Recorder > Choral

Deo gracias Anglia! - Medieval English Carols; The Trinity Carol Roll / Andrew Lawrence-King; Michael Grebil; Pamela Thorby

1 CD / Obsidian Records / 2012-09-25

Works: Christmas Traditional: Hail Marye Ful of Grace, carol (English); Nowel, Nowel, Nowel, carol (English); Now May We Syngyn, carol (English); Be Mery, Be Mery, carol (English); Nowell Sing We, carol (En...
Performers: Grebil, Michael; Lawrence-King, Andrew; Thorby, Pamela
Conductors: Skinner, David
Ensemble: Alamire

The Trinity Carol Roll (Trinity College, Cambridge) is the earliest known source for the English polyphony carol. The thirteen works preserved therein include the patriotic...continue...
Recording information: The Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge (09/01/2011-09/03/2011)....continue...

Los Ministriles in the New World - Renaissance works by Fernandes, de Padilla, de Cabezon, Ortiz, Aranes, et al. / Piffaro

1 CD / Navona / 2012-06-26

Works: Gaspar Fernandes: Tañe Gil du tamborino; Elegit Eum Dominus; Sobre vuestro canto llano (de San Jerónimo); Oy, descubre la grandesa; Ah, de abajo!; Santiago de Murcia: Folias gallegas, for g...
Performers: Bauer, Annette
Conductors:
Ensemble: Piffaro

This is the 3rd full Navona Records release from Piffaro, the renaissance band. Los Ministriles in The New World is a broad and varied collection...continue...
Recording information: Concert Hall of Drew University, Dorothy Young Center f (01/10/2012-01/14/2012)....continue...

I Dilettosi Fiori - Late 14th Century Instrumental Music / Corina Marti, flutes & clavisimbalum

1 CD / Ramee / 2012-04-10

Works: Paolo da Firenze: Era Venus al termin, madrigal for 2 voices; Anonymous, Italian: Aquila altera (after Jacopo da Bologna); Indescort (diminution from the Codex Faenza on the anonymous ballad "A disco...
Performers: Marti, Corina; Meyer, Ernst; Musch, Monika
Conductors: Marti, Corina

The late 14th-century instrumental music that forms the core of this release comes from the two most important surviving sources of this repertoire: the London...continue...
Recording information: l'Eglise de Basse-Bodeux (04/2010/03/2011)....continue...

Gregory Spears: Requiem / Cunningham, Horner-Kwiatek, Angel, Olund

1 CD / New Amsterdam / 2011-11-15

Works: Gregory Spears: Requiem
Performers: Angel, Ryland; Cunningham, Ruth; Davis, Daniel Thomas; Horner, Jacqueline; Lipnik, Lawrence; Richards, Kurt-Owen; Weinfield, Elizabeth
Conductors: Spears, Gregroy

Requiem is the 1st recording by composer Gregory Spears. The release features the title composition scored for 6 voices, baroque viola, harp, troubadour harp, recorders,...continue...
Recording information: Corpus Christie Church, New York, NY (08/04/2010/08/06/2010)....continue...

The Christmas Album / Libera boy choir

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-11-15

Works: George Frederick Handel: Joy to the World (theme by Handel); Christmas Traditional: Still, Still, Still (Stille, stille, stille) (Austrian); O come, o come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, Emmanuel), carol; In...
Performers: Ashley, Charlotte; Coates, Sam; Collins, Luke; Crawley, Ben; De Menezes-Wood, Jakob; Fontannaz, Daniel; Geraghty, Steven; Ingles, Freddie; Leadbeater, Stefan; Madine, Joshua; May, Elizabeth; McCarthy...
Conductors: Prizeman, Robert

The Arts Desk
The singing is generally great - you can detect a very slight rough edge to the boys' sound which is exactly as it...continue...
Recording information: The Music Place, London, England (05/2011-07/2011).

For an act famed for their angelic vocals and heart-warming celestial sound, it's a surprise that The Christmas Album ...continue...

The Christmas Album / Libera boy choir [Deluxe Edition]

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-11-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Joy to the World (theme by Handel); Christmas Traditional: Still, Still, Still (Stille, stille, stille) (Austrian); O come, o come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, Emmanuel), carol; In...
Performers: Ashley, Charlotte; Coates, Sam; Collins, Luke; Crawley, Ben; De Menezes-Wood, Jakob; Fontannaz, Daniel; Geraghty, Steven; Ingles, Freddie; Leadbeater, Stefan; Madine, Joshua; May, Elizabeth; McCarthy...
Conductors: Prizeman, Robert

The Arts Desk
The singing is generally great - you can detect a very slight rough edge to the boys' sound which is exactly as it...continue...
Recording information: The Music Place, London, England (05/2011-07/2011).

For an act famed for their angelic vocals and heart-warming celestial sound, it's a surprise that The Christmas Album ...continue...

Music from the Court of Burgundy / Works by Ciconia, Dufay, Pullois, Binchois, Agricola, et al.

1 CD / Yarlung / 2011-09-27

Works: Johannes Pullois: Gloria, for chorus; Guillaume Dufay: Urbs beata Ierusalem, hymn for 3 voices; Anonymous, French: A cheval, tout homme à cheval, song; La franchoise nouvelle, for ensemble; Jo...
Performers: Gilbert, Adam Knight; Gilbert, Rotem; Milliken, Doug; Nagy, Debra
Conductors: Gilbert, Adam Knight; Gilbert, Rotem
Ensemble: ; Ciaramella

Ciaramella plays brilliantly on shawms, sackbuts, bagpipes and recorders - this is some of the best Renaissance wind playing in the world. Their new recording...continue...
Recording information: Alfred Newman Hall, University of Southern California, (06/09/2008-06/16/2008)....continue...

Glosas: des Prez; Verdelo; de Rore; Parrilla / Vincent Parilla, recorder

1 CD / Carpe Diem / 2011-07-26

Works: Anonymous: De tous biens playne; Marchetto Cara: Chi me dara più pace; Bartolomeo Tromboncino: Per dolor mi bagno il viso, song; Luys de Narváez: Mille regretz (after Josquin), for vihu...
Performers: Alqhai, Fahmi; Andueza, Raquel; Garrido, Alvaro; Parrilla, Vicente; Rincon, Miguel
Conductors: Parrilla, Vicente
Ensemble: ; More Hispano

Vincent Parilla, together with his ensemble, More Hispano, explores the 16th century art of musical ornamentation, diminution and improvisation in this latest release. His virtuoso...continue...
Recording information: Oratorio de la Escuela de Cristo, Sevilla (Spain) (04/26/2009-04/29/2009)....continue...

Guillaume de Machaut: The Motets / Ensemble Musica Nova

2 CD / Aeon / 2011-07-12

Works: Guillaume de Machaut: S'il estoit nulz/S'amours tous/Et gaudebit; Qui es promesses de Fortune/Ha, Fortune! trop suis mis loing/Et non est qui adjuvet; He, Mors, com tu es haïe/Fine Amour, quie m...
Performers: Bauer, Martin; Bernartene, Patrick; Bihan, Gwenael; Fourquier, Marion; Guimaraes-Peres, Lucas
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Musica Nova

Since the beauty, richness, and diversity of such an oeuvre made it impossible to choose amongst the 23 motets by the Canon of Reims, the...continue...
Recording information: Pigna (Haute-Corse) (04/07/2002-04/13/2002)....continue...

Nell' Autumno di Bisanzio: Guillaume Du Fay azischen Orient und Okzident

1 CD / Talanton / 2011-07-03

Works: Johannes Le Grant: Se liesse; Guillaume Dufay: Ce jour de l'an; Seigneur Leon, vous soyes bienvenus, rondeau for 4 voices (attributed); Vassilissa ergo gaude; C'est bien raison de devoir essaucier; L...
Performers: Baka, Theodora; Kountouras, Dimitris; Kyriakakis, Giorgos
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ex Silentio

Recording information: Andreaskirche Berlin Wannsee (02/04/2010-02/07/2010)....continue...

Engels Liedt - Works for Recorder Solo

1 CD / Carpe Diem / 2011-05-31

Works: Jacob van Eyck: Lof-zangh Marie ("Praise song of Mary") (The Magnificat); Der Fluyten Lust-hof; Janneman en Alemoer, for recorder; O Heiligh Zaligh, for recorder; Tweede Lavignone, for recorder; Prin...
Performers: Stempfel, Gerald

Engels Liedt is a selection of solo recorder works from the "Fluyten Lust-hof" by the blind flutist Jacob van Eyck (1590 - 1657). The recorder...continue...
Recording information: Klosterkirche Auhausen, Germany (08/2008)....continue...

Echo

1 CD / Divox / 2011-03-29

Works: Conrad Steinmann: Mare nostrum, for aulos; Hiérax 1, for traditional Greek wind instrument; Plagios 1 (after Sophronios), for recorder; Plagios 2 (after Sophronios), for recorder; Paiàn d&#...
Performers: Steinmann, Conrad

Recording information: Catholic Church, Seewen, Switzerland (10/1999)....continue...

Miguel de Fuenllana: Orphénica Lyra 1554

1 CD / Glossa / 2011-03-03

Works: Miguel de Fuenllana: La Bomba, song (after Flecha); Passeavase el rey moro, for voice & vihuela; Buscad de oy mas, song (fragment from "La Justa") (after Flecha); Morenica, dame un beso, for voice & ...
Performers: Balestracci, Guido; Casademunt, Sergi; Fresno, Alba; Mayoral, David; Mena, Carlos [Countertenor Vocal]; Moreno, Jose Miguel; Paz, Fernando; Rial, Nuria

BBC Music Magazine
The singing of Nuria Rial and Carlos Mena makes this a constant delight. This is the Spanish Romantic guitar at the peak of...continue...
Recording information: Cuenca Iglesia de San Miguel, Spain (02/1999-03/1999); San Lorenzo de Escorial, Antigua Hospedería (02/1999-03/1999)....continue...

Chansons a plaisir - le Roy, Morlaye, Arcadelt, Sermisy, etc / Fires of Love, et al

1 CD / Delphian Records / 2011-01-11

Works: Adrian Le Roy: Puis que vivre (Second Livre, 1552-1555); Pimontoyse; Laissez la verte couleur (Second Livre, 1552-1555); Oyez tous amoureux (Second Livre, 1552-1555); Work(s); L'ennuy que me tormente...
Performers: Claridge, Marcus; Cooper, Frances; Ferries, Gordon; Hugh-Jones, Jonathan
Conductors:
Ensemble: Fires of Love

Amid religious strife and social turmoil, the 16th century saw France emerge as a humanist culture with a unique musical voice. This world of contrasts...continue...

Aled's Christmas Gift / boy soprano

1 CD / Demon Tv / 2010-12-07

Works: Buddy Greene: Mary, Did You Know?, song; William James Kirkpatrick: Away in a manger; Gustav Holst: In the bleak mid-winter; Franz Gruber: Silent Night; John Goss: See Amid the Winter's Snow, for cho...
Performers: Aitken, Rob; Ashley, Charlotte; Beston, Simon; Brown, Zoe; Coates, Sam; Crawley, Ben; Flanaghan, Katie; Hale, Simon; Hughes, Emilia; Jones, Aled; Kelly, John; Lole, Simon; May, Elizabeth; Palliser, U...

Recording information: Coombehurst Studio, Kingston University, London; FX YourSpace Studios, London; Greendale Studios, London, England.

Responsible for one of the most iconic and enchanting C...continue...

Vaughan Wiliams: Carols, Songs & Hymns

1 CD / Park Records (uk) / 2010-12-07

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Golden Carol ("Now is Christèmas y-come"), carol for chorus; Blake's Cradle Song ("Sweet dreams, form a shade o'er my lovely infant's head"), carol for chorus; Hodie;...
Performers: Banks, Steve; Davis, Jub; Lewin, Giles [Violin/Bagpipe]; Prior, Maddy; Prior, Maddy & The Carnival Band; Vitale, Steno; Watts, Andy

Recording information: Blue Moon Studios, Oxfordshire; The Steppings Cumbria....continue...

Ghiradello da Firenze: Madrigali, Cacce, Ballate

1 CD / Nuova Era / 2010-05-25

Works: Ghirardello da Firenze: Per non far liet'alcun; Allo spirar dell'arie brun; I' vo' bene a chi vol bene a me, ballata; Donna, l'altrui mirar che fate; Cacciando un giorno alla vaga foresta; Si forte v...
Performers: Hoffmann, Bettina; Sardelli, Federico Maria
Conductors:
Ensemble: Modo Antiquo

Recording information: Oratorio di S. Francesco Poverino, Firenze, Italy (08/1991); Villa "La Quiete" Firenze (08/1991); Oratorio di S. Francesco Poverino, Firenze, Italy (10/1992); Villa "La Quiete" ...continue...

Waytes: English Music

1 CD / Navona / 2010-01-26

Works: Thomas Weelkes: Tan ta ra ran tan tant, cryes Mars, madrigal for 3 voices; Young cupid hath proclaimed, madrigal for 4 voices; Cease sorrowes now, madrigal for 3 voices; A country paire, for band; Th...
Performers: Mor, Daphna

Since 1980, the seven-member group known as 'Piffaro, The Renaissance Band' has attained an unequalled reputation for excellence in performance and recordings of music from...continue...
Recording information: The High Point, St. Peter's Church in the Great Valley, (2008-05-26_2008-05-29&2009-)....continue...

Estel De Mar: Llibre Vermall de Monserrat

1 CD / Christophorus / 2009-11-01

Works: Anonymous, Llibre Vermell de Montserrat: O Virgo splendens, canon for 3 voices (Llibre Vermell); Stella splendens in monte, virelai for 2 voices (Llibre Vermell); Laudemus virginem, canon for 3 voice...
Performers: Bothwell, Malcolm; Hoefener, Kristin
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Kantika (Vocal Ensemble)

Montserrat monastery had been a well-known place for the veneration of the Virgin in the 13th and 14th centuries, also being home of the Llibre...continue...
Recording information: Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France (07/2009)....continue...

Italian Music for Virtuosi / La Dada Amsterdam

1 CD / Globe / 2009-09-01

Works: Biagio Marini: Sonata no 4; Giovanni Fontana: Sonate per il violino, o altro istromento; Dario Castello: Sonata no 8; Sonata no 4; Girolamo Frescobaldi: Il primo libro delle canzoni; Cypriano de Rore...
Performers: Ayrton, Patrick; Mings, David; Tol, Han
Conductors:
Ensemble: La Dada

The Troubador & the Nun - Hildegard von Bingen, Dowland, etc / Tubb, et al

1 CD / EtCetera Records / 2009-09-01

Works: Giraut de Bornelh: Reis glorios, monophonic alba; Hildegard von Bingen: Ave generosa; O clarissima mater, response; O viridissima virga; Beatriz de Dia: A chantar m'er de so qu'en no volria, song; An...
Performers: Fields, Michael; Hatcher, David; Tubb, Evelyn [Soprano Vocals]

God shall be praised - Music from Lüne Convent / Ulrike Volkhardt, et al

1 CD / Cantate / 2009-02-13

Works: Anonymous: Procedentem sponsum; Cantate Domino canticum novum; Ad te levavi; Ibant parentes Iesu; In omnibus requiem quesivi; Suscepimus Deus; Tribus miraculis; Puer nobis nascitur; Factus est Dominu...
Performers: Volkhardt, Ulrike
Conductors: Volkhardt, Ulrike
Ensemble: Devotio Moderna

Ensemble Devotio Moderna perform modern interpretations of long forgotten musical manuscripts from the middle ages discovered in the libraries of German convents. For these recordings...continue...

Alfred Deller - The Complete Vanguard Recordings Vol 2 - Music of Henry Purcell

7 CD / Musical Concepts / 2008-09-02

Works: Henry Purcell: Fantasia upon a Ground in D major, Z 731; Music for a while; I love and I must, Z 382 "Bell Barr"; Let the dreadful engines (from "Don Quixote"), song, Z. 578/3; Oedipus, Z 583; Fairy ...
Performers: Baines, Francis; Bergmann, Walter; Bevan, Maurice; Brown, Wilfred; Cantelo, April; Clift, Dennis; Dales, Ellen; Deller, Alfred; Deller, Mark; Dupre, Desmond; English, Gerald; Eskdale, George; Friedma...
Conductors: Leonhardt, Gustav; Deller, Alfred; Tippett, Michael; Harnoncourt, Nikolaus
Ensemble: ; Deller Consort; Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble

Faventina / Pedro Memelsdorff, Mala Punica

1 CD / Naïve / 2007-11-20

Works: Anonymous, Codex Faenza: Kyrie cunctipotens genitor Deus, intabulation (ff. 79r-79v); Kyrie cunctipotens genitor Deus, intabulation for keyboard (ff. 88r-90r); Gloria, intabulation (ff. 90r-92v); Fon...
Performers: Memelsdorff, Pedro
Conductors: Memelsdorff, Pedro
Ensemble: Mala Punica

Mala Punica (the pomegranates) is a vocal and instrumental ensemble entirely devoted to a repertoire that has been called "the avant-garde of the European middle-ages"....continue...

Heu, fortuna / La rota

1 CD / ATMA / 2007-10-30

Works: Gillebert de Berneville: Au noviau temps que yvers se debrise, for vocal ensemble; Philippe de Vitry: Aman novi/Heu, fortuna subdola/Heu me; Tribum/Quoniam secta/Merito hec patimur, motet; Tobie Mill...
Performers: Barnes, Sarah; Brûlé, Émilie; Miller, Tobie; Rotta, Esteban La
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble La Rota

La Rota is a Montreal-based quartet that has garnered acclaim for its creative presentation of medieval music, and consists of Sarah Barnes (soprano), Tobie Miller...continue...

Galicia - Rennaissance Music from Spain / Linn Barnes, et al

1 CD / Oak Leaf / 2007-05-01

Works: Traditional: Muiñeira de Chantada; Muiñeira de Poio; A noite do Santo Christo; March of the Shawms; Danza de San Roque de Hio; Maneo da Ulla; Muiñeira do Areal; Aires de Pontevedra; Ga...
Performers: Anderson, Tim [cello]; Barnes, Linn; Bloom, Steve; Cunliffe, Joseph; Hampton, Allison

Galician was the language of the great King of Leon and Castille, Alfonso X. It was he who stood in the face of the Inquisition...continue...

17th Century Italian Music - Cima, et al / Ensemble L'Albera

1 CD / La Ma De Guido / 2007-05-01

Works: Giovanni Stefani: Bella mia, questo mio core; Giovanni Paolo Cima: Sonatas (6) "Concerti ecclesiastici"; Marco da Gagliano: Alma mia, dove te'n vai; Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 9; Vincenzo Ca...
Performers: Alqhai, Fahmi; Budo, Carles; Domenech, Jordi; Pares, Sara; Parron i Conus, Salvador; Solinis, Enrike
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble L'Albera

In contrast to the more experimental works, the 17th century saw a great proliferation of published editions of strophic songs, composed in a much more...continue...

Music for Emperor Charles V - Josquin, etc / Gerchen, et al

1 CD / Coviello / 2007-04-05

Works: Anonymous: Dit le burguygnon; Cancionero de Upsala; L'homme armé; Tourdion; L'amor, dona, ch'io te porto; Ay luna que reluzes; Propinan de melyor; Requiem aeternam; Michael Praetorious: Pavane...
Performers: Bäuml, Katharina; Bahr, Birgit; Gerchen, Matthias; Hills, Annette; Knebel, Sebastian; Reimers, Detlef; Thiele, Nora
Conductors:
Ensemble: Capella de la Torre

The emphasis of this new recording is on ceremonial wind music, which was popular, particularly in Spain, at spiritual and secular events alike. However, the...continue...

This England - Playford, Morley, et al / Folger Consort

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2007-04-01

Works: John Playford: The English Dancing Master; Thomas Morley: O mistress mine, where are you roaming; First Booke of Ayres; The First Booke of Consort Lessons (1599); Now is the gentle season, madrigal i...
Performers: Balestrieri, Amanda; Bleeke, Mark; Chancey, Tina; Covey-Crump, Rogers; Craig, Robert; Eisenstein, Robert; Gillespie, Wendy; Herreid, Grant; Hollinshead, Barbara; Kendall, Christopher; Lushin, Guy; Mi...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Folger Consort

The Folger Consort celebrates 30 years in residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library by giving early music lovers everywhere a wonderful present. This England: Music...continue...

Libera - Angel Voices

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2006-10-31

Works: Tagatsugu Muramtsu: Far Away; Robert Prizeman: Locus iste; Ave Maria; Going Home; Salva me; Libera; Always With You; We are the lost; I am the day; Recordare; Jean Sibelius: Be still my soul; Gustav ...
Performers: Anderson, John [Classical]; Dodd, Chris; Geraghty, Steven; Pears, Fiona; Prizeman, Robert; Tilley, Ian
Conductors: Prizeman, Robert
Ensemble: Libera

Libera's 'Angel Voices' collection includes the best of past tracks combined with some new tracks-the deeply moving "Going Home," employing the melody of Dvorak's Largo...continue...

Best Baroque 100

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2006-08-29

Works: George Frederick Handel: Coronation Anthems (4); Solomon, HWV 67; Messiah, HWV 56; Water Music Suite no 2 in D major, HWV 349; Dixit Dominus, HWV 232; Giulio Cesare, HWV 17; Alcina, HWV 34; Jeremiah ...
Performers: André, Maurice [trumpet]; Andre, Maurice; Argenta, Nancy; Asperen, Bob van; Augér, Arleen; Auger, Arleen; Banchini, Chiara; Beckett, Rachel; Bennett, Mark; Bennett, Mark [Trumpet]; Blyt...
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen; Hickox, Richard; ; Parrott, Andrew; Haïm, Emmanuelle; Haïm, Emmanuelle; Leonhardt, Gustav; Norrington, Roger; Nelson, John; Rooley, Anthony; Rees, Jonathan; McCreesh, Pau...
Ensemble: ; Academy of Ancient Music; Academy of Ancient Music (UK); Academy of London; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Boston Early Music Festival Choir; Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra; Capella Ag...

Cathedral Sounds - Guilaume Dufay / Clemencic Consort

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2006-02-14

Works: Anonymous, Buxheimer Orgelbuch: Modocomor, chanson (Buxheimer Orgelbuch) (after Dufay); Parleregart (after Dufay); Portugaler (Das Buxheimer Orgelbuch, Folio 43); Se la face ay pale, chanson setting...
Performers: Clemencic, René; Curry, James; Lambauer, Bernd; Landauer, Bernhard; Sherwin, Doron David
Conductors: Clemencic, René
Ensemble: Clemencic Consort

Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1400-1474) was the first great master of the so-called Netherlands school of composers, and one of the greatest masters of Western music....continue...

Que le yable les emporte / Bernard Simard, Constantinople

1 CD / ATMA / 2005-11-01

Works: Traditional: Descendez à l'ombre; Rossignolet sauvage; Galant, tu perds ton temps; C'est la belle Françoise; Wedding Reel; Su'l carillon; Simone-Charlotte; La belle Hélène...
Performers: Jennejohn, Matthew; Miron, Normand; Ross, Guy; Söderström, Elin; Simard, Bernard; Tabassian, Kiya; Tabassian, Ziya
Conductors:
Ensemble: Constantinople

Since its inception in 1998, Constantinople has performed original musical creations born of a cosmopolitan reflection on the transformation and integration of ancient music from...continue...

Mirabile Mysterium - Christmas Music through the Ages

1 CD / Challenge Classics / 2005-09-13

Works: Jacobus Handl: Mirabile Mysterium, for 5 voices (Opus musicum); Ab oriente venerunt magi, for 4 voices (Opus musicum); Sebastián Alfonso: Unidos tres reyes, for chorus & ensemble; Anonymous, Fre...
Performers: Coen, Bart [Recorder]; Delpierre, Beatrice; Watillon, Sophie
Conductors: Van Nevel, Paul

This is a compilation of well - and lesser-known Christmas music, interpreted by the award-winning Netherlands Chamber Choir conducted by Paul van Nevel....continue...

Música en el Quijote - Milán, etc / Moreno, Orphénica Lyra

1 CD / Glossa / 2005-05-01

Works: Luis de Milan: Libro de música de vihuela de mano intitulado El maestro; Anonymous: Cancionero musical de Palacio; Si d'amor pena sentis; No hay que decirle el primor; Qué bonito ni&nti...
Performers: Alqhai, Fahmi; Andueza, Raquel; Domènech, Jordi; Garrido, Alvaro; Moreno, José Miguel; Paz, Fernando; Quinteiro, Eligio; Rial, Nuria
Conductors: Moreno, José Miguel
Ensemble: Orphénica Lyra

Frutti Musicali / Colpron, Napper, et al

1 CD / ATMA / 2004-05-01

Works: Marco Uccellini: Sonata for violin & continuo "detta la Vittoria trionfante", Op. 4/1; Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonata Seconda for soprano recorder, viola da gamba & lute (from Sonata à 1, 2, ...
Performers: Colpron, Francis; Weimann, Alexander

Primavera - Monteverdi, etc / Les Voix Humaines, et al

1 CD / ATMA / 2004-04-01

Works: Claude Le Jeune: Revecy venir du printans; Luzzasco Luzzaschi: O Primavera; Claudio Monteverdi: O Primavera, gioventú de l'anno, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 3), SV 68; Chiome d'oro, Canzone...
Performers: Bergeron, Sylvain; Brault, Oliver; Colpron, Francis; Dhavernas, Vincent; LeBlanc, Suzie [Soprano Vocals]; Maute, Matthias; Plouffe, Helene; Taylor, Daniel
Conductors:
Ensemble: Les Voix Humaines

Musiques Maçonniques

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2003-11-04

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, K 477 (479a); Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt, K 619; Adagio for 2 cl...
Performers: Badorek, Wilfried; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Brouwenstijn, Gre; Causse, Gerard [Viola]; Charbonnier, Marcelle; Ciccolini, Aldo [Piano]; Cluytens, Andre; Cordier, Robert; Cotte, Roger; Cot...
Conductors: Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Norrington, Roger; Klöcker, Dieter; Cotte, Roger; Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae; Cluytens, André
Ensemble: ; Consortium Musicum

This set contains both ADD and DDD recordings.

Personnel: Gérard Caussé (alto); Bernard Cottret (baryton); Helena Polonska (harp); Georges Tessler, Augustin Dumay (violone); Robert ...continue...

Counter-Tenor Duets and Songs - Purcell and Contemporaries

1 CD / Deux Elles / 2003-07-01

Works: Henry Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, away, Z 323; Fairy Queen, Z 629; Music for a while; Welcome to all the pleasures, Z 339 "Ode for St Cecilia's Day"; O dive custos; No, resistance is but vain (fro...
Performers: Alter, Emma; Angel, Ryland; Chambers, Mark; Davey, Becky; Duff, Claire; Hird, Laura; Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Richter, Rodolfo; Takeuchi, Taro

Songs from the Taverne

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-01-01

Works: Anonymous, Italian: Saltarello no 1 (GB-LBl Add.29987); La Manfredina; Saltarello no 2 (GB-LBl Add.29987); Anonymous, English: Angelus ad Virginem; Sumer is icumen in; Brawle, for ensemble; Anonymous...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Lindo, Sharon; Spring, Matthew; Wandor, Michelene; Wesseling, Lisette

Ballads and songs from the time of Chaucer. Lively and cosmopolitan, these songs and ballads are performed in an authentic style using period instruments. The...continue...
Includes estampie(s) real by Anonymous, Manuscrit du Roi....continue...

Early Music - Music of the Troubadours / Unicorn, Oni Wytars

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-04-01

Works: Berenguer de Palol: Tant m'abelis; Ai tal domna; Anonymous, Troubadour: Domna, pos vos ay chausida; Ara Lauzatz; Giraut de Bornelh: Non posc sofrir qu'a la dolor; Reis glorios, monophonic alba; Peire...
Performers: Ambrosini, Marco; Posch, Michael
Conductors: Posch, Michael
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn; Oni Wytars

Using the ideals of courtly love as their inspiration, the troubadours provided a window on the lives, preoccupations and obsessions of the Middle Ages. The...continue...
Recording information: W*A*R* Studio, Vienna, Austria (06/04/1996-06/06/1996)....continue...

Chip Davis' Renaissance Holiday / Roth, Berkey, Layton

1 CD / American Gramophone / 1998-10-06

Works: Thoinot Arbeau: Orchésographie; Traditional: What child is this?; Patapan; I saw three ships; Good King Wenceslas; God rest ye merry, gentlemen; Lully, lulla, thow littel tyne child "Coventry ...
Performers: Berkey, Jackson; Layton, Roxanne; Roth, Arnie
Conductors: ; Davis, Chip; Roth, Arnie
Ensemble: Asbury Brass Quintet; Chicago Chamber Musicians Brass Quintet; London Symphony Orchestra members; Musica Anima; Pittsburgh Symphony Brass

Landini and his time / Ensemble Alba Musica Kyo

1 CD / Channel Classics / 1997-07-01

Works: Anonymous, Italian: Saltarellos 1-4 (GB-LBl Add.29987); Lamento di Tristano, estampie; Francesco Landini: Gran pianto a gli ochi, ballata for 3 voices, S. 128; Conviensi a fede, ballata for 3 voices,...
Performers: Fukuzawa, Hiroshi; Kitazato, Taka; Satoh, Toyohiko
Conductors:
Ensemble: Alba Musica Kyo

Grace / Kathleen Battle

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1997-03-18

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Joshua; Hugo Wolf: Schlafendes Jesuskind ("Sohn der Jungfrau"), song for voice & piano (Mörike Lieder); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Laudate Dominum; Johann Seb...
Performers: Allen, Nancy [Harp]; Arak, Alan; Baker, Timothy; Battle, Kathleen; Baumer, Bruce R.; Bennion-Feeney, Krista; Bushman, Robin; Caplin, Martha; Carroll, David; Church, Sandra [Flute]; Curtis, Charles; D...
Conductors: Sadin, Robert

Purcell: Airs & Duets / Jeffrey Dooley, Howard Crook

2 CD / Lyrichord / 1996-09-24

Works: Henry Purcell: Fairy Queen, Z 629; Welcome to all the pleasures, Z 339 "Ode for St Cecilia's Day"; Saccharissa's grown old, song for soprano, bass & continuo, Z. 507; Bid the virtues; Lord, what is m...
Performers: Brewer, Edward; Carp, David; Crook, Howard [Tenor Vocals]; Dooley, Jeffrey; Godburn, Dennis; Godburn, Dennis L. [Bassoon]; Reed, Daniel; Shulman, Louise; Springfels, Mary

"Recorded in the late seventies, Airs and Duets became, to quote Lyrichord, 'one of the most popular Purcell recordings ever released.' It came out at...continue...

Schnittke: Choir Concerto; Requiem

1 CD / Swedish Society Discofil / 1996-05-11

Works: Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for choir (Concerto for soprano & chorus); Requiem, music to Schiller's drama "Don Carlos", for soloists, mixed chorus & instrumental ensemble
Performers: Borjesson, Jan; Danilesson, Monica; Goransson, Carina; Green, Hans Christian; Gustafsson, Mariette; Jonsson, Helene; Karlsson, Lena; Kessel, Ton; Kjellson, Magnus; Lindberg, Lars; Nilsson, Anders; Ny...

Almquist: Dreams and Fantasies / Solveig Faringer

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1995-12-05

Works: Carl Jonas Love Almquist: Det doftar i Sätras skog; Uppwaknandet; Ängelns kallelse; Än var det...; Songe no 1 "Den lyssnande Maria"; Songe no 16 "Marias häpnad"; Songe no 40 "Barn...
Performers: Aberg, Kerstin; Ersson, Alm Nils; Faringer, Solveig; Hellden, Bodil Asmussen; Hellden, Daniel; Jonsson, Anders-Per; Kjellson, Ingvar; Von Bahr, Gunilla; Von Bahr, Robert
Conductors: Helldén, Daniel; Jonsson, Anders-Per
Ensemble: Lidingö Kammarkör ; Salträngens Skola Klass 5a

Tunes from the Attic / The Baltimore Consort

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 1993-03-16

Works: Thomas Morley: Joyne hands; Anonymous: You Lasses and Lads; Pavane and Galliarde; Come Love Let's Walk; The Irish Ho-Hoane; The Irishe Dumpe; Joy to the person of my love; Samuel Akeroyde: Jenny, My ...
Performers: Ballard, Mary Anne; Cudek, Mark; LaRue, Custer; Lipkis, Larry; McFarlane, Ronn; Norman, Chris
Conductors:
Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

The Japanese Recorder / Dan Laurin

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1993-02-01

Works: Maki Ishii: Black Intention, for recorder; East.Green.Spring, for solo recorder, Op. 94; Ryohei Hirose: Hymn for recorder solo; Meditation; Kikuko Masumoto: Pastorale for recorder solo; Makoto Shinoh...
Performers: Laurin, Dan

Divisions on an Ayre / William Sharp, Folger Consort

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 1991-11-01

Works: John Dowland: Can she excuse, P 42; Third and Last Booke of Songes; Tobias Hume: The Earl of Pembrooke's Galiard, for bass & ensemble; Fain Would I Change That Note for soprano & ensemble; Robert Joh...
Performers: Eisenstein, Robert; Kendall, Christopher; Reiss, Scott
Conductors:
Ensemble: Folger Consort