Discover Early Music (2005)
performed by
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Bernhard Landauer (counter tenor), Capilla Flamenca, Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense, Dorothy Linell (lute), Ensemble Claude Goudimel, Ensemble Unicorn, Ensemble Villanella, In Dulci Jubilo Children's Choir, Nova Schola Gregoriana
composed by
Alfonso X (el Sabio), Alonso de Mudarra, Ambrosian Chant, Anonymous, 11th century French Polyphony, Anonymous, Carmina Burana, Antoine Busnois, Carlo Gesualdo, Christmas Traditional, Christopher Tye, Claude Goudimel, Clément Janequin, Francesco Landini
Discover Early Music is part of a series covering the history of Western classical music, from medieval times to the present day; each volume contains two CDs and a booklet of about 100 pages, mostly given over to a historical essay keyed to the selections included. One may wonder, when looking at these discs, why no one has done this before, especially in view of book publishers' inability to come up with a good single-volume history with any kind of readability and flair. The reason is that it would be difficult for any ...
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Discover Early Music is part of a series covering the history of Western classical music, from medieval times to the present day; each volume contains two CDs and a booklet of about 100 pages, mostly given over to a historical essay keyed to the selections included. One may wonder, when looking at these discs, why no one has done this before, especially in view of book publishers' inability to come up with a good single-volume history with any kind of readability and flair. The reason is that it would be difficult for any label other than Naxos, the plucky Hong Kong-based outfit that has gleefully proved all the doubters wrong by expanding while everyone else was contracting, to pull it off; only Naxos has the vast and varied catalog to make a full-fledged survey of especially the early periods possible. One effect of this project's origins on Naxos is that the medieval period is somewhat underrepresented; we get only eight pieces on the first CD to cover the entire period from Gregorian chant to the...
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- Antiphonae post Evangelium
- Adorabo, alleluia
- Ordo Virtutum, liturgical drama: Procession
- Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin)
- Gaudete Christus est natus (Piae Cantiones 1582)
- Work(s): Cantiga de Santa Maria
- Exiit dilucolo rustica puella, CB 90
- Humils, forfaitz, repres e penedens
- Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys, rondeau for 3 voices
- Non avrà mai pietà, ballata for 3 voices, S. 144
- Non avrà mai pietà, ballata for 3 voices, S. 144
- Veni Sancte Spiritus, isorhythmic motet for 4 voices, MB 32
- D'un aultre amer, chanson for 3 voices
- Alleluia, Verbum caro factum est, motet for 4 voices
- El grillo, song for 4 parts
- El grillo, song for 4 parts
- Missa "La Sol Fa Re Mi", for 4 parts: Kyrie
- Réveillez vous, cueurs endormis, chanson for 4 voices ("Le chant des oiseaux"), M. 2/67
- Passe & Medio/Den iersten gaillarde
- Work(s): Den III ronde - Den VI ronde - Les quatres branles
- Work(s): Gaillarde I - II - III
- In Nomine, for 4 parts (arrangements exist for consort & for keyboard)
- In Nomine a 5 ("Crye")
- Spem in Alium (also set as "Sing and glorify"), motet for 40 voices, P. 299
- Mass for 4 voices (SATB): Sanctus
- Psalm 130: Du fond de ma pensée
- The King of Denmarks Galliard, for 5 viols/violins & lute (from "Lachrimae")
- Flow, my tears, fall from your springs, for 2 voices & lute (Second Book of Songs)
- Greiner, Zancker, Schnöpffitzer, song for 4 voices
- Stat ein meskin, chanson for 4 voices (also attrib. Isaac)
- Work(s): Tiento for vihuela
- Tribulationem et dolorem inveni, motet for 5 voices, W. 8/57
- Lagrime di S Pietro (Tansillo), madrigal for 7 voices, H. xx: Il Magnanimo Pietro
- Missa Susanne un jour, for 5 voices, H. iv/121: Kyrie
- Beau le crystal, chanson for 4 voices, B. xi/57 (S. xii/94)
- O magnum mysterium, motet for 4 voices
- Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Kyrie
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