Classical Reviews/Early Music

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This four-man vocal ensemble, based in the Big Apple, has given its second disc a title with a double meaning. Tudor City is a familiar residential...

Wim van Gerven (1929–2008) was the co-founder and conductor of the student choir at the University of Amsterdam from 1959 to 1993. The choir’s role began...


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This is another compendium disc, this time showing off the talents of Concertino Amarilli (butterflies, if you are literal about these things in translation). This is...

This fourth recording of the women’s vocal ensemble in Trondheim, Norway, is a serious departure from earlier efforts. All three of their previous discs on the...

Flautando Köln is an ensemble of four German women (Katharina Hess, Susanne Hochscheid, Ursula Thelen, und Kerstin de Witt) who play a variety of recorders, ranging...

This set of two discs is a wonderful compendium to hear, for it is not normal for listeners to have the advantage of a selection of...


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Here is a delightful collection of mostly French vocal and instrumental music from the second half of the 16th century, a bloody, turbulent period in French...

I used to receive discs from this label some years ago, but this is the first time I recall finding one distributed in this country. The...

Poland in the 17th and 18th centuries, like America in the 18th and 19th, was a musical backwater, at least as far as concert music was...

There are many recordings of songs for voice and lute on the market, for men especially the countertenor, but some regular tenor as well. Peter Pears...

This disc features repertoire from an extremely obscure niche of the German Baroque. All of these works are drawn from manuscripts in the Kantoreiarchiv St. Johannis...