Collections: Early Music

Often we get thematic programs of early music that don’t fit the particulars when they’re examined up close. Not for the most part here, however. This...

As far back as Fanfare 25:1, this magazine published an interview with Doug Fullington. His Seattle-based choir has been praised here for several recordings on different...

As in their last two issues ( Fanfare 36:5), a schola of seven members of the choir based on Cape Cod have sung another collection of...

Subtitled “Music from the Medici Codex of 1518,” this comes on the heels of “The Medici Wedding” by the Ring Ensemble on Alba 154, which duplicates...

Alla Francesca’s latest album consists of 16 selections, including 11 vocals, and five instrumentals. The first group derives from a single, if problematically complex, source: the...

We just heard the first disc devoted entirely to this 15th-century manuscript ( Fanfare 36:2). As we saw before, the name given to it when it...

Gimell has repackaged its catalog very effectively, finding themes to focus its programs and filling the discs to the brim. The latest is a broad cross-section...

Jordi Savall has outdone himself with this latest book-size thematic issue, the ninth by my count (two more seem to be imminent). The subject is the...

Despite an uncertain future EMI continues to reissue recordings from the company’s vast catalogue. The current series, under the name Icon, has given us many treasures...

This disc, which followed Delectamentum ( Fanfare 33:3) in the Schola’s program, was not sent for review, but there are several reasons for hearing it now....