Gateway to Early Music

Gateway to Classical Music
Early Music
Various Artists
EMI Classics 65924

Contents:

    Tassin (attr. ?), Montpellier MS:
  1. Chose Tassin I
    Richard Coeur de Lion, Chansonnier Cangé:
    Ballade
    Perrin d'Agincourt, Paris Bibl. Nat.:
    Ballade
    Tassin (attr. ?), Montpellier MS:
    Chose Tassin II
    Anon., 13th c., Paris Bibl. Nat.:
    Chanson
    Alfonso el Sabio (attr.), Escurial MS:
    Cantiga 10: Rosa das rosas

  2. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.), Escurial MS: Cantigas de Santa Maria
  3. Cantiga 10: Rosa das rosas
  4. Cantiga 139: Maravillosos et piadosos

  5. Anon., 14th c., Codex Faenza:
  6. Kyrie

  7. Lorenzo da Firenze, Bibl. Nat. It. 568:
  8. Sanctus

  9. Guillaume Dufay, Oxford Canon 213:
  10. Flos florum

  11. Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
  12. Gloria

  13. John Dunstable:
  14. Quam pulcra es

  15. Johannes Ockeghem: Requiem (Missa pro defunctis) (2-4v.)
  16. Kyrie

  17. Josquin Desprez:
  18. Motet (4v.): Absalon, fili mi

  19. Guillaume Legrant:
  20. (untitled) (instr.)

  21. Heinrich Isaac:
  22. Innsbruck, ich much dich lassen

  23. Tomas de Victoria:
  24. O magnum mysterium

  25. Giovanni da Palestrina:
  26. Hodie Christus natus est

  27. A. Gabrieli:
  28. Ricercar

  29. G. Gabrieli:
  30. Buccinate in neomenia

  31. Girolalmo Frescobaldi:
  32. Toccata V in G major

  33. Claudio Monteverdi: Scherzi musicali
  34. Zefiro torna

  35. Dowland: The First Booke of Songes
  36. Now o Now

  37. Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpischore
  38. Passameze

Playing time: 72' 01"

Performers:
[1], [4]-[6], [11] Syntagma Musica of Amsterdam [Will Kippersluys (contralto), Marius van Altena (tenor, crumhorn), Barbara Miedema (recorder, crumhorn, portative organ, spinet, clavichord), Anneke Pols (fiddle, viol), Leo Meilink (recorder, shawm, crumhorn), Kees Otten (recorder, Gemshorn, shawm, racket, crumhorn, cornett)] & Sven Berger (one handled flute, fife, kortholt, cow's horn, cornett), Joannes Collette (fiddle), Gusta Goldschmidt (lute), Ben de Ligt (viol), Mary Macrow (fiddle) - Kees Otten, dir.
[2]-[3] Barcelona Ars Musicae - Enrique Gispert, dir. & Victoria de Los Angeles
[7] Taverner Consort & Taverner Choir [Andrew Parrott (celebrant), David Thomas (deacon), John Milne (subdeacon); Taverner Consort (polyphony): Rogers Covey-Crump, Andrew Parrott, Paul Hillier, Simon Grant; Taverner Choir (plainchant): Jeremy Birchall, Kevin Breen, Harvey Brough, Stephen Charlesworth, John Dudley, John Milne, Howard Milner, Nicolas Robertson, Bruce Russell, Richard Wistreich; bells: Robert Howes, Hugh Keyte, John Holderness] - Andrew Parrott, dir.
[8] The Hilliard Ensemble [David James (countertenor), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Leigh Nixon (tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Paul Hillier (baritone), Michael George (bass)] - Paul Hillier, dir.
[9] Hilliard Ensemble [David James, Michael Chance, Rogers Covey-Crump, Leigh Nixon, John Potter, Paul Hillier, Michael George, David Beavan] - Paul Hillier, dir.
[10] Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier, dir.
[12] RIAS Chamber Choir - Gunther Arndt
[13]-[14] King's College Choirs - David Willcocks
[15] Brass Ensemble - Denis Stevens, dir. & Barry Rose (organ)
[16] String and Brass Ensemble, Ambrosian Singers - Denis Stevens, dir. & Barry Rose (organ)
[17] Fernando Germani (organ)
[18] Gerald English (tenor), Hugues Cuénod (tenor), Bath Festival Ensemble - Raymond Leppard (harpsichord), cond.
[19] Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier, dir.
[20] Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow, dir.

Recording site and date:
[1], [4]-[6], [11] Heemsteede, Holland [1968 or prior]
[2]-[3] [1967 or prior]
[7] Temple Church, London [1983]
[8] The Priory Church of St. Mary & St. Blaise, Boxgrove, Chichester, Sussex [1982]
[9] Temple Church, London, U.K. [01/1984]
[10] Temple Church, London, U.K. [02/1983]
[12] [1963 or prior]
[13]-[14] [1965 or prior]
[15] [1967 or prior]
[16] [1967 or prior]
[17] [1965 or prior]
[18] [1966 or prior]
[19] [1989 or prior]
[20] [1974 or prior]

Compilation:
EMI Classics 68202 [CDx8] Gateway to Classical Music

Excerpts (from original releases):
33 r.p.m.:
[1], [4]-[6] His Master's Voice (HMV) HQS 1195 Music of Middle Age
[2]-[3] His Master's Voice "Angel" (HMV) SAN 194 Andalusian Songs
[7] EMI 567-747949 also EMI 067-143576; EMI ASD-143576; VSM 143576; VSM 747949 - Guillaume de Machaut Messe Notre Dame
[8] Angel CDC 49002 also EMI 567-749002; EMI 067-146703; EMI ASD-146703 - Dunstable Motets Motetten
[9] EMI 567-49213; EMI CDC 7-49213;EMI EL-2 70 098; EMI 067-2 70 098; Virgin Classic Ver 5-2 61219 - Ockeghem Requiem Missa-Mimi
[10] Angel S-38040; CDC 49209; EMI 067-143573;EMI ASD-143573; EMI 567-49209; CDC 7-49209 - Virgin Classic Ver 5-2 61302 Josquin Despres Motets & Chansons
[11] Columbia SAXH 9 Anthology of Early Music (1350-1475)
[12] Angel 36379, (also Electrola 91107; Odeon C/STC 91107; EMI 037-46 523; His Master's Voice (HMV) HQM/HQS; 1045) - Music for Maximilian; Music in old cities and Residence; Musik in alten Stadten und Residenzen
[13]-[14] Angel S 36 275; His Master's Voice His Master's Voice (HMV) ALP 2111; His Master's Voice (HMV) ASD 653; Voix de son maitre ASOF 882/FALP 882 - Nativity to candlemas
[15]-[16] Angel S-36443; His Master's Voice (HMV) HQS 1093 - A. & G. Gabrieli
[17] Angel S-36323 - Frescobaldi and Bach
[18] Angel S-36431 [LP] The Origins of 17th century Venetian opera: Monteverdi - Cavalli
[19] EMI CDC 7 49805-2 - Dowland Ayres
[20] His Master's Voice (HMV) CSD 3761 Praetorius Dances from Trepsichore and Motets
CD:
[7] Angel CDC 47949 - Guillaume de Machaut Messe Notre Dame
[8] Angel CDC 49002 - Dunstable Motets Motetten
[9] Virgin Classic Ver 5-2 61219 - Ockeghem Requiem Missa-Mimi
[10] Virgin Classics 61 302 - Josquin Despres Motets & Chansons
[19] EMI CDC 7 49805-2 - Dowland Ayres
[20] Virgin Veritas 7243 5 61 289 2 7 Praetorius Dances from Trepsichore and Motets

Other, mostly older compilations of early music:

Reflexe Vol. 1 - Stationen Europäischer Musik
Studio der Frühen Musik - Thomas Binkley
Ricercare-Ensemble für Alte Musik, Zürich - Michel Piguet
Linde Consort
EMI Classics 65625
Adventures in Early Music
Sequentia / The Harp Consort / La Petite Bande / Thomas Hengelbrock / Andreas Staier / Al Ayre Espanol
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 68859
Music from the Renaissance - Early Music No. 2
Collegium Aureum; Pro Cantione Antiqua London - Mark Brown, dir.; Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow, dir.
BMG Classical Navigator BM810 74321 21274 2
2,000 years of music
A concise history of the developmemt of music from the earliest times through the 18th century
Compiled and arranged by Dr. Curt Sachs with various performers
Decca "Gold Label Series" DX-106 [LPx2, mono]
National Public Radio - Milestones of the Millenium
The Renaissance in Music
Various artists
Sony SMK 60 992
Gaudeamus
Codex Gaudeamus
Various artists
AS&V Gaudeamus CD GAU 1004
The Seraphim Guide to Renaissance Music
72 vocal and instrumental works from the 13th to 17th centuries
Syntagma Musicum of Amsterdam - Kees Otten, dir.
Seraphim SIC-6052 [LP-3, stereo]
His Master's Voice (HMV) Recordings, 1949-1954
Alfred Deller
EMI Références 65501

Reviewed in:
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Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
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Pierre-F. Roberge