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This is not the first program of polyphony that Schola Hungarica has made in its long history. One of their first issues after six numbered “Magyar...

All of these works except the Stabat mater first appeared on Collins 13602 (17:2). Two brief Frescobaldi toccatas on that disc have been omitted, replaced by...


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The longest work (even though less than 13 minutes) provides a title for the disc. All the composers except the emperor himself held the position of...

I have not seen a more lavishly packaged set of CDs than this. The hardcover book of 276 pages is almost eight inches tall, with the...

I owned this album on the original Decca LP and, in 40 years of collecting, I’ve only known of two other copies in the U.S. (though...

This instrumental ensemble has no conductor, although some reviews of early music in the past have characterized the director of a few musicians as a “conductor.”...


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Composers who worked in Venice in Monteverdi’s time make up this program of solo madrigals, arias, and guitar pieces. The unfamiliar names need some introduction. Domenico...

Alvise Cornaro (1484–1566) was a patron of the arts in the Veneto region, where he lived in Padua with his uncle, the real source of the...

In his reissues, Peter Phillips has been very open about the early days of the Tallis Scholars. The reissue of their first recording, originally on Classics...

This is really the broadest possible survey of the madrigal literature. It includes some of the most familiar Renaissance secular pieces in English, French, German, Italian,...