February 2016

New from ECM

Recent releases from this often experimental label give us some contemporary takes on music from the past, including Gesualdo, Machaut, and music from the Armenian tradition.

Composer: Brett Dean, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935)

CD Info: ECM 2447, ECM 2452, ECM 24551

Francis I–Music of a Reign

The new boxed set and book dedicated to the French monarch with the Ensemble Doulce Mémoire.

Composer:

CD Info: CD ZZT 357,

Three from England

Consort music of Christopher Tye, Dowland’s Book 2, and a lovely program from Nigel North .

Composer: Christopher Tye (ca. 1505-ca. 1572), John Taverner (ca. 1490-1545), John Dowland, Francis Cutting, Anthony Holborne, William Byrd, John Johnson, John Danyel, Daniel Batchelar, Thomas Robinson, Edward Collins

CD Info: CPO CD 777 897-2, DUX CD 1192, Linn CD BK 176.

Three Eras of Love Songs

For the time of Valentine’s, love songs from the middle ages, Renaissance, and the early French Baroque.

Composer: Martin Codax, VivaBiancaLuna Biffi, Ken Zukerman, Juan del Enzina (1468-1529), Girard de Beaulieu, Pierre-Francisque Carroubel, Jean Boyer, Pierre Guédron, Didier Le Blanc, Fabrice-Marin Caiétain, Lorenzini, Guillaume Costeley, Adrian Le Roy.

CD Info: CD A 390, CD CHR 77397, Alpha CD 213.

Two from the Rose Ensemble

The viol gives us music from the Lowlands around 1500, and, in a collaboration with the Marian Consort, music from the Baldwin Partbooks.

Composer: Hugh Aston, John Baldwin, Bevin, Byrd, Ferrabosco, A.I., Derrick Gerarde, Hollander, C., Lasso, William Mundy, Parsons, R., John Sheppard., Tallis , Tavener.

CD Info: CD DCD34169, Delphian CD34160.