The Glory of Early Music

The Glory of Early Music
Dufay / Obrecht / Isaac / Senfl / Byrd / Gibbons / Tomkins / Jenkins
Various
Naxos 8.554064

Content:

    Anon., Italy
  1. Saltarello No. 3

  2. Anon., trad. Turkey:
  3. Düdül

  4. Anon., trad. Macedonia:
  5. Nevestinko oro

  6. Anon., Italy
  7. Saltarello No. 1
  8. Lamento di Tristano - La Rotta

  9. Guillaume Dufay
  10. Ballade: J'ay mis mon cuer (instrumental)

  11. Heinrich Isaac
  12. Carmen à 5

  13. Jacob Obrecht
  14. Stat ('tsaat) ein meskin

  15. Heinrich Finck
  16. Greiner Zanner

  17. Arnold von Bruck
  18. So trinken wir alle

  19. Heinrich Isaac
  20. Las rauschen

  21. Arnold von Bruck
  22. Es ging ein Landsknecht über Feld

  23. Ludwig Senfl
  24. Ich weiß nicht was er ihr verhieß

  25. Anon., Spain, ca 1500
  26. Guardame las vaca

  27. Robert Morton
  28. Le souvenir

  29. William Byrd
  30. Pavan

  31. Giles Farnaby, Mulliner Book
  32. The Old Spagnoletta

  33. William Byrd
  34. Galliard

  35. Francesco Canova da Milano
  36. Ricercar 13

  37. Orlando Gibbons
  38. Pavan
  39. Lincoln's Inn Mask
  40. Galliard
  41. Fantazia of four parts

  42. Vincenzo Capirola
  43. Balletto

  44. Thomas Tomkins
  45. Almain in F Major

  46. John Jenkins: Newark Seidge
  47. (Pavan)
  48. Galliard

Playing time: 74' 46"

Performers:
[1]-[7] Ensemble Unicorn
[8]-[14] Convivium Musicum / Ensemble Villanella
[15], [25] Shirley Rumsey
[16], [18] Joseph Payne
[17], [19], [21]-[24], [26]-[28] Rose Consort of Viols & Red Byrd
[20] Christopher Wilson

Excerpts (from original release)
[1], [5]-[6] Naxos 8.553131 Chominciamento di gioia - Virtuoso dance music from the time of Boccaccio's Decamerone
[2]-[4] Naxos 8.553132 On the way to Bethlehem - Music of the Medieval Pilgrim
[7] Naxos 8.553458 Dufay: Chansons
[8]-[14] Naxos 8.553352 Tugend und Untugend (Virtue and Vice) - German Secular Songs and Instrumental Music from the Time of Luthe
[15] Naxos 8.50614 Music of the Spanish Renaissance
[16] Naxos 8.553467 Das Buxheimer Orgelbuch, Volume 2
[17], [19] Naxos 8.550604 Byrd: Consort and Keyboard Music / Songs and Anthems
[18] Naxos 8.550718 Early English Organ Music Vol. 1
[20] Naxos 8.550774 Francesco Canova da Milano: Lute Music
[21]-[23] Naxos 8.550603 Gibbons: Consort and Keyboard Music / Songs and Anthems
[24] Naxos 8.553130 Gibbons: Choral and Organ Music
[25] Naxos 8.550615 Music of the Italian Renaissance
[26] Naxos 8.550602 Tomkins: Consort Music for Viols and Voices / Keyboard Music
[27]-[28] Naxos 8.550687 Jenkins: All in a Garden Green

Recording site and date:
Various [1992-1996]

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Pierre-F. Roberge