Renaissance Period > Archlute

Venetian Art 1600 - The New Instrumental Style by G.B. Fontana & G.B. Buonamente / Le Concert Brisé, Dongois

1 CD / Accent Import / 2012-11-04

Works: Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Sinfonia no 6 for cornet & ensemble; Gagliarda seconda; Corrente Ottava; Sonata Quarta à 2 (Book 6); Sonata no 9 à 3 ("Questo e quel luoco"); Sonata Prima ...
Performers: Bauml, Katharina; Dongois, William; Lohff, Carsten; Moran, Christine; Spaeter, Matthias
Conductors: Dongois, William
Ensemble: ; Le Concert Brisé

The first sonatas composed at the beginning of the seventeenth century reflect the fundamental change that has taken place in vocal music around 1700. Starting...continue...
Recording information: Berlin-Spandau, Johannesstift (07/14/2011-07/19/2011)....continue...

Nouveau Monde: Baroque Arias and Songs by Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and George Frideric Handel / Patricia Petibon, soprano

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2012-10-30

Works: José de Nebra: Vendado es amor, no es ciego; Henry Le Bailly: Yo soy la locura (Passacalle de La Folie); Anonymous: Cachua, improvisation on a melody recogida by Baltasar Martínez Compa...
Performers: Almada, Lincoln; Grare, Joël; Greenlaw, Kevin [Baritone vocal]; Hamon, Pierre; Mascardi, Evangelina; Petibon, Patricia; Rodriguez, Josias
Conductors: Marcon, Andrea
Ensemble: ; La Cetra

Admired for her remarkable creative imagination and exemplary musicianship, soprano Patricia Petibon, in her newest album for Deutsche Grammophon, offers a treasure-trove of fascinating Baroque...continue...
Recording information: Martinskirche in Basel, Switzerland (02/2012)....continue...

Recitar Cantando / Morini, Beasley, Accordone

1 CD / Cypress / 2012-07-01

Works: Cherubino Busatti: Angela siete; Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonata no 16 for violin, 2 cornettos, harp & continuo; Sonata no 8 for 2 violins & continuo; Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo; Madrigals, Book 7...
Performers: Beasley, Marco; Morini, Guido; Pavan, Franco; Rocco, Stefano
Conductors: Morini, Guido;
Ensemble: Accordone

Lars Wivallius: Ack, Libertas! Songs from the 17th Century / Martin Bagge, vocals; Mikael Paulsson, theorbo

1 CD / Footprints / 2012-04-24

Works: Swedish Traditional: Ack libertas, du ädla ting!; Klagevisa över denna torra och kalla vår; Min hjärtans tröst och lilja; Gustavus ein Schwed geboren; Som en sjöman uti...
Performers: Bagge, Martin; Paulsson, Mikael
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Mare Balticum

Lars Wivallius (1605 - 69) was one of Sweden's most talented poets in the 17th century, but he was also quite a rascal. Many a...continue...
Recording information: Yllan, Kristianstad, Sweden (03/30/2011-04/01/2011)....continue...

Alessandro Piccinini: Works for archlute / Rosario Conte, archlute

1 CD / Carpe Diem / 2012-01-31

Works: Alessandro Piccinini: Toccata no 8, for lute (from Intavolatura di Liuto, Book 2); Gagliarda no 4 (Intavolatura di Liuto, Book 2); Corrente no 2 (Intavolatura di Liuto, Book 2); Toccata 12 (from Inta...
Performers: Conte, Rosario

In his new solo archlute recital, the Italian lutenist Rosario Conte plays works by Alessandro Piccinini and his son, Leonardo Maria Piccinini, in a very...continue...
Recording information: Convento dell'Annunziata., Rovato, Brescia, Italy (08/24/2011-08/27/2011)....continue...

Il Giardino Armonico play Bach, Biber, Corelli, Locke, Monteverdi, Rossi, Vivaldi

11 CD / Warner Classics / 2011-05-31

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria; Dario Castello: Ciaccona; Sonata quarta, for 2 instruments & continuo no 4 in A minor (Sonata Concertate I/4); Sonate concertate in stil moderno Boo...
Performers: Dantone, Ottavio; Onofri, Enrico; Pianca, Luca
Conductors: Antonini, Giovanni
Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico; Innsbruck Trumpet Consort

"Il Giardino Armonico's performances burst with freshness and prove how exciting original instruments can be" (USA Today). The career of Il Giardino Armonico, the award...continue...

Odi Euterpe: Italian Monody In Early 17th Century

1 CD / Glossa / 2010-07-08

Works: Giulio Caccini: Nuove musiche e nuova maniera de scriverle; Amor, io parto; Le nuove musiche; Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger: Toccata for lute no 1; Toccata Arpeggiata for lute (from Book 1 of D'Intr...
Performers: Costoyas, Dolores; Dominguez, Rosa; Pustilnik, Monica

Artists:
Rosa Dominguez, mezzo-soprano; Monica Pustilnik, archlute, Renaissance guitar and organ; Dolores Costoyas, theorbo and Baroque guitar...continue...
Recording information: Chiesa di Santa Giulia a Caprona, Pisa, Italy (09/2008)....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...

Giulio Caccini: Il Cantar d'Affetto

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2010-01-12

Works: Anonymous, Italian: Saltarello; Giulio Caccini: Mentre che fra doglie e pene, for voice & continuo; Queste Lagrim'amare; Sfogava Con Le Stelle; Non ha'l ciel; Amor, io parto; Nuove musiche e nuova ma...
Performers: Ansermet, Claudine; Cherici, Paolo

Marescotti published Giulio Caccini's collection Le nuove musiche in Florence in 1602. Caccini's collection embodies the new way of composing and the new manner of...continue...
Recording information: Villa Bradamante, Parzanica, Bergamo, Italy (03/2009)....continue...

Albergati: Corona dei Pregi di Maria Op. 13; Victoria / Oliva, Aureli, Mazzoni, Rocco, Ensemble La Flora

1 CD / Tactus / 2009-03-10

Works: Tomás Luis de Victoria: Sancta Maria succure miseris - Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548-1; Senex puerum portabat; Ne timeas, Maria; Vidi speciosam; Congratulamini mihi, motet for 6 voices;...
Performers: Mazzoniu, Matteo; Oliva, Alida; Rocco, Stefano
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble La Flora

D'India: Sacred Vocal Music / Elyma Ensemble

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2008-04-01

Works: Sigismondo D'India: Le musiche, book 1; Le musiche, book 2; Hor che per l'onde; Ne le grotte atre e profonde; O bramato Arione; Il primo libro de madrigali; Le musiche, book 5; Secondo libro dei madr...
Performers: Barazzoni, Maurizia; Caruso, Giovanni; Ercoli, Olga; Nappo, Gino; Polsini, Luigi; Ronchetti, Paola; Thyssen, Margarethe; Viola, Matelda; Volta, Sandro
Conductors:
Ensemble: Elyma Ensemble

Behind the somewhat exotic name of Sigismondo D’India is a musician of enormous stature. In the first quarter of the seventeenth century only the great...continue...

Echo de Paris - Parisian Love Songs 1610-1660 / Pitzl, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Accent / 2007-02-04

Works: Pierre Guédron: Quoy? faut-il donc qu'Amour
Performers: Contini, Luciano; Pitzl, Pierre; Sandlands, Hugh; Van Dyck, Stephan
Conductors: Pitzl, Pierre
Ensemble: Private Musicke

Slowly but surely ensembles are discovering the French music before Louis XIV, and of course it comes at no surprise that excellent music was played...continue...

The Best of Andreas Scholl

1 CD / Decca Import / 2006-10-10

Works: George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; Rodelinda; Rinaldo; Giulio Cesare; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Antonio Vivaldi: Salve Regina, antiphon for voice, double chorus, 2 recorders, flute, double stri...
Performers: Armstrong, Siobhán; Bonney, Barbara; Brough, Harvey; Dantone, Ottavio; Karamazov, Edin; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Na, Hyun-Sun; Scholl, Andreas; Shames, Stacey
Conductors: Norrington, Roger; Dyer, Paul; Dantone, Ottavio; Rousset, Christophe
Ensemble: ; Accademia Bizantina; Les Talens Lyriques

The essential collection featuring one-of-a-kind countertenor Andreas Scholl, who burst on the music scene in 1999 to critical acclaim. "Scholl's voice rushes through the bloodstream."...continue...

Songs from the Labyrinth

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2006-10-10

Works: John Dowland: Walsingham, song arranged for lute, P 67; Can she excuse, P 42; Letters (correspondence with family and friends); Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; King of Denmark, his Galliard, P 40; Third ...
Performers: Karamazov, Edin; Sting

This autumn Sting ventures into "new" musical territory with an album featuring the music of acclaimed Elizabethan songwriter, John Dowland (1563-1626). Sting is joined on...continue...
Personnel: Sting (vocals, archlute); Edin Karamazov (lute, archlute).

Recording information: metropolis Studios, London, England; Steerpike Studios, II Palagio, Italy.

It probably would ...continue...

Love Songs from Five Centuries / Bothe, Croton

1 CD / Centaur / 2006-10-01

Works: Girolamo Frescobaldi: Primo libro d'arie musicali per cantarsi; Claudio Monteverdi: Dolci miei sospiri; Madrigals, Book 9; Sigismondo d'India: Le musiche, book 1; Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger: Tocc...
Performers: Bothe, Theresia; Croton, Peter

La Sfondrata - Italian Early Baroque / Hoffman, et al

1 CD / Aeolus / 2006-07-01

Works: G.A. Pandolfi-Mealli: Sonatas (6) for Violin and Basso Continuo, Op. 3; Sonatas (6) for Violin and Basso Continuo, Op. 4; Giovanni Kapsberger: Libro I d'intavolatura di lauto; Libro IV d'intavolatura...
Performers: Bleich, Thorsten; Hoffmann, Claudia; Müller-Mohr, Matthias

Art music changed considerably around 1600, especially in Italy. The vocal polyphonic music of the Renaissance was slowly superseded by a monodic style, which was...continue...

Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum / Picotti, et al

1 CD / CPO / 2006-06-20

Works: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Fourth Book of Motets from Canticis cantoricum, for 5 voices
Performers: Prosser, Pietro; Zanon, Vittorio

In 1584 Palestrina published his twenty-nine-part cycle Canticum Canticorum consisting of five-part motets to verses from the Song of Solomon, the Song of Songs. He...continue...

Jerry Willard Plays! - Four Centuries of Lute and Guitar

1 CD / Lyrichord / 2004-09-21

Works: Cesare Negri: Bianco fiore (from Le gratie d'amore); Oscar Chilesotti: Vaghe bellezze et bionde trezze d'oro, for lute or guitar (transcription of anonymous work from 16th; Santino Garsi: Galliarda; ...
Performers: Willard, Jerry

New York-based lute/guitar player Jerry Willard takes us on a masters tour of the development of the most popular stringed instrument in the world, starting...continue...

For Your Life - For Your Baby

1 CD / Decca / 2004-01-13

Works: Johannes Brahms: Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 49; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Variations (12) for Piano in C major on "Ah vous dirai-je maman", K 265 (300e); Sonata for Piano no 15 in C major ("Sona...
Performers: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The; Ambrosini, Jean-Claude; Arrau, Claudio; BBC Concert Orchestra; Berry, Walter; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Burrowes, Norma; English Chamber Orchestra; Eschenba...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Solti, Sir Georg; Judd, James; Wordsworth, Barry; Ozawa, Seiji; Previn, Andre; Davis, Carl; Munchinger, Karl
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; BBC Concert Orchestra; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

This selection contains both ADD and DDD recordings.

Personnel: Marilyn Horne (mezzo soprano); Naoko Yoshino (harp); Toyohiko Satoh (lute); Christian Ferras (violin); Julian Lloyd Webber (cel...continue...

Tromboncino: Dulces Exuviae / Baldassari, Les Nations

1 CD / Tactus / 2001-09-04

Works: Bartolomeo Tromboncino: Sú, sú, leva, alza le ciglia; A la guerra a la guerra; Vale diva, vale in pace; Hor che'l ciel e la terra; Deus in adiutorium; Occhi mei, lassi; Si è debi...
Performers: Baldassari, Maria Luisa; Biscuola, Elena; Crescimanno, Fabio; Croce, Rossella; Croce, Teresina; Favari, Andrea; Lupo, Luigi; Monkobodzky, Pamela; Muzzatti, Marco; Oliva, Alida; Pascucci, Massimo; Roc...
Conductors: Baldasarri, Maria Luisa
Ensemble: Ensemble Les Nations

Andreas Scholl - A Musicall Banquet

1 CD / Decca Import / 2001-03-13

Works: Antony Holborne: My heavy sprite; John Dowland: Lady if you so spite me, for voice, lute & bass viol (A Musical Banquet); In darkness let mee dwell; An Work(s); Work(s); Farre from triumphing court; ...
Performers: Karamazov, Edin; Markl, Markus; Scholl, Andreas

"A Musicall Banquet" from countertenor Andreas Scholl is a beautiful collection of songs from the zenith of the Renaissance. Robert Dowland described his 1610 publication...continue...

Guillaume de Machaut: Le Lay de Confort / Little Consort

1 CD / Channel Classics / 1998-08-01

Works: Anonymous: O Virgo Splendens; Très Doulx Compains; Gregorian Chant: Salve Regina, antiphon in mode 1; Guillaume de Machaut: S'onques douleureusement ("Lay de confort"), lai for 3 voices
Performers: Boeke, Kees; Bruggen, Frans [Conductor]; Hauwe, Walter Van; Meeuwsen, Lucia; Satoh, Toyohiko