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"The Elfin Knight" Ballads & Dances from Renaissan | Joel Frederiksen, Ensemble Phoenix Munich | Stock Code: cd0601
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| "The Elfin Knight"
Ballads & Dances from Renaissance England Artists: Joel Frederiksen, b. Ensemble Phoenix Munich Telling stories in song – this is the vocation of Joel Frederiksen, a deep bass with an exceptional timbre. Accompanying himself on the lute or surrounded by his own ensemble based in Munich, this extraordinary musician invites us to discover popular ballads belonging to both English and American traditions. He transcends his scrupulous musical and historical research to bring back to vivid life a whole forgotten world, sometimes redolent of the age of chivalry, sometimes firmly rooted in everyday reality. A spellbinding experience! |
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"Les Plaisirs du palais" | Ensemble Clément Janequin , Dominique Visse | Stock Code: cd0248a
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| "Les Plaisirs du palais"
Drinking (and eating) songs of the Franco-Flemish Renaissance Artists: Ensemble Clément Janequin Dominique Visse As its title suggests, this CD-book has something to delight every palate. It brings together some of the most truculent drinking songs ever to grace a Renaissance monarch's table. A sumptuous buffet of Rabelaisian verse, seasoned with a wide variety of sauces prepared by the finest chefs of French polyphony – Claudin de Sermisy, Fréneau (a Fricassée!), Compère, Certon, Clemens non Papa and many others – and garnished with a delicious side-order of paintings and recipes by the great masters! Including 15 Renaissance recipes in English translation, fully illustrated. |
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"Birds on fire" Jewish Music for Viols | Fretwork | Stock Code: cd0007a
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The programme presented by Fretwork illustrates the genuinely cosmopolitan atmosphere that sustained musical creation at the Tudor and Stuart courts, which did not hesitate to draw on the sources of Franco-Flemish or Italian music. Although the Jews had been banished from the kingdom of England since 1290, the Italian-Jewish Bassano and Lupo families became veritable compositional dynasties, dominating music at court for the best part of a century between 1550 and 1650. Birds on Fire, by the British composer Orlando Gough, adds a contemporary echo inspired by klezmer music. |
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City Musicke | York Waits | Stock Code: cd0101
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| The (Wind Bands Of Renaissance Europe 1550-1600) - The people of the middle ages and the renaissance liked gorgeous colours in their cloths, sharp contrasts in their paintings, highly-flavoured dishes at their tables. In their music they liked sounds which were bright and uncompromising. All the families of instruments possessed the remarkable |
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Elizabeth I | The Elizabethan Consort | Stock Code: cd 0305
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| Elizabeth I's court was a great place to be a musician, and opportunities to make music were all around, whether for use in religious services, or for pleasurable moments during entertainment and relaxation. William Byrd was the queen's particular musical favourite, but this did not exclude others such as Morley or Allison from getting a hearing. This album concentrates on the secular rather than the sacred, and, from music in praise of the Queen, and of England, to dance tunes and songs, it presents a selection of many of the types of music which a courtier in late sixteenth century London would have heard and known.
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The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book - 2CD set | Martin Souter | Stock Code: cd 0304
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| The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge houses one of the world's most important manuscripts of keyboard music. It consists of a small folio volume of 220 leaves of paper, 209 of which are filled with music, which is written on six line staves ruled by hand. Our more familiar modern notation uses five line staves. The beautiful binding is of crimson morocco, with gold tooling. The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book was compiled between 1612 and 1619 by Francis Tregian during the time in which he was a prisoner in the Fleet prison in London. This wealthy, artistic and cultured man had been imprisoned, along with many others, by King James I of England, who had resumed a campaign of persecution of Catholics which the English royal family had been waging intermittently since the days of Henry VIII almost a century earlier. The Tregian family remained true to their faith, even in the face of great adversity.
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Madrigals for a Tudor King | Phiippe Verdelot: | Stock Code: cd 0300
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| Philippe Verdelot was the most important composer of Italian madrigals in the early 16th century and recognized as the greatest innovator of the genre. A Frenchman, he occupied several important musical posts in Italy, including the Florentine posts of maestro di cappella at the Baptistry of S. Maria del Fiore and the great Duomo itself. In the mid 1520s, during his time in Florence, a set of part-books were assembled, probably under Verdelot's supervision, for the court of Henry VIII. Most, if not all, of the works were composed by Verdelot. This is the first recording of the complete madrigals in the collection, which stands not only as the most exceptional of diplomatic musical gifts but is also an important source for the history of the early madrigals. |
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A Golden Treasury of Renaissan | various | Stock Code: cd0100
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| A grand tour of the finest Renaissance music of England, Italy, Germany, France, the Low Countries and Spain performed by leading early music groups and musicians. The album is a compilation drawn from the Saydosc catalogue and serves as an excellent introduction to the fine music of this period |
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Songs at Christmas | Quodlibet | Stock Code: cd0091
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| Quodlibet explores the many meanings and stories of Christmas. In the words of the carol, the theme is ‘rejoice and be merry'. The music ranges from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and comes not only from Britain but also from Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy. |
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All in a Garden Green | Quodlibet | Stock Code: cd0090
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| Quodlibet deserve much wider exposure. Quodlibet performs Renaissance music for four unaccompanied voices, from both England and abroad. There are also solo songs by the soprano Anna Keightley, who is accompanied by Peter Bull on lute and cittern; he also performs solo instrumental dances on dulcimer and hurdy gurdy.
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