Music For Renaissance Instruments
Kagel / Collegium Instrumentale 1898 [ CD - released 14/Jun/1999 ] |
Renaissance
Prologue [ One Way / CD ] Direct American import |
TRADITIONAL
Silent Night - Early Christmas Music and Carols Arianna Savall (voice, Baroque triple harp, Renaissance harp) Petter Udland Johansen (voice, hardingfele, mandolin) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] "Silent Night may be a conventional title, but the sounds of this Hirundo Maris disc are anything but…Even that over-roasted old chestnut 'Stille Nacht' sounds fresh in their crystalline arrangement." BBC Music |
Capriccio Stravagante; Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra; Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons; Skip Sempé
Skip Sempé: Memorandum XXI [ Paradizo / 5 CD - released 6/Aug/2021 ] Paradizo features the recordings of Skip Sempé as solo harpsichordist, chamber musician, conductor and director of the ensembles that he founded: Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Les 24... |
Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra; Skip Sempé
Terpsichore: Muse of the Dance [ Paradizo / CD - released 6/Aug/2021 ] Paradizo features the recordings of Skip Sempé as solo harpsichordist, chamber musician, conductor and director of the ensembles that he founded: Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Les 24... |
Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra; Skip Sempé; Collegium Vocale Gent
La Pellegrina: Intermedii 1589 [ Paradizo / CD - released 6/Aug/2021 ] Paradizo features the recordings of Skip Sempé as solo harpsichordist, chamber musician, conductor and director of the ensembles that he founded: Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Les 24... |
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Moeran: Serenade and Rhapsodies Hugh Mackey (baritone) / The Renaissance Singers / Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2004 ] 'The performances under Vernon Handley… are absolutely splendid, and are warmly and spaciously recorded.' The Independent |
JOHN DOWLAND
Semper Dowland Semper Dolens Josa Miguel Moreno ((Renaissance lute) Eligio Quinteiro (theorbo & gittern) [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Musicology apart, this is a breathtaking collection which should become a benchmark in Dowland's already ample discography. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Canticum Canticorum: Spanish polyphonic settings from the Song of Songs Orchestra of the Renaissance / Richard Cheetham (director) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Orchestra of the Renaissance, Richard Cheetham (director) & Michael Noone (guest conductor) |
RENAISSANCE
AWAKENING (MIXED BY DAVE SEAMAN) [ 2 CD ] |
Renaissance
Dreams & Omens [ Repertoire / CD - released 9/May/2011 ] |
Renaissance
Illusion [ Repertoire Records / CD - released 14/Apr/2008 ] |
Renaissance
Illusion [ Esoteric Recordings / CD - released 29/Nov/2010 ] |
Renaissance
In the Land of the Rising Sun [ Repertoire / 2 CD - released 9/May/2011 ] |
Renaissance
Live at Carnegie Hall [ Repertoire Records / 2 CD - released 3/Aug/2009 ] Available for the first time on CD, this is the definitive audiophile version of the legendary Renaissance recording. The two disc set includes amazing renditions of their most famous songs, accented with a stunning symphonic orchestra and an... |
Renaissance
Live In Chicago [ Floating World / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] |
Renaissance
Novella [ Repertoire Records / CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] |
Renaissance
Prologue (Remastered) [ Repertoire / CD - released 26/Oct/2010 ] Digitally re-mastered digi-pak edition of this 1972 album by English folk group, Renaissance. |
Renaissance
Renaissance [ Repertoire Records / CD - released 14/Apr/2008 ] |
Renaissance
Renaissance [ Esoteric Recordings / CD - released 29/Nov/2010 ] |
Renaissance
A Song for All Seasons [ Repertoire Records / CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] |
Renaissance
Tuscany [ Repertoire / CD - released 9/May/2011 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Songs for William Shakespeare Sara Stowe (Soprano) Matthew Spring (Lute, cittern, hurdy-gurdy) Sharon Lindo (Renaissance violin, recorder, pipe and tabor) [ Heritage of Music / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] The finest songs from Shakespeare's plays, from Johnson's arrangement of 'Where the bee sucks' in 'The Tempest' to Morley's famous version of Feste's song 'O mistress mine', from 'Twelfth Night'. Carefully researched and played on instruments of the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music ofthe Spanish Renaissance Shirley Rumsey (voice, vihuelas, lute, renaissance guitar) [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] "A most remarkable voice." Northern Echo |
GUERRERO
Missa Surge propera and motets for voices and winds Sydney Chamber Choir / Orchestra of the Renaissance / Michael Noone [ ABC / CD - released 1/May/2006 ] 'Behold Francisco Guerrero, in whose compositions are found such elegant craftsmanship and such graceful counterpoint; whose pen has given us works of such lasting merit and universal significance, that no future age may ever produce a master who... |
BUXTEHUDE
Das Jungste Gericht Ulrike Hofbauer (sop) Monika Mauch (sop) Harry van der Kamp (bass) Hans-Jorg Mammel (ten) / Weser-Renaissance / Manfred Cordes (dir) [ CPO / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Manfred Cordes |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
In Pastures Green: A meditatrion in Psalms, Poems and Music The Victoria Singers / English Renaissance / The choir of Magdalen College / The choir of Norwich Cathedral [ Songs of Praise / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] A treasury of favourite psalms, poetry and music, from the immortal 23rd psalm to Thomas Hardy's poignant evocations of English country churches, complemented by music such as Vaughan Williams' magnificent 'Tallis' fantasia. |
Weser Renaissance/Cordes
Praetorius: Ostermesse [ Cpo / CD - released 25/Feb/2013 ] |
Weser Renaissance/Cordes
Selle:easter Ctos/Motets [ Cpo / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] |
Weser-Renaissance
Hammerschmidt: Sacred Works [ Cpo / CD - released 29/Sep/2003 ] |
JOSQUIN DESPREZ
Missa Ave maris stella WESER-RENAISSANCE Bremen, Manfred Cordes [ CPO Records / CD - released 20/May/2012 ] |
Weser-Renaissance Bremen/Corde
Di Lasso: Christmas Motets [ Cpo / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] |
Weser-Renaissance Bremen/Corde
Pfleger: Laudate Dominum [ Cpo / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] |
Weser-Renaissance Bremen/Corde
San Marco In Hamburg [ Cpo / CD - released 28/Jul/2008 ] |
JOHANN PHILIPP FORTSCH
Sacred Concertos & Cantatas Weser-Renaissance, Manfred Cordes [ CPO / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] The Weser-Renaissance ensemble under Manfred Cordes turns to cantatas and sacred concertos by Johann Philipp Förtsch. |
ORLANDO di LASSO
Marienvesper Weser-Renaissance of Bremen / Manfred Cordes [ CPO / CD - released 10/Feb/2012 ] "Maestro Cordes leads a vocal ensemble of fine light lyric voices, perfectly balanced and flawlessly in tune." (MusicWeb) |
HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Musikalische Exequien Weser-Renaissance of Bremen / Manfred Cordes [ CPO / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] "Cordes produces a fine alternative to the smoother 'choral' versions by John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir...The shorter motet Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe and the Venetian-influenced Canticum Simeonis (the Nunc Dimittis) are captivatingly sung"... |
HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi Weser-Renaissance with Margit Schultheis (harp) Detlef Bratschke (organ) / Manfred Cordes (dir) [ CPO / CD - released 6/May/2006 ] "These are impressive and idiomatic performances of one of Schütz's masterpieces and some fine sacred concertos for Easter." (MusicWeb April 2006) |
Weser-Renaissance/Cordes
Desprez: De Profundis Motets [ Cpo / CD - released 29/Oct/2012 ] |