Lassus: The Alchemist, Volume 3 • Magnificat & The City Musick
Orlande de Lassus (c. 1532–1594) was arguably the most versatile composer of the late Renaissance, and the one who most fully embodies the Franco-Flemish tradition at its culmination.
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Palestrina: Song of Songs • The Sixteen
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's fourth book of motets (1584) sets poetry from the Old Testament as five-voice works, SSATB, SATTB, and SAATB.
Music to Hear: Ferrabosco Volumes 2 & 3 • Boothby
Volume 1 of this set appeared in 2023, played by Boothby. I did not review that edition, but I did this past March audition the release of this music by Paolo Pandolfo on Glossa.
Missae Angelus Domini & Dum Complerentur • I Fagiolini
This is the third and final installment of I Fagiolini's series of Orazio Benevoli's mid-17th-century multi-choir masses, directed by Robert Hollingworth.
Visionaries of Piano Music: Byrd & Bull • Armstrong
There’s a knee-jerk reaction to the title of this album. Of course William Byrd and John Bull never knew or experienced a concert grand.
Libro primo • Lislevand
In this album from lutenist Rolf Lislevand comes a recital of pieces from the early 17th century, picked from the first published editions of the composers assembled: Kapsberger, Foscarini, Ortiz.
Scorrete lagrime mie – Music for Solo Sackbut
Many of the solo sonatas written for an instrument with continuo, starting some fifteen years into the seventeenth century, were intended for “sopranos,” which might include the violin or the cornetto, as the two…
Lachrimae – Capriccio Stravagante
Some weeks ago I took in an online webinar from the Clavecin Society in San Francisco which featured a conversation with Skip Sempé.
Melancholy Grace • Jean Rondeau
This generous recital (79 minutes) from Jean Rondeau was released in the spring of 2021 on Erato. The collection explores the meaning of melancholy, one of those terms I remember learning in the tenth grade as part of…