April 2024

Byrd: Sacred Works

The St. Thomas Choir released a two CD set last year in honor of the Byrd 400th anniversary, including the complete Great Service originally recorded in 1981.

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Three from Aparte Music

World-premiere recording of suites by Pancrace Royer with Les Talens Lyriques, Josquin’s Missa Malheur me bat, and Gottfried van der Goltz with some Bach (and some works no longer attributed to the great man).

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Las Huelgas, Volume II

Brilliant Classics has begun a multi-volume project dedicated to music from the great Pilgrimage Way with the complete Las Huegas Codex. The second volume in this initial 2 CD set features the Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino.

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CD Info: Brilliant Classics CD 96619

Three from MSR

Medieval Song part 2 with Concordia Dawn, the consorts of William White, and a medieval and renaissance reflection with Nina Stern and Glen Velez.

Composer: Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361), Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), Bernart de Ventadorn (troubadour, fl. 1147-1180), Raimon Vidal (troubadour, 1196-1252), Arnaut Daniel (troubadour, fl. 1180-1200), Bertran de Born (troubadour, fl. 1175-1200), Monge de Montaudan (troubadour, 1193-1210), Arakel Siunetsi (ca.1355-1425), Nerses Shnorhali (12th century), Sayat Nova (1712-95), Jacob Van Eyck (c.1590-1657), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), William Whyte (1571-1634).

CD Info: MSR CD MS 1806, MSR CD MS 1577, MSR CD MS 1840

Three Baroque Releases

The early Italian 17th century with Jakob Jozef Orlinski, a Roman Vespers by Pietro Paolo Bencini, and the new release by Andreas Scholl with the Accademia Bizantina.

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi (c.1567–1643), Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580–1651), Giulio Caccini (1551–1618), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643), Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677), Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676), Johann Caspar Von Kerll (1627–1693), Claudio Saracini (1586–1630), Carlo Pallavicino (c.1630–1688), Pietro Paolo Cappellini (Fl. 1641–1660), Giovanni Cesare Netti (1649–1686), Biagio Marini, Antonio Sartorio (1630–1680), Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632–1692), Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (1653–1723), Sebastiano Moratelli (1640–1706) , P. P. Bencini, A. Scarlatti, Nicola Porpora, Leonardo Vinci, Pasquale Anfossi, Angelo Ragazzi, Pergolesi, Vivaldi

CD Info: Erato 5054197726453, Mirare MIR602, Naive V 5474.