The Early Music Collection - Box Set 30CDs

 

Label : Naxos

Format : Flac (image + cue)

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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 in our understanding and knowledge of early music periods. There has been investigation into the repertoire and techniques of other ages, coupled with a movement that has favored the use of instruments and ways of playing them that are more or less authentic. Even where surviving historical instruments or modern reproductions of them are not used, the styles of performance have been influenced. Above all the myth of unending progress has been abandoned in favor of an evaluation of each period and type of music on its own terms. Early Music, in fact, has become a flourishing industry, stimulated by the remarkable growth in production and distribution of early music. For our present purposes we limit the term Early Music to cover a period ranging from plainchant to the end of the 17th century. The period that followed, the age of Bach and Handel and the great synthesis of the Late Baroque, is generally more familiar to listeners and is, in any case, another story.

CD 1 ADORATE DEUM (Nova Schola Gregoriana, Turco)

CD 2 HILDEGARD VON BINGEN: Hymns / Sequences / Antiphones / Responds (Oxford Camerata, Summerly)

CD 3 MUSIC OF THE TROUBADOURS (Ensemble Unicorn) 

CD 4 NEIDHART: Minnesinger and His Vale of Tears (A) - Songs and Interludes (Ensemble Leones)

CD 5 CARMINA BURANA (Ensemble Unicorn, Oni Wytars Ensemble)

CD 6 MACHAUT, D. de: Messe de Nostre Dame (La) / Le Voir Dit (Oxford Camerata, Summerly)

CD 7 ARGENTUM ET AURUM (Ensemble Leones, Lewon)

CD 8 DUFAY, G.: Chansons (Ensemble Unicorn, Posch)  

CD 9 OCKEGHEM, J.: Requiem / Missa Prolationum (Musica Ficta, Holten) 

CD 10 MUSIC FROM THE ETON CHOIRBOOK (Tonus Peregrinus, Pitts)  

CD 11 MISSA CONCEPTIO TUA - Medieval and Renaissance Music for Advent (Schola Antiqua of Chicago, M.A. Anderson)  

CD 12 A-la-mi-re Manuscripts (The): Flemish Polyphonic Treasures (Capilla Flamenca, Denecker)

CD 13 ANCHIETA, J. de: Missa Sine Nomine (Capilla Peñaflorida)

CD 14 FROTTOLE - Popular Songs of Renaissance Italy (Ring Around Quartet and Consort)  

CD 15 JOSQUIN: Missa L'homme arme / Ave Maria / Absalon, fili mi (Oxford Camerata, Summerly)

CD 16 MILÁN, L. de / NARVÁEZ, L. de: Music for Vihuela (C. Wilson)  

CD 17 TALLIS, T.: Spem in alium / Missa Salve intemerata (Oxford Camerata, Summerly) 

CD 18 PALESTRINA, G.P. da: Missa Papae Marcelli (Oxford Camerata, Summerly)  

CD 19 LASSUS, O. de: Lagrime di San Pietro (Ars Nova, Holten)  

CD 20 BYRD, W.: Fantasias for Harpsichord (Complete) (G. Wilson) 

CD 21 GABRIELI, G.: Music for Brass, Vol. 2 (London Symphony Brass, Crees) 

CD 22 Elizabethan Songs and Consort Music (C. King, Rose Consort of Viols)  

CD 23 SWEELINCK, J.P.: Organ Works (Christie)  

CD 24 DOWLAND, J.: Lute Music, Vol. 3 (North) - Pavans, Galliards and Almains 

CD 25 GESUALDO, C.: Madrigals, Book 1 (Madrigali libro primo, 1594) (Delitiae Musicae, Longhini)

CD 26 CAMPION, T.: Lute Songs (Rickards, Linell) 

CD 27 MONTEVERDI, C.: Madrigals, Book 5 (Il Quinto Libro de' Madrigali, 1605) (Delitiae Musicae, Longhini)

CD 28 TOMKINS, T.: Consort Music for Viols and Voices (Rose Consort of Viols) 

CD 29 GUERRA MANUSCRIPT (The), Vol. 1 (Monar, Vilas) 

CD 30 LAWES, W.: Consort Music for Viols, Lutes and Theorbos (Rose Consort of Viols) 

Complete tracklist : The Early Music Collection