Early Music / Chant CDs
Early Music / Chant CDs
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Ach, Homo Fragilis
RUSSIAN MEDIEVAL CHANT
Compline And Other Chant
Romance / Brio
This unique collaboration of some of early music's most esteemed artists performing with period instruments and featuring the beautiful young Brazilian countertenor, José Lemos, truly showcases the exquisite melodies and exciting dance pieces that define the Sephardic culture of early Spain.
English Royal Funeral Music: Purcell, Morley, Tomkins
We know now that Purcell's three Funeral Sentences were not written for the funeral of Queen Mary in 1695. Following the tradition of the English court, it was pieces by Thomas Morley, originally written for the funeral of Elizabeth I, that were sung there. Purcell's only contribution to the ceremony was the composition of two pieces for slide trumpets (March and Canzona), and the anthem in the archaic style Thou knowest, Lord. During the funeral procession to Westminster Abbey, a band of oboes played two marches written by John Paisible and Thomas Tollet. This recording assembles the music composed for the funeral of Queen Mary and that used at the funeral of Elizabeth I in 1603. The programme is completed by Purcell's sublime a cappella anthems and a moving anthem by Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley. After the success of the recording of Schütz's Musicalische Exequien, voted Record of the Year by Gramophone magazine, this disc will be one of the major events of spring 2013.
ISTANPITTA: Dances of 14th Century Florence
Josquin Des Pres - Master Of Musicians
Includes work(s) by various composers, Josquin Des Préz, Heinrich Isaac, Jean Japart, Alexander Agricola, Alonso, Tylman Susato. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua of London. Conductor: Philip Thorby.
MACHAUT: Motets and Music from the Ivrea Codex
The Vanishing Nordic Chorale / Musik Ekklesia
Field, J.: Piano Music
Baroque Music of Latin America / Palacios, Camerata Renacentista de Caracas
The progress of Spanish colonization in the New World through the 16th and 17th century was such that during the Baroque Era the state of classical music was more advanced in Latin America than it was up north. This ambitious collection of vocal pieces by the Venezuelan early music group Camerata Renacentista de Caracas shows the geographical breadth, if not the stylistic variety, of the Latin American baroque with composers, nearly all of Spanish birth, who were based in Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. Many of the selections are villancicos, a ubiquitous Spanish poetic form from the 15th century which lent itself to music, often with instrumental accompaniment, both secular and sacred: in the latter development, of which there are several examples here, it became a type of Christmas carol. By and large this is lovely and invigorating music, given alert and agile performances.
Dufay - Sacred Music From Bologna Q15 / Clerks' Group
If you're an early music fan, you'll be right at home with this mostly male ensemble's finely focused, reedy sound (there's one woman among the group's six members, veteran alto Lucy Ballard), and there's no letting down of energy or concentration throughout the longest phrases within individual motets or across the more extended mass movements. The closely recorded voices and overall bright sonic quality wears a bit after 15 or 20 minutes, but you can't fault the singing, which brings a vibrant, assured presence to these ancient works; and if you're looking for fine, clearly sung, stylistically conscientious performances, you really can't go wrong here.
--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com
Byzantium In Rome / Cappella Romana
This release by Cappella Romana is a breathtaking collection of Medieval Byzantine Chant sung from manuscripts made at the Abbey of Grottaferrata in the suburban hills of Rome, which has operated continuously in the Byzantine rite since its founding, before the Great Schism, in 1004. During the Middle Ages, Grottaferrata was the site of an important scriptorium, the surviving manuscripts of which bear precious witness to musical repertories sung in Constantinople before the Crusader sack of 1204.
Led by virtuoso cantor Ioannis Arvanitis, Cappella Romana recaptures on this recording the artistic vibrancy of medieval Italy's Greek minority with ecstatic 13th-century chants. Disc one is devoted to the life and work of the monastery's founders St. Neilos and St. Bartholomew, including kontakia in their honor, and an excerpt of a kanon for St. Benedict that was very likely composed for a Greek-rite all-night vigil at the Benedictine community at Montecassino in Sicily. Disc two features music for Pentecost, beginning with excerpts of its two kanons, the alleluiarion, and the communion verse for the feast. The central work on disc two is the Teleutaion (Final Antiphon) of the kneeling vespers in the medieval cathedral rite, featuring extended psalmody and ecstatic settings of the angelic refrain "Alleluia," foreshadowing the beautified ("kalophonic") chant of St. John Koukouzeles.
The booklet features a substantial essay on the music and its context by musicologist and Cappella Romana artistic director Dr. Alexander Lingas, and complete original texts in Greek with English translations by Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash). Beautiful photography of the Byzantine Abbey of Grottaferrata, taken on Cappella Romana's tour there in May 2006, illustrates the booklet, as well as a sample of medieval Byzantine notation (as opposed to contemporary notation in the received tradition) drawn from the opening verse of the Teleutaion in the Grottaferrata manuscript Psaltikon Ashburnamensis 64. The CDs combined feature over 82 minutes of music. Two CDs (CD1: The Founders of Grottaferrata; CD2: The Feast of Pentecost).
GRIEG / GADE: Sacred Choral Works
SONGBOOK FOR ISABELLA (A)
QUEEN'S GOODNIGHT (THE)
GUERRERO: Vespers for All Saints / Requiem Mass
Music For Charles V / Dixon, Chapelle Du Roi
Includes work(s) by various composers. Ensemble: Chapelle du Roi. Conductor: Alistair Dixon.
Lassus: Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae / Requiem
MADAME D'AMOURS - Music for the 6 Wives of Henry VIII
Anniversary Series - Early Music Collection
various cordaria,chappelle du roi; charivari agreable; the clerks group;Gabrieli Consort; The king's Singers early music collection anniversary series
Palestrina, G.P. Da: Choral Music (O Magnum Mysterium)
Music From The Sistine Chapel / The Sixteen
Includes work(s) by Felice Anerio, Giovanni Palestrina, Gregorio Allegri. Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
Hildegard of Bingen: Vocal Ensemble Music
