The Canadian early-music duo La Tour Baroque Duo consists of recorder player/harpsichordist Tim Blackmore and lutenist Michel Cardin. I first encountered Cardin’s playing about 15 years...
A few issues back I reviewed a new release by Stimmwerck devoted to the St. Emmeram Mensural Codex (Aeolus 10023), part of the celebrations surrounding a...
This is the first album for A Chantar. It’s a group of five musicians: Regina Kabis, soprano vocalist; recorder performer Manuela Mohr; Marc Lewon, lute, vocals,...
This album’s title is a bit misleading. Typically, frottole were polyphonic settings by Italian composers of secular verse in the early 16th century, with the song...
Concept albums always run the risk of becoming shelves that get buried under a ton of irrelevant musical material—but not here. The subject is simple: vocal...
This anthology of 20 Renaissance dance pieces from the early 17th century draws (with once exception, Samuel Scheidt) upon various composers, now mostly quite obscure, who...
This is a perfectly delightful potpourri disc of music for the Advent and Christmas seasons. (The booklet makes a nod toward diversity by also claiming to...
