Since you are interested in Quintets with two violas, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CHARPENTIER
Salve Regina / Motets Concerto Vocale / RenAC Jacobs-director [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] Beautiful settings for voice |
PURCELL
King Arthur (complete) Deller Consort / The King's Musick, Alfred Deller - director [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 20/May/2011 ] It was with Henry Purcell, the greatest of 17th century English composers that the semi-opera, that specifically English genre, reached its apogee. |
ANONYMOUS / BYRD / CUTTING / JOHNSON / MORLEY / etc
Shakespeare Songs Desmond Dupre-lute, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller-director [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] There can be no doubt that music played a considerable role in Shakespeare's plays, although very little of it has survived. |
BOCCHERINI
Sextets Op.23 Ensemble 415 / Chiara Banchini [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] "full of beautiful, fine-drawn, sensitive playing" (Gramophone) |
ESTOCART
Octonaires de la Vanita du Monde Ensemble Clament Janequin / Dominique Visse [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Jun/2006 ] Founded in Paris in 1978 the Ensemble Clément Janequin devotes itself principally to the secular and religious music of the Renaissance. |
Ensemble Clament Janequin, Visse
Vecchi - L'Amfiparnaso [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 11/May/2003 ] "A recommended experience." (Harmonia) |
PALESTRINA
Palestrina - Missa Viri Galilaei Ensemble Organum, Paras, Ensemble Vocal Europaen, Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] "The performances are simply splendid." (A.R.G.) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Provencal Organs Francis Chapelet / Michel Chapuis / Lucienne Antonini / Rena Saorgin [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] Between the beginning of the 15th century and the death of Henry IV (1610) the polyphonists of the Dukes of Burgundy took the works of the Franco-Flemish School as far afield as Italy and Spain. In the wake of the musicians followed the... |
BRAHMS
Quintets Op.111 & 115 Garard Caussa (viola) Michel Portal (clarinet) / Melos Quartett [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] The supreme masterpiece among his chamber works featuring the clarinet, this sublime opus 115 is undoubtedly one of the composer's most popular works. |