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The late medieval Office of the Holy Blood is Xs.Sal in Andrew Hughes’s terminology. The neumes of the two 13th-century sources in Weingarten have been transcribed...

Like so many other discs drawn from this medieval manuscript, the program includes eight of the more familiar selections. In addition, there are four texts previously...


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This compilation of chants from 10 earlier discs, all of which mixed chant with polyphony, appears just in time for the national tour that the ensemble...

This disc is an important addition to the discography of early English polyphonic masses. In The Rise of European Music, 1380–1500 (19:2), Reinhard Strohm finds the...

I’ve heard a number of these East/West programs from several performing groups (Eduardo Paniagua has done some of them). Nine tracks are devoted to laude, or...

There are no recognizable composers to be listed, unless we count three cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio, all sung at length if not complete. The program...


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Both discs were recorded last year in time for the observance of the quincentenary of the coronation of Henry VIII. The Carus disc spans the reigns...

This is the third in a series of recordings based on manuscripts from medieval convents on the Lüneburg Heath in northern Germany. Ebstorf convent, like the...

This is Ricercar’s annual reissue-cum-catalog, priced as a promotion. The title of the disc refers to the opening work. Marking the 20th anniversary of the death...

This was Hyperion 66783 (19:4), the third of five discs in a series that is rapidly reappearing at midprice. That review was the occasion for a...

Despite the list of composers, this program features only madrigals of Caccini and Monteverdi, for all the others are represented by instrumental selections, one apiece. Caccini’s...

René Clemencic has returned to one of his most successful ventures, songs from the 13th-century Carmina burana . On five LPs he produced one of the...