Best of Medieval and Renaissance Eras

More than 600 recordings featuring music by some of the greatest Medieval and Renaissance Era composers — Palestrina, Byrd, Monteverdi, and more — are on sale now at ArkivMusic!

Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Monday, December 30, 2024.

  • Praetorius & Schutz: Sacred Works in Parallel Settings / Cordes, Weser-Renaissance
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    Praetorius & Schutz: Sacred Works in Parallel Settings / Cordes, Weser-Renaissance

    $11.99 Regular price $18.99

    In our series "Music from Wolfenbüttel Castle," the sixth concert in the series featured and recorded parallel settings of sacred works by Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz. One does not immediately think of counting the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 06, 2023

  • Hildegard, Moody, Young, Wishart: Hildegard Portraits / Voice
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    Hildegard, Moody, Young, Wishart: Hildegard Portraits / Voice

    $9.99 Regular price $20.99

    SOMM Recordings announces the exciting label debut of the trio Voice with Hildegard Portraits, marking the tenth anniversary of the canonization of the 12th-century spiritual leader, theologian, mystic, scientist and composer, St. Hildegard of Bingen....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 18, 2022

  • Tudor Church Music - The Anglican Easter Liturgy / London Ambrosian Singers
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    Tudor Church Music - The Anglican Easter Liturgy / London Ambrosian Singers

    $13.99 Regular price $21.99

    To be exact, we should include in the Tudor Church music only the period prior to 1549 and consider Robert Fayrfax (1464–1521) and Hugh Aston (died 1522) as the first Tudor composers. They were succeeded...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 18, 2022

  • Byrd: Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds / Pienaar
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    Byrd: Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds / Pienaar

    $17.99 Regular price $26.99

    Daniel-Ben Pienaar continues his campaign of performing early music on a modern piano with an abundant selection of Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds by William Byrd. The 16th-century composer’s finest sets of dances and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 18, 2022

  • Dufay & Ockeghem: The Splendour of Florence with a Burgundian Resonance
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    Dufay & Ockeghem: The Splendour of Florence with a Burgundian Resonance

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Following its Gramophone Editor’s Choice album Echoes of an Old Hall, Medieval expert Gothic Voices has recorded The Splendour of Florence, a collection of Franco-Flemish music that was found in or associated with Florence. Occupying...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 11, 2022

  • Dowland, Gorlinsky, Huwet, Milano, Narvaez & Visee: Vanishing Point
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    Dowland, Gorlinsky, Huwet, Milano, Narvaez & Visee: Vanishing Point

    $13.99 Regular price $21.99

    Sofie Vanden Eynde writes of her newest release: “Would it be possible to articulate the inner reality of a burnout musically: to make a burnout audible, tangible, understandable and, who knows, avoidable? The result is...


    Format: Vinyl

    Release Date: November 11, 2022

  • Machaut: Remede de Fortune / Les Délices & Blue Heron
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    Machaut: Remede de Fortune / Les Délices & Blue Heron

    $13.99 Regular price $21.99

    A New Yorker Notable Recording of 2022! A feast of poetry, song, and visual art animated by a surprisingly Zen-like philosophy, Guillaume de Machaut’s Remede de Fortune tells the tale of a woebegone lover who is counseled...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 04, 2022

  • Capriccio's 40th Anniversary: Vocal Soloists from Bartoli to Vargas
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    Capriccio's 40th Anniversary: Vocal Soloists from Bartoli to Vargas

    $30.99 Regular price $47.99

    After collections celebrating the label’s 40th year that focused on sacred, orchestral, and chamber/soloist music, respectively, Capriccio’s fourth and last Anniversary Box now features the singing stars in the label’s history. There’s that pioneer of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 04, 2022

  • Dowland & Purcell: Silent Dance / Koell
    Dowland & Purcell: Silent Dance / Koell

    $20.99

    Since 2020, Margret Koell, a proven specialist in historical harps, has been in possession of a "Welsh Triple Harp". It is a copy of an instrument by the famous harp maker Evans, whose original from...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 21, 2022

  • A Bird Fancyer's Delight / Ensemble Sonorità
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    A Bird Fancyer's Delight / Ensemble Sonorità

    $13.99 Regular price $21.99

    “What a whimsical and diverse play between the poles of "nature" and "art" unfolds here! Rich in color and immensely playful, the Ensemble Sonorità knows how to plumb the space between these poles with the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 21, 2022

  • Bruckner Spectrum / Erny, Zurich Chamber Singers
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    Bruckner Spectrum / Erny, Zurich Chamber Singers

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Renaissance polyphony and contemporary sound clouds orbit around vocal late Romanticists like satellites. The Zurich Chamber Singers, conducted by Christian Erny, unearth a special narrative drama. Starting with Anton Bruckner, they turn their attention to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 21, 2022

  • Brumel, Martini, Ockeghem & Regis: The Sword & the Lily / Fount & Origin
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    Brumel, Martini, Ockeghem & Regis: The Sword & the Lily / Fount & Origin

    $11.99 Regular price $18.99

    In their debut album, early music ensemble Fount & Origin present a musical meditation on the Franco-Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden’s altarpiece image of The Last Judgement at the End of time. This multi-paneled...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 21, 2022

  • Aylward, Balch, Kurtág & E. Praetorius: Immensity Of... / Departure Duo
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    Aylward, Balch, Kurtág & E. Praetorius: Immensity Of... / Departure Duo

    $11.99 Regular price $18.99

    Departure Duo (Nina Guo, soprano and Edward Kass, bass) releases their debut recording, "Immensity Of," including works by Katherine Balch, John Aylward, Emily Praetorius, and György Kurtág. By featuring three works written for them alongside...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 07, 2022

  • Hildegard von Bingen: Sacred Chants / Grace Davidson
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    Hildegard von Bingen: Sacred Chants / Grace Davidson

    $12.99 Regular price $19.99

    Grace Davidson presents her third release with Signum Classics, an intimate disc of Sacred Chants by Hildegard von Bingen, translations by Jeremy Summerly. Hildegard was an extremely accomplished composer, as well as a scientist, a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 07, 2022

  • Byrd: Psalmes, Songs & Sonnets (1611) / The Sixteen, Fretwork
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    Byrd: Psalmes, Songs & Sonnets (1611) / The Sixteen, Fretwork

    $20.99 Regular price $32.99

    The Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets of 1611 was William Byrd’s final publication. And what a superbly fitting culmination to a lifetime of musical service it is! As well as being packed with variety and invention...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 07, 2022