February 2015

Naxos Distribution—Three More Medieval Discs

NOTE: All of the programs once again this month feature recordings that are part of the expanded Naxos Distribution family. Including two from the recently-created Obsculta label from the monks of Stift-Heiligenkreuz in Austria.

Composer: Guillaume Dufay, Hildegard von Bingen.

CD Info: Obsculta Music CD OM 0002, Obsculta Music CD OM 0004, Membran CD 2323861.

Naxos Distribution—Three More Renaissance Discs

NOTE: All of the programs once again this month feature recordings that are part of the expanded Naxos Distribution family. Including two superb new recordings celebrating the Renaissance masters at the Polish court.

Composer: Mikolaj Zielenski (c. 1550-1615), Paul Hofhaimer, Johannes Martini, Guillaume Dufay, Hermann Edlerawer, Monch von Salzburg, Oswald von Wolkenstein, Hugo von Montfort, Heinrich Isaac, Neidhart von Reuenthal, Marcin Mielczewski (t 1651), Mikolaj Zieleñski (16./17. Jahrhundert), Adam Jarzêbski t 1649)

CD Info: CPO CD 777 772-2, Naxos CD 8.573346, K. 617 CD 248.

Naxos Distribution—Three More Early Baroque Discs

NOTE: All of the programs once again this month feature recordings that are part of the expanded Naxos Distribution family. A rarely-heard Swiss composer, the great Englishman Thomas Tomkins, and madrigals of madness at the turn of the 17th century.

Composer: Valentin Molitor Motteten (1683), Thomas Tomkins, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, Clément Janequin, Josquin des Préz, Mateo Flecha, Carlo Gesualdo di Venosa, Claudio Monteverdi.

CD Info: Carus CD 83.387, Pan Classics CD PC 10313, Chandos Chaconne CD CHAN 0804.

Naxos Distribution—Three from Tactus

NOTE: All of the programs once again this month feature recordings that are part of the expanded Naxos Distribution family. The superb Italian label gives us three 16th century Italian composers (and two different world premiers!)

Composer: Andrea Gabrieli, Vincenzo Capirola (1474 - ca. 1550), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

CD Info: Tactus CD TB 521604, Tactus CD TC 470301, Tactus CDTC 530701