no 2, MB 15 "The Earl of...
Performers: Hantai, Pierre [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Sempe, Skip

Foscarini - Alfabeto / Rolf Lislevand, Kapsberger Ensemble

1 CD / Naïve / 2001-11-06

Works: Domenico Pellegrini: Ricercata per la E, for guitar; Giovanni Paolo Foscarini: Toccata per la E, for guitar; Passamezzo per la O, for guitar; Passacalles per l'alfabeto falso e per tutte le lettere, ...
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Ensemble: Ensemble Kapsberger