January 2022

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Part 5: Back to the Renaissance

This time the Italian early music conductor and performer takes us to Orlando di Lasso’s Neapolitan settings, the Italian organ school around 1600, and Gesualdo’s contemporaries in Northern Italy.

Composer: Orlando di Lasso, Bernardo Pasquini, Giovanni Battista Fasolo, Bernardo Storace, Tarquinio Merula, Emanuele Soncino, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Gregorio Strozzi, Giovanni Picchi, Michelangelo Rossi, Giovanni Salvatore, Adriano Banchieri, Filippo De Monte, Pomponio Nenna, Giovan Domenico Montella, Luzzasco Luzzaschi

CD Info: Opus 111 CD OP 30-94, Opus 111 CD OPS 30-125, Opus 111 CD OPS 30-238

Gallicantus Part 1

Gabriel Crouch, the director of the early music ensemble Gallicantus, guides us through some of their releases. This week, Robert White, The Word Unspoken, and Dialogues of Sorrow.

Composer: William BYRD (1539/40 - 1623), Philippe de MONTE (1521 - 1603), Robert WHITE (d. 1574)

CD Info: Signum CD SIGCD295, Signum CD SIGCD134

Swithun!

Katarina Livljanic and the Dialogos Ensemble’s latest project gives us a tale of “Demons and Miracles from Winchester around 1000,” dedicated to the 9th century Anglo-Saxon St. Swithun, this week.

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CD Info: Arcana CD A491.

Ten Chant Recordings Not to Be Missed, Part 2

In late 2020 for Sacred Music, Jerome F Weber of Fanfare compiled a lifetime’s scholarship on the field to create a Top 10 list of Gregorian Chants. This week, we hear the last four, including a huge setting of the Popule meus.

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CD Info: Jade CD 7432129060 2, Deutsche Gramophone CD 2547 028, Soli Deo Gloria CD 220754 207, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi CD 82876 66649 2

Ten Chant Recordings Not to Be Missed, Part 1

In late 2020 for Sacred Music, Jerome F Weber of Fanfare compiled a lifetime’s scholarship on the field to create a Top 10 list of Gregorian Chants. This week, we hear the first six.

Composer:

CD Info: Angel CD 7243 5 55138 2, Gloriae Dei CD GDCD 033, Jade CD 198548 2, Studio SM CD SM 12 21.00, KRO CD 313-40, Soli Deo Gloria CD 220750 207