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Top Ten Early Music Recordings of 1991

Program: #91-52🎁   Air Date: Dec 30, 1991

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Fr. Jerome Weber, Early Music critic for Fanfare Magazine, annually picks the top ten releases of the year. He and Robert Aubry Davis start with Gregorian Chant and work through the Early Baroque to select their 1991 "best of" list.

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  1. Anon.: Beneventan Chant: Sancti videntes angelum. (Women of the Schola Hungarica / Janka Szendrei). Hungaroton CD HCD-31168
  2. PHILIPPE LE CHANCELIER: Luto carens et latere. (Sequentia Ensemble). BMG CD 77035
  3. BENART DE VENTADORN: Can vei la lauzeta mover.
    Anon.: Quant voi l'abete / Diexl je ne m'ein partiré ja. (Gothic Voices / Christopher Page). Hyperion CD 66423
  4. PHILIPPE DE VITRY: Petre clemens / Lugentium siccentur. (Orlando Consort). Amon Ra CD SAR-49
  5. Anon.: Messe de Tournai: Credo. (Ensemble Organum / Marcel Pérès) . Harmonia Mundi CD HNC-901353
  6. BRUMEL: Missa “Et ecce terrae motus": Agnus Dei. (Huelgas Ensemble / Paul van Nevel). Sony Vivarte CD 46348
  7. EMILIO DE CAVALIERI: Lamentations of Jeremiah: Final lesson. (I Madrigalisti del Centro di Musica Antica de Padova) Tactus CD 5503.050
  8. WILLIAM BYRD: Mass for 4 voices: Agnus Dei; Gradualia: Tu et Petrus. (The Sixteen / Harry Christopher) . Virgin CD VC-7-91133
  9. MONTEVERDI: Ego Flos campi. (Gérard Lesne, alto / I Seminario Musicale Tragicomedia). Virgin CD VC -7-91145
  10. DELALANDE: Confitebor tibi Domine: Gloria Patri. (Les Arts Florissants Ensemble / William Christie) HM CD HMC.901351

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