Issue 36:4
Mar/Apr 2013
Magazine Contents

Collections: Early Music

Recordings of 17th-century Italian chamber music tend to concentrate upon the violin, or the harpsichord. and with good reason, particularly in the case of the former,...

“17th century music from the Spanish territories” covers a broad expanse of land, indeed. The Spanish empire of the senior Habsburg line reached the apogee of...

The third installment out of six ( Fanfare 35:5), these discs offer selections from Codex C (a 19th-century designation) of the set of six choir books...

This album derives much of its vocal content from two unique manuscripts. The Cancionero Musical de Palacio is a celebrated collection of nearly 460 songs, most...

French official culture has been infatuated with Greco-Roman myth since Merovingian clerics were encouraged to invent a legendary national founder, Francus, and describe him as a...

This is a compilation of seven discs Millenarium has released over the years. In chronological order, they are: The Masters of the Florentine Organetto (1998)

When does an early-music ensemble go Pop? Or Mod for that matter? The answer may well be when it’s Armonico Consort, with its very eclectic and...

I have seen this label, usually with two lavishly packaged discs for each issue, only in Spain, so the arrival of this new import is encouraging....

Terpsichore , the 1612 collection of 300 plus dances arranged by the indefatigable Michael Praetorius, has proven a goldmine over the years to early-music ensembles, both...

The recent beginning to the recovery of the wealth of Neapolitan instrumental music of the late Baroque and early Classical periods has now resulted in a...