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Discover Early Music is part of a series covering the history of Western classical music, from medieval times to the present day; each volume contains two CDs and a booklet of about 100 pages, mostly given over to a historical essay keyed to the selections included. One may wonder, when looking at these discs, why no one has done this before, especially in view of book publishers' inability to come up with a good single-volume history with any kind of readability and flair. The reason is that it would be difficult for any label other than Naxos, the plucky Hong Kong-based outfit that has gleefully proved all the doubters wrong by expanding while everyone else was contracting, to pull it off; only Naxos has the vast and varied catalog to make a full-fledged survey of especially the early periods possible. One effect of this project's origins on Naxos is that the medieval period is somewhat underrepresented; we get only eight pieces on the first CD to cover the entire period from Gregorian chant to the era of Dufay and Dunstable in the middle of the fifteenth century. In the early sections of the booklet essay by British editor and writer Lucien Jenkins, one can get through quite a few paragraphs without coming to any music. If there's a hole in the Naxos catalog, it's in the early medieval era, which is usually taken on by specialist ensembles that don't line up with Naxos' cost-cutting aesthetic. But that disadvantage is far outweighed by the generally solid execution of the whole project. One can quibble with Jenkins' text at isolated moments, but overall it is a clear, well-informed introduction. If there's one reason for the public's comparative lack of interest in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance as compared with the art of the era, it is that appreciating the technique of a Josquin or a Machaut, as opposed to a Michelangelo or Giotto, depends on an awareness of technical processes that are not directly visible. In dealing with more complex forms, Jenkins excels. He lays out just enough information to make the general listener aware of the kinds of things that are happening without going into intimidating detail. The performances vary, but the Naxos predilection for recording regional ensembles actually works to the project's advantage; nothing sounds strange when juxtaposed with its neighbor on the disc. This album should be ideally suited to the needs of adult-enrichment classes, tourists, and anyone else interested in an introduction to the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that can be covered in a few evenings. One caveat: the term early music is sometimes understood to include part of the Baroque era, but this album cuts off with Palestrina, at the end of the sixteenth century.
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Antiphonae post Evangelium
In dulci jubilo, Choir, MainArtist - Alberto Turco , Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Versus Alleluiatici (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Alberto Turco , Conductor - Nova Schola Gregoriana, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Ordo virtutum (Hildegard von Bingen)
Hildegard Von Bingen, Composer - Jeremy Summerly, Conductor - Oxford Camerata, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Viderunt omnes No. 1 (Léonin)
Leonin, Composer - Tonus Peregrinus, Choir, MainArtist - Antony Pitts, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Leonin, Composer - Tonus Peregrinus, Choir, MainArtist - Antony Pitts, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Leonin, Composer - Tonus Peregrinus, Choir, MainArtist - Antony Pitts, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Leonin, Composer - Tonus Peregrinus, Choir, MainArtist - Antony Pitts, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Leonin, Composer - Tonus Peregrinus, Choir, MainArtist - Antony Pitts, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Leonin, Composer - Tonus Peregrinus, Choir, MainArtist - Antony Pitts, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Gaudete Christus est natus
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor - Oxford Camerata, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Cantiga de Santa Maria (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Michael Posch, Conductor - Ensemble Unicorn, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Exiit diluculo (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Ensemble Unicorn, Ensemble - Ensemble Oni Wytars, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Humils, forfaitz, repres e penedens (Guiraut Riquier)
Michael Posch, Conductor - Guiraut Riquier, Composer - Ensemble Unicorn, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys (Guillaume Dufay)
Guillaume DuFay, Composer - Bernhard Landauer, Artist, MainArtist - Michael Posch, Conductor - Ensemble Unicorn, Ensemble
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Non avra ma'pieta questa mia donna (Francesco Landini)
Francesco Landini, Composer - Michael Posch, Conductor - Ensemble Unicorn, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Non ara may pieta questa mia dona (Francesco Landini)
Francesco Landini, Composer - Michael Posch, Conductor - Ensemble Unicorn, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Veni Sancte Spiritus - Veni Creator, JD 32 (John Dunstable)
John Dunstable, Composer - Tonus Peregrinus, Choir, MainArtist - Antony Pitts, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
D'un autre amer (Johannes Ockeghem)
Johannes Ockeghem, Composer - Capilla Flamenca, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Alleluya
Antoine Busnois, Composer - Capilla Flamenca, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
El grillo
Josquin des Prez, Composer - Shirley Rumsey, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Josquin des Prez, Composer - Capilla Flamenca, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Missa La sol fa re mi
Josquin des Prez, Composer - Capilla Flamenca, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Reveillez vous, cueurs endormis, "Le chant des oiseaux" (Clement Janequin)
Clément Janequin, Composer - Scholars of London, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Passe and Medio, Den iersten gaillard
Tylman Susato, Composer - Capilla Flamenca, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Den III Ronde - Den VI Ronde - Les quatre Branles (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Gaillarde I - II - III (Anonyme)
Anonymous, Composer - Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
DISC 2
In nomine (John Taverner)
John TAVERNER, Composer - Rose Consort of Viols, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
In Nomine, "Crye" (Christopher Tye)
Christopher Tye, Composer - Rose Consort of Viols, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Spem in alium (Thomas Tallis)
Thomas Tallis, Composer - Jeremy Summerly, Conductor - Oxford Camerata, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Mass for 4 voices (William Byrd)
William BYRD, Composer - Jeremy Summerly, Conductor - Oxford Camerata, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Psaume 130 (Claude Goudimel)
Claude Goudimel, Composer - Claude Goudimel Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist - Christine Morel, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
The King of Denmark's Galiard (John Dowland)
John Dowland, Composer - Rose Consort of Viols, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Book of Songs, Book 2: Flow, my tears, fall from your springs (John Dowland)
John Dowland, Composer - Steven Rickards, Artist, MainArtist - Dorothy Linell, Artist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Greiner zancker (Heinrich Isaac)
Heinrich Isaac, Composer - Ensemble Villanella, Ensemble, MainArtist - Sven Berger, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Tsat een meskin (Jacob Obrecht)
Ensemble Villanella, Ensemble, MainArtist - Jacob Obrecht, Composer - Sven Berger, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Tiento (Alonso de Mudarra)
Alonso Mudarra, Composer - Shirley Rumsey, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Tribulationem et dolorem (Carlo Gesualdo)
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Jeremy Summerly, Conductor - Oxford Camerata, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Lagrime di San Pietro (Tears of San Pietro) (Orlande de Lassus)
Orlande De Lassus, Composer - Ars Nova, Choir, MainArtist - Bo Holten, Conductor
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Missa Susanne un jour (Orlande de Lassus)
Orlande De Lassus, Composer - Jeremy Summerly, Conductor - Oxford Camerata, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Beau le cristal (Orlande de Lassus)
Orlande De Lassus, Composer - Scholars of London, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer - Jeremy Summerly, Conductor - Oxford Camerata, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Masses, Book 2, Missa Papae Marcelli (Palestrina)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Composer - Jeremy Summerly, Conductor - Oxford Camerata, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
Album review
Discover Early Music is part of a series covering the history of Western classical music, from medieval times to the present day; each volume contains two CDs and a booklet of about 100 pages, mostly given over to a historical essay keyed to the selections included. One may wonder, when looking at these discs, why no one has done this before, especially in view of book publishers' inability to come up with a good single-volume history with any kind of readability and flair. The reason is that it would be difficult for any label other than Naxos, the plucky Hong Kong-based outfit that has gleefully proved all the doubters wrong by expanding while everyone else was contracting, to pull it off; only Naxos has the vast and varied catalog to make a full-fledged survey of especially the early periods possible. One effect of this project's origins on Naxos is that the medieval period is somewhat underrepresented; we get only eight pieces on the first CD to cover the entire period from Gregorian chant to the era of Dufay and Dunstable in the middle of the fifteenth century. In the early sections of the booklet essay by British editor and writer Lucien Jenkins, one can get through quite a few paragraphs without coming to any music. If there's a hole in the Naxos catalog, it's in the early medieval era, which is usually taken on by specialist ensembles that don't line up with Naxos' cost-cutting aesthetic. But that disadvantage is far outweighed by the generally solid execution of the whole project. One can quibble with Jenkins' text at isolated moments, but overall it is a clear, well-informed introduction. If there's one reason for the public's comparative lack of interest in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance as compared with the art of the era, it is that appreciating the technique of a Josquin or a Machaut, as opposed to a Michelangelo or Giotto, depends on an awareness of technical processes that are not directly visible. In dealing with more complex forms, Jenkins excels. He lays out just enough information to make the general listener aware of the kinds of things that are happening without going into intimidating detail. The performances vary, but the Naxos predilection for recording regional ensembles actually works to the project's advantage; nothing sounds strange when juxtaposed with its neighbor on the disc. This album should be ideally suited to the needs of adult-enrichment classes, tourists, and anyone else interested in an introduction to the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that can be covered in a few evenings. One caveat: the term early music is sometimes understood to include part of the Baroque era, but this album cuts off with Palestrina, at the end of the sixteenth century.
© TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 42 track(s)
- Total length: 02:18:28
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artist: In Dulci Jubilo
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2005 Naxos (P) 2005 Naxos
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