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No matter how well-intentioned–and I’m sure that the five members of Ars Antiqua de Paris (countertenor, tenor, two baritones, and bass) offer these performances with
Scholars poking around in old manuscripts are always finding interesting things to share with eager performers and listeners. Often these gems are fragments and snippets
The unwieldy title of this disc refers to the ancient name given to the seven main stars of the Ursa major constellation, one of the
You could write a whole treatise–quite a few actually–on the music featured on this fine disc from the early music ensemble La Reverdie. But, if
Piers Adams is the Andrew Manze of the recorder. And not only that–he’s the Paganini too, a consummate artistic interpreter and unabashed virtuoso showoff all
There are several excellent recorded versions of Machaut’s mass, which, as one of the great masterpieces of the Middle Ages is a work whose monumental
This new disc from the famed Waverly Consort contains a thoughtfully organized and beautifully presented program that at once reminds us of the early origins
The disc’s subtitle is “13th-century Galician-Portuguese Songs & Dances of Love, Longing, & Devotion”. My subtitle is, “this is one of the finest discs of
Josquin Desprez, who bridged the 15th and 16th centuries, stands at the musical pinnacle of his era much the same as Bach did two centuries
What is this extraordinary music? you’ll find yourself asking within the first few seconds of the first track. Benedetto Marcello, a contemporary of Bach and
