Todos Los Bienes Del Mundo

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"Following in the footsteps of Galileo Galilei and other genuine Renaissance spirits, as an ensemble we regard the music of the past as a possibility to renew the present. Thus, our rendition is not the rediscovery of the old repertoires, but the finding of new ways to recreate them, responding to our present expressive needs.

As we are certain that the line that divides popular music from concert music  is more flexible than the rigid separation that has been made of them of late, our repsertoire goes from the music of the Sephardic tradition and the Spanish Renaissance to the music of the Viceroyalty of the New Spain.

Atracted by the music of the ancient Mexican chapels, of the remote migrant Mediterranean peolpe and of the Spanish Renaissance songbooks, we have set out on a voyage through the routes of our resounding veins, discovering the wealth of works from which our musical identity has been constructed." 

Ensemble Galileo

contents:

La Rosa En Florense

Folias

Alegres Luces Del Dia

Calabaca, No Se Buen Amor

Avrix Mi Galanica

La Vida Y La Gloria

El De Pedro Solamente

Todos Los Bienes Del Mundo

Ojos Morenicos

Solamente Me Dexastes

El Ave Al Cielo

Como Aunque Culpa

La Serena

Ensemble Galileo

D. Buxtehude - Scandinavian Cantatas

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This recording offers an unusual selection of Dietrich Buxtehude's vocal music performed by the Grammy-winning ensemble Theatre of Voices conducted by Paul Hillier. Among these rarely heard works with texts in Swedish and Latin, we find cantatas in the form of virtuoso concertos, as well as arias and chorale settings and Buxtehude's only work in the stile antico, the Missa alla brevis.

contents:

Praeludium for Organ in E minor BuxWV 142

Pange lingua gloriosi BuxWV 91

Herren vår Gud BuxWV 40

Ecce nunc benedicite Domino BuxWV 23

Att du Jesu vill mig höra BuxWV 8

Accedite gentes BuxWV 1

Passacaglia for Organ in D minor BuxWV 161

Missa alla brevis BuxWV 114

Domine salvum fac regem BuxWV 18

Bine Bryndorf, organ

Theatre of voices

dir. Paul Hillier

Terpsichore: Renaissance and Early Baroque Dance Music

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The original 91'40'' duration of the LPs is here reduced to 65'45'' by omitting many of the Renaissance items. Even years later, when interest in such things has slightly declined, one may welcome a cavalcade of short pieces (the longest is 4'18'') when the programme is so imaginatively constructed (rightly praised by DA in his original reviews) and the performances are by players who were no longer struggling to master early instruments—Konrad Ragossnig plays the lute but the booklet shows him holding a guitar! The (pre-digital) LP sound was first rate; that of the CD is even better.'

contents:

Anonymous: Lamento di Tristano - La rotta

Anonymous: Trotto

Anonymous: Saltarello (c.1400)

Pierre Attaingnant: Basse danse La brosse - Tripla - Tourdion

Pierre Attaingnant: Basse danse la gatta

Pierre Attaingnant: Basse danse la Magdalena

Joan Ambrosio Dalza: Calata ala Spagnola

Hans Neusidler: Der Judentantz

Hans Neusidler: Welscher Tantz Wascha mesa - Hupfauff

Tilman Susato: Ronde

Claude Gervaise: Branle de Bourgogne

Claude Gervaise: Branle de Champagne

Pierre Phalèse: Passamezzo d'Italye - Reprise - Gaillarde

Giorgio Mainerio: Schiarazula Marazula

Giorgio Mainerio: Tedesca - Saltarello

Giorgio Mainerio: Ungaresca - Saltarello

Jean-Baptiste Bésard: Branle gay

Anonymous: Mascherade

Molinaro Simone: Saltarello

Molinaro Simone: Ballo detto "Il Conte Orlando" - Saltarello

Gesualdo da Venosa: Gagliarda del Principe di Venosa

Mario Fabrizio Caroso: Barriera

Mario Fabrizio Caroso: Celeste Giglio

Pierre Francisque Caroubel: Pavane de Spaigne

Pierre Francisque Caroubel: Courante

Pierre Francisque Caroubel: Volte

Anthony Holborne: Pavan

Anthony Holborne: Noel's Galliard

Anthony Holborne: Coranto "Heigh - Ho Holiday"

Anonymous: Kemp's Jig

John Dowland: Queen Elizabeth's Galliard

John Dowland: Mrs. Winter's Jump

Thomas Simpson: Alman

Orlando Gibbons: Galliard

Michael Praetorius: Galliarde de Monsieur Wustron

Michael Praetorius: Galliarde de la guerre

Michael Praetorius: Reprinse

Valentin Haussmann: Tantz

Valentin Haussmann: Paduan

Valentin Haussmann: Gaillarde

Valentin Haussmann: Catkanei

Ulsamer Collegium

dir.Josef Ulsamer

Konrad Ragossnig (lute)

Siegfried Fink (drums/tambourine)

Sebastian Kelber (recorder)

Elza Van Der Ven (regal)

Dieter Kirsch (lute)

Siegfried Fink (drum)

L'Age d'Or des Castrats

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Aris Christofellis is one of the underlined countertenors in the range of male soprano of the late XX century. As singer, he has been broadly acclaimed, specially for his roles in the late baroque opera. As a musicologist he is very entusiastic in bringing to life ulterior works regarding baroque opera.

contents:

Disc 1

  1. Bononcini - Griselda: Che giova fuggire

  2. Bononcini - Griselda: Troppo è il dolore

  3. Bononcini - Griselda: Per la gloria d'adorarvi

  4. J.C.Bach - Misero me... Nel partir, bell'idol mio, aria

  5. J.C.Bach - Ebben, si vada & Io, ti lascio

  6. J.C.Bach - Mi scordo i torti miei/Dolci aurette

  7. Storace - Ah, se Poro mai vedi. . . Digli che son fedele Egidio

  8. Duni - La dolce compagna

  9. Duni - Sperai vicino il lido

  10. Duni - Misero pargoletto

Disc 2

  1. Hasse - Artaserse: Per questo dolce amplesso

  2. Hasse - Artaserse: Pallido il sole

  3. Ariosti - Artaserse: Récitatif & menuet - Fortuna te passate... Sia pur d'amore

  4. iacomelli - Merope: Merope Polifonte... Quel usignuolo che innamorato

  5. Porpora - Tre solfeggi, for castrato & keyboard: 1. Adagio

  6. Porpora - Tre solfeggi, for castrato & keyboard: 2. Allegro non troppo

  7. Porpora - Tre solfeggi, for castrato & keyboard: 3. Andante

  8. Broschi - Merope: Taccia il vento e la tempesta

  9. Porpora - Orfeo: Son pastorello amante

  10. Duni - Prudente mi chiedi, air

  11. Leo - Catone in Utica: Sarebbe un bel diletto

Aris Christofellis, sopranista

Ensemble d'instruments anciens

Venetian Music For Double Choir

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These superb performances of Venetian Music for Double Choir, have set the bench mark for this style of composition since it’s first appearance in 1993.

Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) was a pioneer in combining the Franco-Flemish contrapuntal style with the colorful sonorities of Italy. He worked most of his life in Venice, and had a profound influence on the subsequent musical events in that city. Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612) was one of the leaders in the new genre of choral-instrumental music. His music is halfway between Baroque and Renaissance. A fine recording which illustrates multiple genres.

contents:

Adriano Willaert

1. Lauda Jerusalem Dominum

2. Crededi, propter quod locutus sum

3. Ricercar X

Giovanni Gabrieli

4. In te Domine Speravi

5. Beata es Virgo

6. Beata es virgo

7. Sancta et immaculata virginitas

8. Angelus Domini

9. O Jesu mi dulcissime

10. Canzon III

11. Exultavit cor meum, in Domino

12. Sancta et immaculata virginitas

13. O Jesu mi dulcissime

14. Benedictus es Dominus, Deus Israel

15. O quam suavis est, Domine, Spiritus

16. Hodie completi sunt dies Pentecostes

Currende

Concerto Palatino

dir. Erik Van Nevel

Johann Krieger - Love Songs & Arias

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Johann Krieger may not be one of the more prominent baroque composers but like his two years older brother Johann Philipp, he is at least something more than a footnote in the annals of music. He was born in Nuremberg and served for some years in Bayreuth and Graz before in 1682 settling in Zittau, where he spent the rest of his life. He seems to have been especially revered for his keyboard compositions and Handel approached him so much that he took a copy of Krieger’s Anmuthige Clavier-Übung to England. He is reputed to have produced large quantities of vocal music, most of which apparently have been lost. No operas have been preserved and of his 225 cantatas only thirty remain.

That he was well equipped to write for the human voice is however very clear when one listens to the songs and arias from Neue musicalische Ergätzlichkeit. The texts were written by Zittau born Christian Weise (1642 - 1708). He was a teacher and in 1678 he was appointed principal at the Gymnasium in his hometown. Today this institution bears his name. In 1679 he started writing school comedies to be performed at the Carneval. Such comedies often had musical inserts and after a while Krieger got this task. In 1684 he published a collection of such settings and it is from this collection the songs on this disc have been chosen.

Weise was an excellent poet, something that Gotthold Ephraim half a century after Weise’s death pointed out, finding parallels even with Shakespeare. Fact is that the texts performed here are unusually witty, often humoristic, sometimes satirical. Considering that 325 years have passed since they were written, they are surprisingly modern and they express feelings and situations in a way that makes the reader feel that the late 17th century wasn’t too unlike our present world.

Even the music feels extremely fresh with captivating rhythms and catchy melodies, some of them probably inspired by folk songs of the day. The United Continuo Ensemble, playing on period instruments, have specialized in basso continuo instruments in their cooperation with singers, dancers, actors and other instrumentalists. They work well here and there is true heft when they are joined by the two trumpets in a couple of numbers.

Jan Kobow has emerged as one of the most outstanding German lyric tenor lately. His Die schöne Müllerin some years ago was one of my Recordings of the Year, a disc in the Naxos Complete Schubert Edition was also very successful and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung for the same company, where he was the excellent tenor soloist, almost swept the board with the competition. Quite recently he also appeared as operetta singer in Lehár’s Die blaue Mazur. He also appears on another dozen recordings for CPO. It is a beautiful voice, flexible, elegant, honeyed when needed and, first and foremost, his enunciation is exemplary. Even without the printed texts every syllable can be heard with the utmost clarity. To this must be added that he can express the meaning of the text, colour the tone - in sum: he is a superb interpreter.

The first three titles are sacred arias and they are more or less solemn but with a nice twist every so often. Then follows two groups of secular songs, and they are gorgeous. Ihr Freunde, fragt ihr noch, lively and rhythmic, followed attacca by Kömmt wir wollen ausspazieren, where Kobow indulges in some charming whistling at the end, are just appetizing starters. The real treats are found in the second secular group, where Ich habe mein Liebgen im Garten gesehen is so extremely beautiful and Kobow sings it with marvellous tone. The fast and rhythmic Ich traue nicht is intensely dramatic and has some fearsome runs, while the ironic Die Losung ist Geld erases more than three centuries: money was then and is today the solution! For the concluding group we are back where we started: with some sacred arias, of which Neu Jahrs-Andacht has the singer rejoicing the arrival of Jesus to the New Year, and the Abend-Musick is a festive conclusion, employing the full band with trumpets and timpani.

Soprano Julia von Landsberg appears in two numbers and sings well and the recording is atmospheric. On their own the ensemble play three sonatas by Philipp Friedrich Buchner, who was a generation older than Krieger. It is nice and varied music and ideal resting points between the groups of songs. The main attraction is however Krieger’s secular songs and they are certainly my baroque discovery of the year. This is a disc that shouldn’t be missed by any lover of vocal music from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Göran Forsling

contents:

1. Auff die Kirch-Weihe

2. Oster-Andacht

3. Vor der Trauung

4. Philipp Friedrich Buchner- Sonata for 2 Violins & Bassoon

5. Lasst uns freuen

6. Ihr Freunde, fragt ihr noch

7. Kömmt wir wollen ausspazieren

8. Lasst mich in der Einsamkeit

9. Sonate für 2 Violins

10. Es ist mir von Natur gegeben

11. Ihr angenehmen Leute

12. Ich habe mein Liebgen im Garten gesehen

13. Ich traue nicht

14. Die Losung ist Geld

15. Sonate für Violin & Bassoon

16. Neu Jahrs-Andacht

17. Auff ein Ernte-Fest

18. Abend-Andacht

19. Abend Musick Sei willkommen

Jan Kobow, tenor

Julia von Landsberg, soprano

United Continuo Ensemble

Le Concert Royal de la Nuit

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In late February 1653, just after the Fronde rebellion, the most influential spectacle of the early reign of Louis XIV was presented at the Louvre: the Ballet Royal de la Nuit. Grandiose, and carefully elaborated at the highest levels of the state, the libretto by Benserade called upon the finest artists of the time. Banishing the troubles of night, Louis XIV danced in the Sun King costume that would henceforth be forever associated with him. This unmissable world premiere recording presents a reconstruction of the work created by Sebastien Dauce that includes music by Jean de Cambefort, Antoine Boesset, Louis Constantin, Michel Lambert, Francesco Cavalli and Luigi Rossi.

Sébastien Daucé spent three years reconstructing the music from the huge piece, performed in 1653, with 15-year-old Louis dancing the sun king to wild acclaim. Little record was kept of those who contributed music for the ballet, but Jean de Cambefort was definitely among them and Daucé has intelligently reworked incomplete sketches made 40 years after the work’s performance, interpolating some passages from Francesco Cavalli and others, all sung and played with tremendous verve by the suave singers and players of the Ensemble Correspondances.

Ensemble Correspondances

dir. Sebastien Dauce

J. M. Leclair - Musique De Chambre

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This is ripped from vinyl, MAK needs no introduction.

contents:

Ouvertüre D-dur für zwei Violinen und Continuo • op.13,2

Sonate (Duo) g-moll für zwei Violinen • op.12,5

Trio (Ouvertüre) A-dur für zwei Violinen und Continuo • op.14

Sonate (Duo) B-dur für zwei Violinen • op.12,6

Musica Antiqua Koln

Reinhard Goebel, violin

Hajo Bäß, violin

Charles Medlam, cello

Henk Bouman, harpsichord

Carlo Milanuzzi - Arias and Dances

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This CD is entirely devoted to the music of the early Baroque Italian composer, poet and organist, Carlo Milanuzzi. During his lifetime, Milanuzzis fame spread far and wide; today, however, he is shrouded in obscurity. The artists hope that this recording the first dedicated to his music will contribute to the rediscovery of one of the most significant Italian musicians of the 17th century. Indeed, it seems that Milanuzzi enjoyed a veritable pop star status back in his day. In addition to masses, motets and psalms, he also wrote nearly 200 songs (brought together in nine books entitled Le Ariose Vaghezze which were published between 1622 and 1643), works which reveal him to be one of the most progressive monodists of his generation, clearly intent on reaching as wide an audience as possible. The arias to be found in the nine volumes, 13 of which feature on this recording, are mostly short, tuneful pieces in the style that was rapidly gaining popularity in northern Italy in the 1620s. They are complemented by instrumental dances written in guitar alfabeto notation, expanded on this recording by way of a larger ensemble. Performing the arias is Baroque specialist and mezzosoprano Lucia Sciannimanico, who has appeared in festivals across Europe and worked with renowned conductors such as Nicholas Cleobury and Alessandro De Marchi. She is joined on the recording by the Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini, directed by esteemed lutenist and Brilliant Classics regular Gian Luca Lastraoili.

contents:

1 - E pur ancora lusingando vai

2 - Amate mie stelle

3 - Lilla, mio cor

4 - Vado altronde, Lidia, addio

5 - Ballo delle torce

6 - Vanne, và, ti fida o mio core

7 - Bergamasca

8 - Sì dolce è il tormento

9 - Vedilo, vedilo là

10 - Togliti dagli occhi miei

11 - Battaglia

12 - Rapitemi, feritemi

13 - Amor, altri si duol

14 - Padoana

15 - Non si scherzi con Amore

16 - Fuggi, fuggi dolente core

17 - Ciaccona

18 - Alla Donna sol piace

Lucia Sciannimanico, Mezzo-Soprano

Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini

lute & dir. Gian Luca Lastraoili

Chamber Vespers

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The Devine Vespers, a service of evening prayer in the Roman-Catholic Church, has provided both occasion and inspiration for some of the most sumptuous music ever composed. But not many churches in the seventeenth century could afford the lavish instrumental and vocal resources needed to play the likes of Monteverdi's grandiose Vespro della Beata Vergine. For many of the smaller and more provincial churches, an acceptable compromise at evening service was the playing of smaller-scale sacred chamber music. This led in the seventeenth century to a tremendous outpouring of sacred music for small groups of singers and instrumentalists, as performed by The Gonzaga Band on this disc. During Vespers, it became commonplace to alternate the obligatory psalms with a number of extra-liturgical instrumental pieces. This recording follows the same structure. The psalms, by Banchieri, Finetti, Petrobelli, and Monferrato, are complemented and framed by a variety of joyous instrumental works by Tarditi, Cima, Piccinini, Frescobaldi, Crotti, Sances, and Cazzati. The Gonzaga Band was formed by the cornettist Jamie Savan in 1997 to explore historical approaches to the performance of vocal and instrumental music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its line-up is project led: the very best vocalists and period instrumentalists are hand picked according to the specialist requirements of each programme. On this recording, The Gonzaga Band is joined by the mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson and cornettist Gawain Glenton.

contents:

1 - Domine ad adjuvandum me by Orazio Tarditi

2 - Psalm 109, "Dixit Dominus" by Adriano Banchieri

3 - Sonata per cornetto by Giovanni Paolo Cima

4 - Psalm 2, "Laudate pueri" by Giacomo Finetti

5 - Toccata No. 4 by Alessandro Piccinini

6 - Psalm 2, "Laetatus sum" by Francesco Petrobelli

7 - Canzon terza by Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi

8 - Psalm 8, "Nisi Dominus" by Orazio Tarditi 

9 - Capriccio sopra un soggetto by G.A.Frescobaldi

10 - Psalm 5, "Lauda Jerusalem" by Natale Monferrato

11 - Sonata sopra, "Sancta Maria" by Archangelo Crotti

12 - Motetto Ave maris stella by Giovanni Felice Sances 

13 - Canticle: Magnificat by Adriano Banchieri

14 - Regina caeli by Maurizio Cazzati

Clare Wilkinson, mezzo-soprano

Gawain Glenton, cornett

The Gonzaga Band

Faye Newton, soprano

Jamie Savan, treble cornett, mute cornett

Richard Sweeney, theorbo

Steven Devine, harpsichord, chamber organ

dir. Jamie Savan

Bella Napoli

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Bella Napoli includes works from five composers influenced in Naples in the 17th and 18th centuries. Soprano Tuuli Lindeberg sings cantatas of Domenico Scarlatti, Giuseppe Porsile and Alessandro Scarlatti beautifully and a period-instrument ensemble Baccano, featuring some of the most prominent Baroque specialist musicians in Finland, performs also sonatas of Francesco Mancini, Domenico Scarlatti and Nicola Porpora with different line-ups.

A few hundreds of years ago musical life in Naples was lively, with contributions made by numerous foreign masters who imported and exported influences, ideas and sheet music. The nobility played an important role in this: they were not only ‘customers' and ‘sponsors' but also in many cases skilled musicians. Under their patronage, Naples produced an enormous quantity of sacred music, madrigals, instrumental music and vocal music that went on to enrich cultural life all over Europe. For a long time, opera was an imported commodity in Naples, described as ‘Venetian'. Over the centuries the term ‘Neapolitan opera' has come to signify much more than it geographically implies.

contents:

Francesco Mancini - Sonata 4 in A minor for recorder and b.c.

Domenico Scarlatti - No, non fuggire o Nice, cantata for soprano and b.c.

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata K 91 in G major for violin and b.c.

Giuseppe Porsile - E già tre volte, cantata for soprano, recorder and b.c.

Nicola Porpora - Sonata in F major for cello and b.c.

Giuseppe Porsile - Quella pace gradita, cantata for soprano, violin, recorder, cello and b.c.

Baccano

Tuuli Lindeberg, Soprano

Hanna Haapamäki, Recorder

Mervi Kinnarinen, Baroque Violin

Jussi Seppänen, Baroque Cello

Eero Palviainen, Baroque Guitar, Lute

Markku Mäkinen,Harpsichord

Bernhard de Clairvaux - Medieval Music Of The Cistercians

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Bernard of Clairvaux, saint, ascetic, founder of numerous abbeys and crusade preacher, was a powerful man of the Church and a 12th century trailblazer. Ensemble officium presents a programme of Gregorian chant and early polyphony in celebration of this controversial saint. Included are songs by and about Bernard of Clairvaux and Gregorian chorales on the texts of the Song of Songs, which are closely linked with his theology.

contents:

1 - Domine, labia mea aperies

2 - Hymnus in festo St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Bernardus inclytis

3 - Jubilus rhythmicus de nomini Jesu: Jesu dulcis memoria

4 - Filia Jerusalem

5 - Quam pulchra es

6 - Jubilus rhythmicus de nomini Jesu II

7 - Electa mea

8 - Et dilectus meus

9 - Jubilus rhythmicus de nomini III

10 - Verbum caro factum est

11 - Salve virgo nobilis - Verbum caro - Et veritate

12 - Jubilus rhythmicus de nomini IV

13 - Ecce iste venit

14 - Quae est ista

15 - Jubilus rhythmicus de nomini V

16 - Surge, propera

17 - Anima mea - Descendi in hortum - Alma redemptoris mater

18 - Jubilus rhythmicus de nomini VI

19 - Vox turturis

20 - Sancte Bernarde

21 - Hymnus in festo St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Bernardus, doctor inclytus

Ensemble Officium

dir. Wilfried Rombach

Italian Recorder Sonatas

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Trio Passaggio was founded in 1991. The name of the ensemble is derived from the early baroque performance practice of improvising diminutions, an art which was cultivated principally in Italy. Trio Passaggio concertizes widely, mainly in Holland but also in France, Germany, Austria and Denmark. In september 1993 the ensemble was one of the laureates of the presentation competition organised by the "Nederlandse Impresariaat". In october 1994 it gave a successful series of concerts in the United States and Canada.

contents:

Biagio Marini - Sonata Duodecima (Op.VIII,1629)

Biagio Marini - Sonata Prima (Op.XIII,1629)

Biagio Marini - Romanesca (Op.III,1620

Biagio Marini - Sonata a due (Op.XXII,1655)

Tarquinio Merula - Capriccio Cromatico

Giovanni Pandolfi Mealli - Sonata Prima 'La Bernabea' (Op.IV,1660)

Giovanni Pandolfi Mealli - Sonata Quarta 'La Castella' (Op.III,1660)

Giovanni Pandolfi Mealli - Sonata Seconda 'La Cesta' (Op.IV,1660)

Tarquinio Merula - Tocatta del secondo tono

Benedetto Marcello - Sonata in a-minor (Op.II,3 1712)

Benedetto Marcello - Sonata in G-major (Op.I,6 1732)

Benedetto Marcello - Sonata in d-minor (Op.II,2 1712)

Trio Passaggio 

Matthias Maute, flauti

Norbert Kunst, fagotti

Pieter Dirksen, organo e cembalo