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English Royal Funeral Music: Purcell, Morley, Tomkins / Vox Luminis; Guy Penson: virginal

1 CD / Ricercar / 2013-04-09

Works: Henry Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord; Music on the Death of Queen Mary (Funeral Sentences / The Queen's Epicedium); O dive custos; In the midst of life; Remember not, Lord, our offences, Z 50; Thoma...
Performers: Lopez-Escribano, Jorge [Organ]; Suzuki, Masato
Conductors: Meunier, Lionel; Madeuf,Jean-François; Laurent, Benoît;
Ensemble: Lingua Franca (Classical); Trompettes Des Plaisirs; Vox Luminis

Expedition Audio - Music that deserves to be heard
One section of the service, The Funeral Sentences by Henry Purcell, are utterly heart-rending in the communion...continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Jean Baptiste, Beaufays (09/2011/09/2012)....continue...

Adriaen Willaert: Chansons; Madrigali; Villanel / Romanesque

1 CD / Ricercar / 2013-01-08

Works: Adrian Willaert: Qual dolcezza giami, madrigal for 5 voices (Madrigali); Zoia zentil che per secreta via, canzona for 4 voices ("Canonza di Ruzante"); Dessus le marché d'Arras, chanson for 4 v...
Performers: Coen, Bart [Recorder]; Devaere, Hannelore; Malfeyt, Philippe; Van Laethem, Katelijne [Soprano Vocal]; Watillon, Sophie
Conductors: Malfeyt, Philippe;
Ensemble: ; Romanesque

To celebrate Adriaen Willaert's anniversary, this recording of the composer's secular repertoire gives us a very different vision of his work compared to his religious...continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Apollinaire à Bolland (06/1994)....continue...

Adriaen Willaert: Vespro della Beata Vergine; Organ interludes; Gregorian chant / Capilla Flamenca, De Cat, Caas, Denys, Hache et al

1 CD / Ricercar / 2012-08-14

Works: Gregorian Chant: Deus in adiutorium, introductio (6 part introductory prayer); Annibale Padovano: Toccata for organ in the 8th tone; Toccata for organ in the 3rd and 4th tones; Adrian Willaert: Bened...
Performers: Verdin, Joris
Conductors: Cuppens, Robert
Ensemble: Capilla Flamenca

To celebrate the 450th anniversary of the death of Flemish composer Adriaen Willaert, Capilla Flamenca presents the various Psalms and the Magnificat that form his...continue...

Monteverdi: Missa in illo tempore / Odhecaton

1 CD / Ricercar / 2012-04-10

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Missa de capella a 6 "In illo tempore"; Salve Regina (IV), motet for 3 voices & organ; Salve Regina (V), motet for 3 voices & organ; Regina Caeli, motet for 3 voices & organ; Cant...
Performers: Frigato, Silvia; Zanichelli, Barbara
Conductors: Col, Paolo da
Ensemble: Odhecaton

Featuring world premiere recordings of three Monteverdi Motets! Of all Monteverdi's works, the Missa in illo tempore marks the most important link between the composer...continue...
Recording information: Mantova, Basilica di Santa Barbara (09/2011)....continue...

Frescobaldi: The Barberini Consort of Viols / Andrea de Carlo, Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Vox Luminis

1 CD / Ricercar / 2012-02-14

Works: Girolamo Frescobaldi: Fiori Musicali (Roma, 1635); Libro primo delle Canzoni (Roma, 1628); Canzoni a cinque (Roma, 1632); Domenico Mazzocchi: Libro primo dei Madrigali, for vocal ensemble; Giovanni P...
Conductors: de Carlo, Andrea;
Ensemble: Ensemble Mare Nostrum

We are inclined to forget that the viol family still enjoyed a certain success in the land of the violin at the beginning of the...continue...
Recording information: Beaufays, église Saint-Jean l'évangéliste (01/2011)....continue...

Heinrich Isaac: Ich Muss Dich Lassen / Dirk Snellings, Capilla Flamenca

1 CD / Ricercar / 2012-01-10

Works: Heinrich Isaac: 'T meisken was jonck, chanson for 4 voices (possibly spurious; probably by Obrecht or Japart); Missa Tmeisken was jonck; Salve Regina; La morra; Hor'è di maggio, song for 4 voi...
Conductors: Snellings, Dirk
Ensemble: Capilla Flamenca

Born in Flanders, Heinrich Isaac spent his career between the Medici court in Florence and the court of Emperor Maximilian I in Vienna and Innsbruck....continue...
Recording information: Provinciaal Museum Begijnhofkerk Sint-Truiden (03/2011)....continue...

Heinrich Schutz: Musicalishche Exequien

1 CD / Ricercar / 2011-07-12

Works: Heinrich Schütz: Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener, for soprano, alto, 2 tenors, bass & continuo ad lib, SWV 432-433; Ich bin die Auferstehung und das Leben, for double chorus, SWV 464; Da...
Performers: Foccroulle, Bernard
Conductors: Meunier, Lionel
Ensemble: Vox Luminis

Prince Heinrich von Reuss organized all the details of his funeral in advance, from the music - to be composed and performed by Heinrich Schütz...continue...
Recording information: Beaufays, Église Saint-Jean l'Évangeliste (10/2010)....continue...

Un Camino de Santiago

1 CD / Ricercar / 2011-06-14

Works: Gregorian Chant: Procedens Jesus vidit Jacobum, antiphon (Ad vesperae in festo Sanci Jacobi); Urbani Loth: O beate Dei athleta Jacobe, for voice & ensemble; Guillaume Chastillon De La Tour: Justes, c...
Performers: Savall, Arianna
Conductors: Tubéry, Jean
Ensemble: Ensemble la Fenice (France)

La Fenice brings formal & popular repertoire of the 17th century back to life on a disc featuring sacred & secular songs combined with joyfully...continue...
Recording information: Franc-Warêt Church, Namur, Belgium (04/28/2007-04/30/2007); Saligny Church, France (04/28/2007-04/30/2007); Franc-Warêt Church, Namur, Belgium (09/15/2007-09/16/2007);...continue...

Attaingnant: Que Je Chatoulle Ta Fossette: Danceries

1 CD / Ricercar / 2010-05-11

Works: Pierre Attaingnant: Work(s); Suite de Branles d'Escosse no 1; Prélude for lute (Très brève et familière introduction); Amour pense que je dorme, chanson (after Claudin de ...
Conductors: Raisin-Dadre, Denis
Ensemble: Doulce Mémoire

The several volumes of Danceries occupy an important place among the numerous works published by Pierre Attaingnant in Paris. Although they were principally intended to...continue...
Recording information: Réfectoire de l'Abbaye de Fontevraud (02/2009/04/2009)....continue...

Le Concert des Violes

1 CD / Ricercar / 2010-02-09

Works: Louis Couperin: Fantaisies (2) for viols (Pièces pour les violes); Simphonies; Fantasy for Organ [1651]; Deuxième fantaisie à cinque, for strings (Fantaisies for strings); Eustac...
Performers: Garcia Alarcon, Leonardo; Vanmarsenille, Edward [Organ]; Zonderman, Bernard
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Mare Nostrum

A wonderful recording featuring Italian and French composers, who use the violin in very different ways, this recording comes to a fitting end with the...continue...
Recording information: Bolland, Église Saint-Apollinaire (09/2008/05/2009)....continue...

Roland de Lassus: Bonjour mon coeur

1 CD / Ricercar / 2010-01-12

Works: Orlande de Lassus: Bon jour mon coeur; Work(s); O vin en vigne (Bonte divine, vien et monster), chanson for 4 voices, B. xiii/84 (S. xii/67); Sauter danser faire les tours, chanson for 4 voices, B. x...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Capilla Flamenca

Capilla Flamenca presents this music in the spirit of an intimate concert given by its singers and instrumentalists, delighting the most refined ears of the...continue...
Recording information: Abdijkerk van Park, Heverlee - Belgium (06/2009)....continue...

Carlo Farina: Capriccio Stravagante; Sonate / Ensemble Clematis

1 CD / Ricercar / 2009-07-14

Works: Carlo Farina: Pavana III a 4 (Libro IV); Sonata detta la Desperata a 2 (Libro V); Canzon detta la Marina a 2 (Libro I); Sonata detta la Moretta a 3 (Libro I); Balletto a 3 (Libro I); Passamezzo a 3 (...
Performers: Bottiglieri, Girolamo; Failly, Stephanie de
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Clematis

Even though the astonishing Capriccio Stravagante, with all of its imitations of instruments and animals, is well known to all lovers of baroque music, the...continue...

Roland de Lassus: Magnum Opus Musicum / Tubéry, La Fenice

1 CD / Ricercar / 2009-07-14

Works: Orlande de Lassus: Magnum opus musicum... complectens omnes cantiones, motet collection for 2-10, 12 voices
Conductors: Tubéry, Jean
Ensemble: Ensemble la Fenice (France)

In 1604, ten years after the death of Roland de Lassus, his sons published a vast anthology of his works - more than 700 motets...continue...

Fagotto, Basson, Dulcian, Curtal? / Syntagma Amici

1 CD / Ricercar / 2009-02-10

Works: Michael Praetorius: Ballet a 4 (Terpischore 268a); Adriano Banchieri: L'Alcenagina sopra Vestiva i colli; Bartolome de Selma y Salaverde: Vestiva i colli (after Palestrina); Canzona a due Tenori; Wor...
Performers: Frank, Elsa; Mercet, Francis; Raisin-Dadre, Denis [Flute]
Conductors: Papasergio, Jeremie
Ensemble: Syntagma Amici

Of all the instruments developed during the Renaissance, the bassoon undoubtedly possesses the most curious history. Associated with music in the open air, it was...continue...

The Walsingham Consort Books / Denecker, Hamilton, La Caccia

1 CD / Ricercar / 2009-02-10

Works: Daniel Bacheler: Daniells Almayne for consort; Daniel's Trial, for voice & consort; Lady Walsingham's Conceits; Sir Francis Walsingham's Goodmorrow, for voice & consort; Anonymous: Lavecchia, for con...
Performers: Denecker, Patrick; Hamilton, Susan [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors:
Ensemble: La Caccia

After exploring Morley's 'First Book of Consort Lessons', La Caccia now turns to one of the principal manuscript sources of music for the ensemble that...continue...

Rogier, Romero: Masses / Tubéry, Namur Chamber Choir, et al

2 CD / Ricercar / 2009-01-13

Works: Philippe Rogier: Cantate Dominum canticum novum, motet for 5 parts; Da pacem Domine, motet for 6 voices; Missa Domine Dominus noster, for 12 voices; Regina caeli laetare, motet for 8 voices; Cantanti...
Performers: Janssens, Els; Lenaerts, Thibaut; Renson, Laurence
Conductors: Tubéry, Jean
Ensemble: Doulce Mémoire ; Ensemble la Fenice (France); Ricercar Consort

A native of Namur, Philippe Rogier was a member of the Capilla Flamenca in Madrid. He was one of the musicians in charge of the...continue...

Caccini: L'Euridice / Achten, Scherzi Musicali, et al

1 CD / Ricercar / 2009-01-13

Works: Giulio Caccini: Euridice, opera
Performers: Achten, Nicolas [Conductor]; Berten, Olivier; El-Bushra, Magid; Mecheken, Reinoud van; Renson, Laurence; Roy, Marie de; Vieslet, Céline
Conductors: Achten, Nicolas

Caccini's lyricism, emotion, and skilled vocal writing show clearly that his 'L'Euridice' is the true forerunner of Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo'. Ricercar now proudly presents this world...continue...

Lambert de Sayve: Messe du sacre de l'empereur Mathias / Tubéry, La Fenice, et al

1 CD / Ricercar / 2008-08-12

Works: Alessandro Orologio: Intrada; Lambert de Sayve: Sacrae Symphoniae; Da pacem Domine sustinentibus, introit for chorus; Dominus regnavit exultet; Missa "Dominus regnavit"; Rogate aque ad pacem sunt Jer...
Conductors: Tubéry, Jean
Ensemble: Ensemble la Fenice (France)

A beautiful reconstruction of de Sayve's music composed for the Archduke Matthias in 1612. These motets are associated with the Missa super Dominus Regnavit for...continue...

Missa Tournai / Brisset, Ensemble De Caelis

1 CD / Ricercar / 2008-07-08

Works: Philippe de Vitry: Impudenter circumivi/Virtutis laudabilis/Alma, motet; Gregorian Chant: Missa de Beata Maria Virgine; Anonymous, Flemish: Messe de Tournai; Anonymous, English: Ovet mundus laetabund...

Born from the creative ferment around the Papal chapel in Avignon, the Missa Tournai is undoubtedly the oldest polyphonic mass to have survived. Dedicated to...continue...

Morley: First Book of Consort Lessons / La Caccia, et al

1 CD / Ricercar / 2008-07-08

Works: Thomas Morley: Now is the month of maying; The First Booke of Consort Lessons (1599); Lord Souche's Maske; Joyne Hands, for consort of instruments (from "The First Booke of Consort Lessons"); Peter P...
Performers: Denecker, Patrick
Conductors: Denecker, Patrick
Ensemble: La Caccia

The Susanne van Soldt Virginal Book / Penson

1 CD / Ricercar / 2008-06-10

Works: Anonymous, Suzanne van Soldt Manuscript: Preludium, for keyboard; Brande Champanje, for keyboard; Almande de symmerman, for keyboard; Alemande Loreyne, for keyboard; Myn siele wilt den Herre, for key...
Performers: Denecker, Patrick; Penson, Guy

Dated 1599, the manuscript by Susanne van Soldt is a fascinating anthology of music for the virginal at the end of the Renaissance. The manuscript...continue...

Gabrieli: In festo sanctissimae trinitatis / Tubery, et al

1 CD / Ricercar / 2008-02-12

Works: Giovanni Gabrieli: Symphoniae sacrae, Book 2; Canzon no 2, for 6 parts, C. 196; Confitebor tibi Domine, motet for 13 voices; Canzon no 16, for 12 parts, C. 209; Jubilate Deo a 10; Canzon no 7, for 7 ...
Performers: Dominguez, Rosa; Dyck, Stephan Van; Mammel, Hans-Jorg
Conductors: Tubéry, Jean
Ensemble: Ensemble la Fenice (France)

Here, La Fenice and the Namur Chamber Choir give a second life to the music of Gabrieli. The program is devoted to the Feast of...continue...

Llibre Vermell / Millenarium

1 CD / Ricercar / 2008-02-12

Works: Anonymous, Llibre Vermell de Montserrat: Procession des pèlerins; Cuncti simus concanentes; Work(s); Mariam Matrem Virginem, virelai for 3 voices (Llibre Vermell); Los Set gotxs recomptarem; O...
Conductors: Deslignes, Christophe
Ensemble: Millenarium

This CD illustrates the music contained within the famous medieval manuscript from the Abbey of Monterrat: the 'Llibre Vermell'....continue...

Alfonso Ferrabosco Jr. & William Byrd: Consort Music

2 CD / Ricercar / 2008-01-08

Works: Anonymous: O Deathe, Rock Me A-Sleepe; Born Is the Babe; Complain with tears; Fie, fie, my fate; In Paradise; This Merry Pleasant Spring; Cuckoo; Anonymous, English: Come Tread the Paths of Pensive P...
Performers: Hamilton, Susan [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Pierlot, Philippe [Gamba]
Ensemble: Ricercar Consort

This CD, a new release in the English Consort Music collection from Ricercar, is devoted to two of the most important composers of the English...continue...

Palestrina, Lassus: Motteti, Madrigali, e Canzoni diminuiti / Tubery, La Fenice

1 CD / Ricercar / 2007-09-01

Works: Giovanni Battista Bovicelli: Variations on Palestrina's "Io son ferito"; Bartolome de Selma y Salaverde: Vestiva i colli passagiato a due (Canzoni, fantasie et correnti no 15); Francesco Rognoni: Var...
Performers: Aymes, Jean-Marc; Pluhar, Christina; Spaeter, Matthias; Tubery, Jean
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble la Fenice (France)

Concerto Imperiale - Monteverdi, etc / Tubéry, La Fenice

1 CD / Ricercar / 2007-09-01

Works: Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Intrada a 6 for 2 cornets, 4 trombones & continuo; Ballo de Gran Duca, for 3 viols, theorbo & harpsichord; Dario Castello: Sonate concertate in stil moderno Book 2; Giov...
Performers: Delcampe, Laure; Kennedy, Raphaele; Lamy, Herve [Tenor Vocals]; Mammel, Hans-Jorg; Sarragosse, Jean-Claude
Conductors: Tubéry, Jean
Ensemble: Ensemble la Fenice (France)

La Fenice and Jean Tubery play music by Italian musicians who had made a career in the courts of Ferdinand II and Ferdinand III....continue...

I Fiamminghi - Les champions des dames / Continens Paradisi

1 CD / Ricercar / 2007-09-01

Works: Martin le Franc: Le Champion des Dames, poetry; Guillaume Dufay: Bon jour, bon mois, bon an et bonne estraine, rondeau for 3 voices; Donnés l'assault a la fortresse, rondeau for 3 or 4 voices; J...
Performers: Ohara, Thais; Schikora, Markus; Weber, Witte
Conductors: Ohara, Marcelo
Ensemble: Continens Paradisi

Alexander Utendal: Fröliche neue teutsche und frantzösische Lieder

1 CD / Ricercar / 2007-09-01

Works: Alexander Utendal: Ich armer Mann (I, poor man), song; Ie seufre tourment (I endure torment), song; Iay mis mon affection (I give my affection), song; Mein Mann der ist in Krieg zogen (My husband has...
Performers: MacLeod, Stephan; Malfeyt, Philippe
Conductors: Malfeyt, Philippe
Ensemble: Romanesque

Bellissimo Splendore

1 CD / Ricercar / 2007-09-01

Works: Andries Pevernage: Je porte tes couleurs, for voices & ensemble; Cornelius Verdonck: Ave gratia, for vocal ensemble; Nicolaus a Kempis: Symphonia for recorder & harpsichord, Op 3/1; Nicolas Gistou: P...
Performers: Denecker, Patrick; Penson, Guy
Conductors:
Ensemble: La Caccia

Recording information: Chapelle de l'hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose (Lessines) (03/2005)....continue...

Die Deutsche Schalmey ou La naissance du hautbois baroque

1 CD / Ricercar / 2007-09-01

Works: Michael Praetorius: Terpsichore; Johann Christoph Pezel: Bicinia Variorum Instrumentarum (111); Johann Krieger: Ihr Hirten verlasset die Finstere Nacht, for voice & ensemble (from Neue Muzikalische E...
Performers: Lefilliatre, Claire; Papasergio, Jeremie
Conductors:
Ensemble: Les Corsaires du Roy

Per il Santissimo Natale

1 CD / Ricercar / 2007-09-01

Works: Ignazio Donati: Angelus Gabriel descendit, for voice & ensemble; Maurizio Cazzati: Alma redemptoris, for voice & chamber ensemble; Claudio Monteverdi: Angelus ad pastores ait, motet for 3 voices (fro...
Performers: Aymes, Jean-Marc; Elwes, John; Kiehr, Maria Cristina [Soprano Vocal]; Van Laethem, Katelijne [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble la Fenice (France)

Lantins, Brassart, Cesaris / Capilla Flamenca, et al

1 CD / Ricercar / 2007-09-01

Works: Johannes Brassart: Ave Maria Gratia Plena, motet; Regina coeli, motet; Gregorian Chant: Gaudeamus, introit; Epistola. Dominus possedit me; Benedicta et venerabilis es, gradual in mode 4; Letabundus, ...
Performers: Souvagie, Philippe
Conductors:
Ensemble: Capilla Flamenca; Clari Cantuli; Members of Oltremontano (Members); Psallentes