December 2021

A Year End Look

Some of the late year releases appropriate for the season and a look into 2022.

Composer: William Byrd, Anthony Holborne, Orlando Gibbons, Martin Peerson, Thomas Weelkes, Hans Leo Haßler, Christian Erbach, Tobias Eisenhuet, Johann Erasmus Kindermann, Johann Melchior Gletle, Jakob Gippenbusch, Franz Xaver Anton Murschhauser, Johann Fischer, Jakob Scheiffelhut, Adam Gumpelzhaimer, Carl Van Der Hoeven, Jacob Paix, Matthias Kelz, Johannes Eccard

CD Info: Signum CD SIGCD 680, Perfect Noise CD PN 1802, First Hand Records CD FHR94

Christmas Medley

Some Hieronymus Praetorius, a little Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata, and one more seasonal peek from the great boxed set of Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School.

Composer: Josquin des Prez (1440-1521), Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460), Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474), Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497), Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1571), Pierre de La Rue (1460-1518), Thomas Crecquillon (c.1505-after1557), Philippe de Monte (1521-1603), Adrian Willaert (1490-1562), Roland de la Lassus (1532-1594), Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) , Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629),

CD Info: Warner catalogue number 190296730849, CPO CD 777 245-2, Inventa CD INV001, Erato CD 0190296603617

A German Christmas

Music from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century featuring the Saxony Vocal Ensemble and the Schola Heidelberg..

Composer: Johann Hermann Schein, Enno Rudlph, Orlande de Lassus, Johannes Eccard, Hans Leo Hassler, Andreas Raselius, Heinrich Isaac, Lucas Osiander, Michael Praetorius, Jacobus Handl, Isaac, Eccard, Eccard, Hammerschmidt, Monteverdi, Schütz, Rheinberger, Reger, Gallus, Thiel, Woyrsch, Whitacre, Sandström, Howells, Rutter, Tueapsky, Lauridsen

CD Info: Christophorus CD CHR 77451, CPO CD 555 318-2,

A Gesualdo Six Christmas

Director Owain Park joins us once again to celebrate the season with his superb ensemble.

Composer: Philip Lawson (b.1957), Michael Praetorius (1571 – 1621), Jonathan Harvey (1939 – 2012), Thomas Tallis (c.1505 – 1585), Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b.1980), Brian Kay (b.1944), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958), (b.1993), Gustav Holst (1874 – 1934), John Rutter (b.1945), Jacob Handl (1550 – 1591), Hans Leo Hassler (1564 – 1612), Eleanor Daley (b.1955), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Jonathan Rathbone (b.1957), James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893), Gordon Langford (1930-2017)

CD Info: Hyperion CD CDA68299

Sacred Treasures of Christmas

The latest from the London Oratory School Cantorum is a sequence of Renaissance music for Christmas and Epiphany.

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