Medieval Instrumental Music - Medieval Life
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If you want to get a good idea of what musical entertainment was like in southern France and Italy in the 13th century, or if you just want to be entertained, this recording of stylish, expert performances will satisfy your desire. The troubadours were the first to work toward perfection of poetic form and vernacular language. Dante, the famous 13t... [Read More]
Unfortunately a very short LP, which could have been on one plate side, or on a 25 cm LP. Or special music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, performed by Stanley Buetens Lute ensemble : Stanley Buetens: lute, tenor, conductor Martha Blackman: violins Roland Blow: recorders, crumhorns Diane Tramontini: soprano Linda Nied: recorders Catherine Lid... [Read More]
This CD represents masterpieces of Ukrainian Orthodox Church music performed by the famous monastic choir of Kiev Pechersk Monastery. During the centuries the specific style of Christian church chorus music (meditation chanting )was formed in the monastery. The origin of chants is in XI century when monk Anthony, arrived from Aphona, founded the Ki... [Read More]
A Feast of Songs is a lively collection of familiar and unusual traditional songs and dances from the middle ages that celebrate the winter season and its associated festivals and holidays. Songs from the British Isles, Ireland, Germany, France, Poland and Sweden blend medieval and renaissance tonalities with a festive folk energy that awakens the ... [Read More]
The Early Music Collection is a wide-ranging survey that traces the history of Western music from plainchant, the music of the Catholic Church, through polyphony, to the end of the 17th century. It includes leading ensembles and instrumentalists. Many of the individual albums have been critically lauded. Recent years have brought a vast expansion i... [Read More]
Here are five and a half hours of little-known music dating from the mid-12th century to the start of the 16th. Some of it comes from France (Provence, in particular), some from Spain (songs of praise to the Virgin Mary--many in amazing dance rhythms), some from Italy (songs of love and war of the troubadours). There are instrumentals with great vi... [Read More]
You can listen this album online on http://www.origenmusic.com/sacred-choir-music-2.html _____________ This album is an excellent introduction to Eastern sacred music. Repertoire covers the period from the 13th century and includes ancient chants, baroque music, works by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, original church bells ringing and traditional Chris... [Read More]
In the six years since this female quartet astonished the music world with its clear- voiced, impeccably sung renditions of medieval chant and polyphonic music, chant rose from the dark and dusty corners of classical music to enjoy a phenomenal run at center stage. New and reissued chant recordings achieved sales figures normally reserved for popul... [Read More]
Dan Fogelberg's first Christmas album is a smartly informed collection of familiar holiday hymns, carols, and deliciously original music inspired by the Renaissance period. The standard interpretations such as "I Saw Three Ships" and "O Tannenbaum" prove satisfying and enjoyable. "At Christmas Time," a Fogelberg original, sounds as if it were lifte... [Read More]
Pianist Jeremy Denk's c. 1300-c. 2000 presents a centuries-long story of constantly emerging possibilities and styles of musical expression, an evolution drawn in a single arc by the music of twenty-four different composers, from Guillaume de Machaut to György Ligeti. "A piano recital covering 700 years of music: by most accepted definitions, that... [Read More]
"The soundtrack to BBC-PBS television series "Wolf Hall" brings King Henry VIII's court to life with dances and songs - some of which were composed by the monarch himself. Filmed in the great historic houses in England, the series features specialist early musicians playing live on set. All the Tudor Music for the production has been carefully sour... [Read More]
Ritchie Blackmore's post-Deep Purple outfit was a standout among late-'70s and early-'80s hard rock/metal bands, and this double-disc anthology deals 28 of their best tracks, taken from all nine of their Polydor albums! Includes Man on the Silver Mountain; Catch the Rainbow; Stargazer ; the live, 13-minute Blackmore guitar showcase Mistreated; Kill... [Read More]
World music fusion brings multiple cultures together - Indian and Western musical cultures in this release, specifically. A unique display of instruments such as the sitar, pakhavaj, ghatam and darbuka paired with the keyboard, saxophone, and classical guitar illuminates an extraordinary fusion of two different worlds. Instrument explanations are p... [Read More]
How's this for a concept: "True love may exist only outside of marriage, and a man must subject himself totally to the will of his beloved, whether or not her requests seem rational." If you think these ideas strange, be glad you weren't looking for love in France in the Middle Ages. These precepts course through thousands of song lyrics and love p... [Read More]
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