Though advertised as a collection of Italian baroque recordings by Chiari Banchini’s Ensemble 415 and Amandine Beyer’s Gli Incogniti, all but one of these albums is...
The seventh issue by the Viennese ensemble Cinquecento belongs to an earlier era than the mid 15th-century period that has provided most of their repertoire. As...
The subtitle, “Sacred Music in Early 18th-Century Naples,” reminds us that San Gennaro (Januarius) is the patron saint of that city, or rather one of scores...
“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...
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,...
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...
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...
The idea behind this very eclectic disc is, according to the somewhat perfunctory booklet notes, to explore through chamber music the stereotypes of passionate Italians and...
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...
