Tags
Language
Tags
March 2024
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
25 26 27 28 29 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)

Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 71:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | 88883754552 | Recorded: 1999

The music of Shakespeare's England - ballad tunes, country dances and elegant consorts - seems at first to be quintessentially English. Yet many of these tunes, as popular dances or in the high-art variations of division music, were inspired by Celtic and Spanish styles. In variations, from 17th-century manuscripts and in improvised divisions, 'gypsy' ballads are metamorphosed into exquisite consort music.

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Music from the Chirk Castle Part-Books (2009)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Music from the Chirk Castle Part-Books (2009)

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Music from the Chirk Castle Part-Books (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 71'04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA67695 | Recorded: 2008

This disc presents a selection of works from the Chirk Castle part-books, a fascinating collection of devotional music from the Tudor period that remained hidden in the castle library for three hundred years.
The Chirk manuscripts contain works for unaccompanied voices as well as verse anthems and services, scored for solo voices, chorus and organ. This recording focuses on the unaccompanied items, presenting for the first time a selection of the ‘full’ services and anthems found in the manuscripts, including seven unique to the Chirk collection.

Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - William Byrd: Infelix ego (2014)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - William Byrd: Infelix ego (2014)

Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - William Byrd: Infelix ego (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 207 Mb | Total time: 49:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: PHI | # LPH014 | Recorded: 2013

Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent present their third project for Phi focussing on vocal music of the Renaissance. This time, it is the English composer William Byrd (c.1540-1623) who is being honoured. The title of the programme is that of Byrd’s motet Infelix ego, one of the greatest artistic statements of the 16th century. Its text is a meditation on Psalm 50, written by the Dominica Girolamo Savonarola, a remarkable man who waged a campaign against the corrupt Medici family in Florence.

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)

Posted By: Designol
The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 322 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 169 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Choral, Renaissance | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68256 | 01:13:06

The Gesualdo Six literally made its name with performances of Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories, but that's not the British vocal consort's only specialty. Each of the singers was trained in the English choral tradition, and sacred works of the 16th and 17th century are close to their hearts. This 2018 Hyperion release is a brief survey of motets by Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins, John Sheppard, Robert White, John Dunstaple, Thomas Morley, John Taverner, William Cornysh, Orlando Gibbons, and Robert Parsons, which represent the changing theological and liturgical aspects of English religion in the Renaissance. The ensemble, conducted by Owain Park, sings with evenly blended tones and an extraordinary harmonic richness, notwithstanding the assignment of one voice to a part and the exposed polyphony that sometimes creates an austere effect. Also quite noticeable are the cross-relations that add poignant dissonances to the counterpoint, as in Tallis' Loquebantur variis linguis, Taverner's Quemadmodum, Gibbons' O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not, and Parsons' Deliver me from mine enemies. This album was recorded in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, where The Gesualdo Six gave its first performances, and the sound is enhanced by vibrant acoustics that give the group a radiant aural halo.

Ursula Duetschler - William Byrd: Pieces from the 'Fitzwilliam Virginal Book' (1990)

Posted By: Designol
Ursula Duetschler - William Byrd: Pieces from the 'Fitzwilliam Virginal Book' (1990)

Ursula Dütschler - William Byrd: Pieces from the 'Fitzwilliam Virginal Book' (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 438 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 179 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Claves | # CD 50-9001 | Time: 01:09:30

The Swiss harpsichordist, Ursula Dütschler, studied with Jörg Ewald Dähler at the Konservatorium Bern with a soloist diploma. She continued her musical training with Kenneth Gilbert at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and with Malcolm Bilson (Hammerflügel) at the Cornell University in the USA. She won several prizes, including the 1989 International Cembalo Competition in Paris and the 1991 International Erwin Bodky Competition for Hammerflügel in Boston/USA. Today Ursula Dütschler lives in Holland and appears as a soloist, chamber musician and Lieder accompanist. She has performed with various important orchestras. Together with Malcolm Bilson and some musician colleagues she participated in 1997 in perforamance of the 32 piano sonatas of L.v. Beethoven on historical instruments. Ursula Dütschler has recorded several CD's, among which four CDs with works for solo harpsichord by Scarlatti, Byrd, Balbastre and Bach.

John Kitchen - Instruments from the Russell Collection Vol. 1 (2001)

Posted By: ArlegZ
John Kitchen - Instruments from the Russell Collection Vol. 1 (2001)

John Kitchen - Instruments from the Russell Collection Vol. 1 (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 472 Mb | Total time: 75:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34001 | Recorded: 2000

This disc is intended to introduce a collection of keyboard instruments in Edinburgh, Scotland, but actually it accomplishes much more. The instruments featured here were built all over Europe, with the majority from the British Isles or France. They date from between 1586 and 1810, with the first example being an Italian virginal and the final one a fortepiano. Along the way come harpsichords of various kinds, a clavichord, and a small organ. Brief but relevant and engaging histories are given for each instrument.

Aapo Häkkinen - William Byrd: Music for the Virginals (2002)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Aapo Häkkinen - William Byrd: Music for the Virginals (2002)

Aapo Häkkinen - William Byrd: Music for the Virginals (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 480 Mb | Total time: 70:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 148 | Recorded: 1999

William Byrd’s keyboard music has always stood in the shadow of his vocal compositions. Drawing simultaneously on English and Italian Renaissance traditions, Byrd created a remarkable musical language that was flexible and entirely refined keyboard instruments of his time.

Aapo Häkkinen - William Byrd: Late Music for the Virginals (2017)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Aapo Häkkinen - William Byrd: Late Music for the Virginals (2017)

Aapo Häkkinen - William Byrd: Late Music for the Virginals (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 436 Mb | Total time: 67:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 405 | Recorded: 2016

William Byrd’s keyboard music has always stood in the shadow of his vocal compositions. Drawing simultaneously on English and Italian Renaissance traditions, Byrd created a remarkable musical language that was flexible and entirely refined keyboard instruments of his time. Both keyboard instruments used on this recording are original pieces.

Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner - Byrd 1589 (2023)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner - Byrd 1589 (2023)

Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner - Byrd 1589 (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 538 Mb | Total time: 122:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Inventa Records | # INV1011 | Recorded: 2022

Following the critically acclaimed album of Byrd’s 1589 collection, Alamire returns with the completion of their survey of the early song collections with the 1589 Collection, in this, the composer’s 400th anniversary year. • Alamire is joined by viol consort Fretwork and director David Skinner. • Byrd’s first song collection was published in 1588. In following year he writes that he had ‘bene encouraged thereby, to take further paines therein, and to make the pertaker thereof, because I would shew my selfe gratefull to thee for thy loue, and desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke.’

Eric Ericson, Rundfunkchor Stockholm, Stockholmer Kammerchor - European Choral Music (2014) 6CD Box Set

Posted By: Designol
Eric Ericson, Rundfunkchor Stockholm, Stockholmer Kammerchor - European Choral Music (2014) 6CD Box Set

Europäische Chormusik - European Choral Music (2014) 6CD Box Set
Eric Ericson, Rundfunkchor Stockholm, Stockholmer Kammerchor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.48 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 942 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Choral | Label: Warner Classics | # 825646261505 | Time: 06:49:27

The great recordings of the "Nordic choral marvel": Swedish choral conductor Eric Ericson was one of the true legends in his field. When he died in 2013 at the age of 94, he had spent decades working to place his two Stockholm choirs among the international musical elite. His recordings from the 1970's enjoy real cult status – unique interpretations of a cappella works from the Renaissance to the 20th century, from Gesualdo to Penderecki, released here for the first time in a single box.

Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players: An English Coronation, 1902-1953 (2019)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players: An English Coronation, 1902-1953 (2019)

Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players: An English Coronation, 1902-1953 (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 662 Mb | Total time: 159:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD 569 | Recorded: 2018

The four coronations of the twentieth century were enormous and extravagant. Replete with festive pageantry, these ceremonies were joyful celebrations of British music, employing tremendous forces. Choirs from across London and beyond were marshalled to provide a chorus of over 400 voices; a full-size symphony orchestra was squeezed into Westminster Abbey, whilst bands of fanfare trumpeters led the pomp and celebration.

Sophie Yates - Elizabethan Virginals Music (2003)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Sophie Yates - Elizabethan Virginals Music (2003)

Sophie Yates - Elizabethan Virginals Music (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 335 Mb | Total time: 68:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0699 | Recorded: 2002

Sophie Yates finds the right manner far all these works, the small and unassuming, the intricate and emotionally charged. Her sense of rhythmic flexibility is subtle. Her articulation of simultaneous musical strands - no mean feat even in the simplest of works performed on the virginal - is a delight.

Stile Antico - The Golden Renaissance: William Byrd (2023)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Stile Antico - The Golden Renaissance: William Byrd (2023)

Stile Antico - The Golden Renaissance: William Byrd (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 69:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 3951 | Recorded: 2022

The second release in Stile Antico’s ‘Golden Renaissance’ trilogy on the Decca Classics label commemorates 400 years since the death of the superb English composer William Byrd. Our programme focuses on the music of his final years, written for the clandestine Catholic services of his Essex patron, including his timeless Mass for Four Voices and his exuberant Propers for the Feast of the Assumption. We also perform several of his “sacred songs” in both English and Latin, and his mighty Tribue Domine, a homage to the music of an older generation of composers.

Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Melancholia: Madrigals and motets around 1600 (2018)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Melancholia: Madrigals and motets around 1600 (2018)

Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Melancholia: Madrigals and motets around 1600 (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 67:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM902298 | Recorded: 2017

Melancholic poetry provided endless nourishment for musical creativity in the late Renaissance. In his first recording for harmonia mundi, Geoffroy Jourdain leads Les Cris de Paris in music from the cusp of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From Bryd to Gesualdo, Italian and English madrigals rub shoulders with motets and Tenebrae responsories, finding pleasure even in meditating on what causes one's pain.

Owen Rees, Contrapunctus - Libera nos: The Cry of the Oppressed (2013)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Owen Rees, Contrapunctus - Libera nos: The Cry of the Oppressed (2013)

Owen Rees, Contrapunctus - Libera nos: The Cry of the Oppressed (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 69:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD338 | Recorded: 2011

Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, the choir Contrapunctus presents music by the best-known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces. Directed by Owen Rees, a specialist in music of the 16th and 17 centuries, the group presents imaginative programmes revealing previously undiscovered musical treasures and throwing new light on familiar works.