July 2018

Instrumental Elizabethans

John Dowland in consort, William Byrd and John Bull, and a look at the “Elizabethan Avant Garde."

Composer: William Mundy, Picforth, John Taverner, Edward Blankes, Philip Van Wilder, Robert Parsons, Christopher Tye, William Byrd (c.1540-1623), Mallorie, Jacquet de Berchem, Brewster, Clément Janequin, Osbert Parsley, John Sheppard, Clement Woodcock, Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Thomas Tallis, Nicholas Strogers, Philip Van Wilder, Giovanni Croce, Dr. John Bull (c.1562-1628), Orlando Gibbons (c.1583-1625), John Dowland ,

CD Info: CD FCR912, Carpe Diem CD 16298, CD ACD2 2761.

A Renaissance Century

New recordings of Ockeghem, music for the Virgin Mary, and the rarely-heard Sebastian de Vivanco.

Composer: Guillaume de MACHAUT (c.1300-1377), Jacobus GALLUS ? (c.1550-1591), Guillaume DUFAY c.1397-1474), Pierre de la RUE (c.1460-1518), Giovanni Pierluigi da PALESTRINA (1525-1594), Juan de IRIBARREN (1699-1767), Adam MICHNA (c.1600-1676), Tomas Luis de VICTORIA (1548-1611), Josquin DESPREZ (c.1445- 1521), Johannes Ockeghem, Sebastián de Vivanco (c.1551-1622)

CD Info: CD KL1412, CD RIC 131, CD CDA68257

Italian Roots of the Baroque, continued

The inspiration from the humanistic circle of Galileo’s father (including his brother’s own lute work), and harpsichord composers inspired by the new humanism.

Composer: Francesco da Milano, Johannes Matelart, Bernardo Monzino, Vincenzo Galilei, Simone Molinaro, Pietro Paolo Melii, Girolamo Kapsberger, Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Tarquinio Merula (c.1594-1665), Giovanni Picchi (fl.1575-1630), Michelangelo Rossi (1601/2-56), Bernardo Storace (1637-1707), Gregorio Strozzi (c.1615-a.1687), Michelagnolo Galilei (1575–1631)

CD Info: CD MVC 011/035, CD SRCD-1020, CD RAM1306.

A Polish Rosary

We know little of the early Baroque Polish master Mikolaj Zielenski, but his ravishing setting of the mysteries of the Rosary is newly-recorded, and we hear it this week.

Composer: Mikolaj Zielenski (1560-1620),

CD Info: CDX 71401-6,

Musica Nova: Harmonie des Nations

This time, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI in a live performance as Volume 11 of their Consort Music series.

Composer: Hieronimus Parabosco, Giovanni Battista, Andrea Gabrieli, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, William Brade , Samuel Scheidt, Biagio Marini, Giovanni Legrenzi, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Pedro de San Lorenzo, Pedro de Araujo, Joan Cabanilles

CD Info: CD AVSA9926