DANCES FROM TERPSICHORE

Michael Praetorius

Westra Aros Pijpare

 

Naxos

ALCHEMY
An Exploration of Folk and Early Music
Emily Askew Band

Askew Music

BYRD

Consort and Keyboard Music, Songs and Anthems

William Byrd

Rose Consort of Viols

Red Byrd - vocal ensemble

Timothy Roberts - keyboards

 

Naxos

HIGH LOW AND IN BETWEEN
THE LATE GREAT TOWNES VAN ZANDT
Townes Van Zandt

EMI Acoustic Highway double album cd

LOVE IS REAL
The Music of Esbjörn Svensson
Ulf Wakenus - guitars, arrangements
radio.string.quartet.vienna
- Lars Danielson - double bass, cello
- Morten Lund - drums, percussion
- Lars Jansson - piano

ACT

EL ARTE DE FANTASÍA
El libro de circa nueva (1557)
Luis Venegas de Henestrosa
The Harp Consort
Hille Perl - viola da gamba
Lee Santana - vihuela, cittern
Steven Player - Renaissance guitar, percussion
Helen Coombs - organ, harpsichord
Andrew Lawrence-King - director, harps & psaltery

Harmonia Mundi

MUSIC FOR ALFONSO THE WISE

Cantigas de Amigo

Martin Codax

The Dufay Collective

Harmonia Mundi USA

CRYE

Melancholy in Late 16th Century English Music

Anthony Holborne - Christopher Tye - Richard Sumarte - Tobias Hume - Henry Stonings - Thomas Tallis - Robert Johnson - Thomas Weelkes - William Lawes

Concordia - viols

- Mark Levy

- Joanna Levine

- Catherine Finnis

- Jonathon Manson

- Emilia Benjamin

with Gary Cooper - virginals, organ 

Metronome

TRESORS MOYEN-ÂGE

11th - 15th Centuries; Excerpts from works by 

Hildegard von Bingen, Richard Coeur du Lion, Perotin Magnus, Guillaume de Machaut, Philippe de Viery, John Dunstaple, Martim Codax, Domenico du Piacenza, Jean Legrant, Antonio Cornazano, Cono de Bethune, Jehan de Lescurel

Sequentia

Bären Gässlen

Clemencic Consort

Dominique Vellard - Emmanuel Bonnardot
Collegium Aureum
The Harp Consort
Pro Cantione Antiqua
Sarband

Deller Consort

Ensemble Percival

Montserrat Figueras - Thomas Binkley

RCA Red Seal Suisse

4 CD Box Set

PESCODD TIME

William Byrd - John Bull - Peter Philips

Bertrand Cuiller - harpsichord, virginal 

Alpha Classics

DREAMS & PRAYERS
Explores music's role in religious mysticism as the ultimate passageway between the physical and the spiritual
Hildegard von Bingen - Mehmet Ali Sanhkol - Osvaldo Golijov - Ludwig van Beethoven
A Far Cry
David Krakauer - clarinet
Miki-Sophia Cloud - curator

Crier Records

CHRIST LAG IN TODES BANDEN
BWV 4
EASTER ORATORIO
BWV 249
Johann Sebastian Bach
Emma Kirkby, Emily Van Evera, Evelyn Tubb - sopranos
Margaret Cable, Caroline Trevor - altos
Howard Cook, Charles Daniels, Wilfried Jochens - tenors
Stephen Charlesworth, Simon Grant, David Thomas, Peter Kooy - basses
Taverner Consort
Taverner Players
Andrew Parrott - director

Virgin Veritas

ST MATTHEW PASSION
Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244
Johann Sebastian Bach
Gabrieli Players
Peter Harvey, Susan Bickley, Magdalena Kozena, Stephan Loges,
Deborah York, Mark Padmore, Julia Gooding, James Gilchrist
Paul McCreesh - conductor

Archiv

THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
Thomas Tallis
The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM New Series

MUSIC FOR HOLY WEEK
Anonymous
In Proportional Rhythm
Schola Antiqua
Barbara Katherine Jones, John Blackley - directors

L'Oiseau Lyre Florilegium

LAMENTA
The Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah
Ferrabosco the Elder - Thomas Tallis - Antoine Brumel - Robert White - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Philips - director

Gimell

PASSIO
Saint John Passion
Arvo Pärt
Tonus Peregrinus
Robert Macdonald - bass (Jesus)
Mark Anderson - tenor (Pilate)
Paul Ayres - organ
Anthony Pitts - director

Naxos

MISERERE - FESTINA LENTE - SARAH WAS NINETY YEARS OLD
Arvo Pärt
The Hilliard Ensemble
Paul Hillier - director
Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn
Dennis Russell Davies - conductor

ECM New Series

SCATTERED ASHES
Josquin's Miserere and the Savonarolan Legacy
Josquin Des Prez - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Orlande de Lassus - Claude Le Jeune - Jean Lhéritier - Nicolas Gombert - Jacobus Clemens Non Papa - William Byrd
Magnificat
Philip Cave - director

Linn

PETE TOWNSHEND PLAYS J.S. BACH
...and other Smash Hits of the 18th Century
Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann
Peter Townshend - broke guitar

Smash Records