March 2022

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Part 7: Night: Stories of Lovers and Warriors

We journey with the director of the Concerto Italiano to his 2017 Monteverdi 450th anniversary project Night: Stories of Lovers and Warriors.

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

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Gallicantus Part 3

Gabriel Crouch, the director of the early music ensemble Gallicantus, continues to guide us through some of their releases. This week, Lassus with the Prophecies of the Sibyls, and "Queen Mary’s Big Belly."

Composer: Philip van Wilder, William Mundy, Christopher Tye, Orlande de Lassus, Thomas Tallis, Anthony Newman, John Sheppard, Hildegard von Bingen, Dmitri Tymoczko, Elliot Cole,

CD Info: Signum CD SIGCD464, Signum CD SIGCD 520,

The Cusp of the 16th Century

Music inspired by the circle of Raphael, love songs from Venice, and the imagination of Marco dall’Aquila.

Composer: Franciscus Nigrus, Jacob Arcadelt, Petrus Tritonius, Antonius Capreolus Brixien, Franchino Gaffurio, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Cipriano de Rore, Claude Le Jeune, Bartolomeo Tromboncino (c.1470-1535), Joan Ambrosio Dalza, Marco Cara (c.1470 - ?1525), Vicenzo Capirola (1477 - After 1548), Pierre Attaingnant (c.1494-1551/2), Ioannes Lulinus Venetus (fl. Early 16th c.) , Marco dall'Aquila (c.1480 - after 1538),Josquin Desprez, Pierre Passereau , Clément Janequin, Lukas Henning

CD Info: Alpha CD 144, Signum CD SIGCD 035, Glossa CD GCD 923518

Lesser-Heard Renaissance Sacred Composers

Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Manfred Barbarini Lupus working at St. Gall, and from the Baldwin Partbooks, William and John Mundy.

Composer: Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Manfred Barbarini Lupus, Robert WHITE (c. 1535-1574), William BYRD (1539/40-1623), John MUNDY (c. 1555-1630), Robert PARSONS (c. 1535-1571/2), William MUNDY (c. 1528-c. 1591), John SHEPPARD (c. 1515-1558), William DAMAN (c. 1540-1591)

CD Info: Signum CD SIGCD045, Musiques Suisses CD MGB CD 6286, Signum CD SIGCD633