January 2020

The Early French Baroque

Two recordings of Courtly Airs with the Zephyrus Flutes and Le Poème harmonique, and the Royal Ballet of the Night from 1653.

Composer: Henri Le Bailly , Etienne Moulinié (1599-1676), Jean de Cambefort (c.1605-1661), Antoine Boësset (1587-1643), Louis Constantin (1697-1779), Michel Lambert (1610-1696), Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), Luigi Rossi (1597-1653)  Jean Boyer, Antoine Boesset (1587-1643), Pierre Guédron (1565-1620), Fabrice-Marin Caietain, Girard de Beaulieu, Adrian LeRoy, Charles Tessier, Didier Le Blanc, Guillaume Costeley, Luis de Briceño, Isaac de Benserade (1613-1691) 

CD Info: Zephyrus CD ZF002, Alpha CD 462, Harmonia Mundi CD HMM 902603.06

Yet Three More from Tactus

The History of St. Martin, 1558; Marian music of the early Italian Baroque; and mandolin compositions by Filippo Sauli.

Composer: Petrus Hedus (1427-1504), Roberto Cascio, Marchetto Cara (1465-1525), Vincenzo Capirola (1474-1548), Josquin des Prez (1450-1521), Joan Ambroso Dalza (?-1508), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Claudio Merulo (1533-1604), Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Giovanni Battista Grillo (?-1622)

CD Info: Tactus CD TC 520003, Tactus CD TC 600006, Tactus CD TC 671901

Three More Polish Discs

The beautiful compositions of Waclaw z Szamotuly, Polish lute music, and celebratory works for the Union of Lublin treaty of 1569.

Composer: Waclaw of Szamotuly (ca. 1520/25ca. 1560), Albert Dlugoraj (1558-after 1618), Diomedes Cato (1565-1628), Jakub Polak (c.1545-1605), Mikołaj z Krakowa, Krzysztof Borek, Wiktoryna, Jana z Lublina, Krzysztof Borek

CD Info: Raum Klang CD RK3801, Hänssler CD HC19034, DUX CD 1549

The First Circumnavigation of the Globe

A new boxed set from Jordi Savall’s label gives us a musical portrait of Juan Sebastian Elkano, who completed the voyage Magellan did not.

Composer: Benjamín de Tudela, Darwish Mustafá, Dimitrie Cantemir, Abu al-Abbás Ahmad, F. Atlan, E. Solinís, Margarita de Navarra (1492-1549), Claude Gervaise (1525-1583), Yehudá Halevi, Juan de Anchieta (1462-1523), Mateo Flecha (1481-1553), Bernat Etxepare (c. 1480-1545), Miguel Navarro, Pierre Attaignant (1494-1552), Robert Ballard, Martínez de Bizcargui (1480-1540), J. Haranburu, Luis Alberto de Gómez, Lope de Aguirre, 1561, George Paul, Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739), )

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