Ensemble Unicorn

The Early Music Recordings of Ensemble Unicorn, Vol. 1

5 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-06-26

Works: Syrian Traditional: Dinaresade; Christmas Traditional: Edi Beo Thu, Hevene Queene, carol (English); Macedonian Traditional: Nevestinko oro; Leonel Power: Beata progenies, for 3 voices; Bulgarian Trad...
Performers: Landauer, Bernhard; Sykes, Belinda
Conductors: ; Posch, Michael
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn; Oni Wytars

Some of the Naxos label's best early music recordings available together at a great price!...continue...

Oswald von Wolkenstein: Fröhlich, Zärtlich, Lieplich

1 CD / Raum Klang / 2011-11-03

Works: Oswald von Wolkenstein: Vil lieber Grüss; Wach auff mein hort!; Frölich zärtlich lieplich; Mich tröst ein adeliche mait; Ain graserin durch külen tau, K 85; Frolichen so well...
Performers: Boll, Agnes; Forster, Markus; Heinrich, Gernot; Oswald, Hermann
Conductors: Posch, Michael
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn

Oswald von Wolkenstein is today considered to be one of the most important songwriters of European literature in the Middle Ages.

Ensemble Unicorn has made early...continue...
Recording information: Wiener Hofburgkapelle (01/26/2009-01/30/2009)....continue...

Anonymous

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-07-28

Works: Sephardic Traditional: Avrix mi galanica (Let Me In, My Love); Esta montaña d'enfrente (This Mountain in Front); Sa'dâwî; Partos trocados (Babes Exchanged); Anonymous, German: Ich ...
Performers: Böhm, Bernhard; Schenale, Manuela
Conductors: Wimmer, Thomas; ; Posch, Michael; Summerly, Jeremy; Derrick, Graham; Turco, Alberto; King, Catherine
Ensemble: ; Accentus (Chamber Choir); Capilla Flamenca; Ciaramella; Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense; Ensemble Oni Wytars; Ensemble Unicorn; Estampie; Oxford Camerata; Rose Consort of Viols

Time of the Templars - Hildegard of Bingen, Vogelweide, etc / Derrick, Pitts, Summerly, Turco, Jeremy

3 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-05-27

Works: Walther von der Vogelweide: Palästinalied (Kreutzfahrlied) ("Nu alrest lebe ich mir werde"), song; Richard I Coeur-de-lion: Ja nuns hons pris, for consort; Blondel de Nesle: A l'entrant d'est&ea...
Performers: Cano, Carmen; Rumsey, Shirley; Schenale, Manuela
Conductors: Derrick, Graham; Posch, Michael; ; Summerly, Jeremy; Turco, Alberto; Pitts, Antony; Wimmer, Thomas
Ensemble: Accentus Austria (Early Music); Ensemble Oni Wytars; Ensemble Unicorn; Estampie; In Dulci Jubilo Children's Choir; Nova Schola Gregoriana; Oxford Camerata; Tonus Peregrinus

This 3 CD box takes the listener back to the Middle Ages, through Europe to the Holy Landin the footsteps of the Knight Templars. The...continue...

Discover - Early Music

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-11-01

Works: Ambrosian Chant: Antiphonae post Evangelium; Gregorian Chant: Adorabo, alleluia; Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo virtutum; Anonymous, 11th century French Polyphony: Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib....
Performers: Landauer, Bernhard; Linell, Dorothy; Richards, Steven; Rumsey, Shirley
Conductors: Turco, Alberto; Summerly, Jeremy; Pitts, Antony; Posch, Michael; Snellings, Dirk; ; Morel, Christine; Berger, Sven; Holten, Bo
Ensemble: Ars Nova Ensemble (Copenhagen); Capilla Flamenca; Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense; Ensemble Claude Goudimel; Ensemble Unicorn; Ensemble Villanella; In Dulci Jubilo Children's Choir; Nova Schola Greg...

The Medieval centuries sparked both the artistic Renaissance and the religious Reformation that followed. The time is rich with history but is it musically lost?...continue...

Da Vinci: Music Of His Time

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-05-01

Works: Guillaume Dufay: Helas mon dueil, a ce cop sui je mort, virelai for 3 voices; Missa L'Homme armé, for 4 voices; Heinrich Isaac: Carmen à 5, in 5 parts (textless, playable by instruments...
Performers: Rumsey, Shirley
Conductors: ; Berger, Sven; Posch, Michael; Summerly, Jeremy
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn; Ensemble Villanella; Oxford Camerata; Scholars of London

The Instruments of the Orchestra / Jeremy Siepmann

7 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-11-01

Works: Jeremy Siepmann: The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts; Anonymous, Troubadour: Domna, pos vos ay chausida; Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances (21) for orchestra, WoO 1; Con...
Performers: Andresen, Ivar; Banks, Kevin; Banowetz, Joseph; Biret, Idil; Bisengaliev, Marat; Bloch, Thomas; Bostridge, Ian; Burashko, Andrew; Cano, Carmen; Castets, Maryse; Chapelle, Corinne; Clynes, Mandred; Do...
Conductors: Elmendorff, Karl; Posch, Michael; Bogár, István; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Ward, Nicholas; Wildner, Johannes; Müller-Brühl, Helmut; Studt, Richard; Mogrelia, Andrew; Clark, Keith...
Ensemble: ; Accentus; Accentus Austria (Early Music); Almanac Singers; Aradia Ensemble; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Bournemouth Sinfonietta; BRT Philharmonic Orchestra; Brussels Belgian Radio & TV Philharmoni...

Not just a cursory overview of the instruments, this is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts (orchestral, chamber, folk,...continue...

Early Music - Carmina Burana / Posch, Ambrosini, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-10-01

Works: Anonymous, Carmina Burana: Bacche, bene venies, CB 200; Axe Phebus aureo, CB 71; Clauso chronos, CB 73; Katerine Collaudemus, CB Supplementum 19; Fas et nefas, CB 19; Tempus transit gelidum, CB 153; ...
Performers: Landauer, Bernhard; Mentzel, Eric; Rabanser, Peter
Conductors: Posch, Michael
Ensemble: Ensemble Oni Wytars; Ensemble Unicorn

"Carmina Burana" literally means "Songs of Beunen". It is a collection of poems and songs in medieval Latin and Middle High German, found in the...continue...

The World of Early Music

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-12-13

Works: Gregorian Chant: Kyrie; In Paradisum Angeli; Hildegard von Bingen: O pastor animarum; Richard I Coeur-de-lion: Ja nuns hons pris, for consort; Walther von der Vogelweide: Palästinalied (Kreutzfa...
Performers: Cano, Carmen; Christie, James David; Landauer, Bernhard; Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Payne, Joseph; Posch, Michael; Richards, Steven; Rumsey, Shirley; Schenale, Manuela; Wilson, Christ...
Conductors: Turco, Alberto; Randon, Alessio; Summerly, Jeremy; ; Holten, Bo; Wimmer, Thomas; Vartolo, Sergio; Morel, Christine; Fasolis, Diego; Bychkov, Semyon; Crees, Eric; Mallon, Kevin; Niquet, Hervé; Kr...
Ensemble: ; Accentus Austria (Early Music); Aradia Ensemble; Capella Istropolitana; Ensemble Unicorn; Les Voix Humaines; London Baroque; Rose Consort of Viols; Scholars Baroque Ensemble; Westra Aros Pijpare

Early Music - Agricola: Fortuna Desperata / Ensemble Unicorn

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-04-28

Works: Alexander Agricola: A la mignonne de fortune; Adieu m'amour (1); Adieu m'amour (2); Allez, regretz; Guarde vostre visage (1); S'il vous plaist; Et qui la dira; De tous bein plaine I a 3; De tous bein...
Conductors: Posch, Michael
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn

Alexander Agricola was so famous in his lifetime that the Roayl Courts of Europe vied for his services, and when he did try to escape...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...

Early Music - Codex Faenza / Posch, Ensemble Unicorn

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1998-05-25

Works: Anonymous, Italian: Biance flour; Anonymous, Codex Faenza: Untitled (Codex Faenza); Le Ior; Bel fiore dança, 2-part intabulation for keyboard; Francesco Landini: Non avrà mai piet&agrav...
Conductors: Posch, Michael
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn

"This important manuscript of the early 15th century provides instrumental arrangements of 14th-century vocal music...This disc would grace any full-price catalog." -Weber, Fanfare...continue...

Early Music - The Black Madonna / Posch, Ensemble Unicorn

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1998-03-27

Works: Anonymous, Llibre Vermell de Montserrat: Cuncti simus concanentes; Mariam Matrem Virginem, virelai for 3 voices (Llibre Vermell); O Virgo splendens, canon for 3 voices (Llibre Vermell); Los Set gotxs...
Performers: Landauer, Bernhard; Sykes, Belinda
Conductors: Posch, Michael
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn

One of the most significant centers of pilgrimage during the Middle Ages was the Monastery of Montserrat, near Barcelona, Spain, with its miraculous Black Madonna....continue...
Recording information: W.A.R. Studio, Germany (05/17/1996-05/21/1996)....continue...

The Glory Of Early Music - Dufay, Obrecht, Isaac, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-11-14

Works: Anonymous: Saltarello No 3; Turkish Traditional: Düdül; Macedonian Traditional: Nevestinko oro; French Traditional: Quinte estampi real; Anonymous, Italian: Saltarellos 1-4 (GB-LBl Add.2998...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense; Ensemble Unicorn; Ensemble Villanella

Includes work(s) by Francesco Canova da Milano....continue...

History of Classical Music

4 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-08-01

Works: Gregorian Chant: Chant for Good Friday; Anonymous: Ambrosian Chant for Epiphany; Je Ne Puis . . . Amors Me Tienent . . . Veritatem, for consort; Oy voy; Hildegard von Bingen: Work(s); Pérotin: P...
Performers: Éder String Quartet; Biret, Idil; Cuckston, Alan; Elsner, Kasia; Fawkes, Richard; Harper, Thomas [Tenor Vocal]; Hill, Peter H.; Jandó, Jenö; Kliegel, Maria; Kodaly Quartet; La Scol...
Conductors: ; Antal, Mátyás; Warchal, Bohdan; Kraemer, Nicholas; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Gmür, Hanspeter; Ward, Nicholas; Wordsworth, Barry; Halász, Michael; Wildner, Johannes; Kosler, Zdenek;...
Ensemble: ; Accentus Austria (Early Music); Capella Istropolitana; Capella Musicale di S. Petronio di Bologna; Ensemble Unicorn; Gothic Voices; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra & Chorus; In Dulci Jubilo Childre...

Dufay: Chansons / Posch, Landauer, Ensemble Unicorn

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1996-05-02

Works: Guillaume Dufay: J'ay mis mon cuer; Par droit je puis bien complaindre et gemir, rondeau for 3 or 4 voices; Work(s); Puisque vous estez campieur; Belle, que vous ay je meffait, rondeau for 3 voices; ...
Performers: Landauer, Bernhard
Conductors: Posch, Michael
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn

"Someone remarked to me recently that if the world were destroyed and only one composer's music could be saved, he would want it to be...continue...

On the Way to Bethlehem / Ensemble Oni Wytars, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1995-10-02

Works: Syrian Traditional: Dinaresade; Christmas Traditional: Edi Beo Thu, Hevene Queene, carol (English); Macedonian Traditional: Nevestinko oro; Leonel Power: Beata progenies, for 3 voices; Bulgarian Trad...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Oni Wytars; Ensemble Unicorn

An Introduction to Early Music - Hildegard of Bingen, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1995-08-28

Works: Gregorian Chant: Responsorium Graduale for Good Friday; Factus est repente, communio; Hildegard von Bingen: O viridissima virga; Anonymous, Italian: Chominciamento di gioia; Belicha, for consort; Sal...
Performers: Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Outram, Rebecca; Parkins, Robert; Payne, Joseph; Rumsey, Shirley; Wilson, Christopher [Lute]
Conductors: Turco, Alberto; ; Summerly, Jeremy
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn; In Dulci Jubilo; Nova Schola Gregoriana; Oxford Camerata; Scholars of London

Alfonso X: Cantigas de Santa Maria / Ensemble Unicorn

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1995-06-07

Works: Alfonso X: Cantigas de Santa María; Cantiga de Santa María 18, Por nos de dulta tirar; Cantiga de Santa María 259, Santa María punna d' aviir; Cantiga de Santa María 213, Q...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn

Chominciamento di gioia / Ensemble Unicorn

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1994-09-19

Works: Anonymous, Italian: Chominciamento di gioia; Lamento di Tristano, estampie; Bellicha (British Library Ms. 29987); Tre fontane; Principio di virtú, istanpitta; Saltarello no 1 (GB-LBl Add.29987);...
Performers: Ambrosini, Marco; Delfino, Riccardo; Posch, Michael; Reithofer, Wolfgang; Wimmer, Thomas
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn