Renaissance Archive
![“Nine Notes That Shook the World” [TrackList follows] – Ronn McFarlane & Mindy Rosenfeld – various Renaissance, Celtic & Baroque instruments – (Sono Luminus audio-only Blu-ray & CD)](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Nine-NotesBLUx.jpg)
“Nine Notes That Shook the World” [TrackList follows] – Ronn McFarlane & Mindy Rosenfeld – various Renaissance, Celtic & Baroque instruments – (Sono Luminus audio-only Blu-ray & CD)
Again intimate music receives the regal treatment and benefits greatly by it.
MOERAN: Cello Concerto; Serenade in G; Lonely Waters; Whythorne’s Shadow Guy Johnston, cello/ Rebekah Coffey, sop./ Ulster Orch./ JoAnn Falletta – Naxos
Composer Edward Moeran emerges as more than “a singular success” in this fine assortment of concert works.
“Weynacht Gesaenge”: Advent and Christmas in the Renaissance and Early Baroque – Stimmwerck – Christophorus
The perfect way to celebrate Christmas Eve.
Marcus Miller – Renaissance – Concord Jazz
A significant release for jazz-funk aficionados.
JOSQUIN: De beate virgine; Ave maris stella – Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips – Gimell
Do the Tallis Scholars ever make a bad recording?
Vergine Bella: Madrigali da sonar – Madrigals and instr, arr. by ARCADELT, BASSANO, CIMA, MAINIERO, DE RORE, PALESTRINA, RUFFO – Arianna Savall, sop./ Il Desiderio/ Thomas Kügler – Aeolus
A glance into the transitional world of the late Renaissance, expertly rendered.
Jazz ‘n’ Spirit – Secundo – Berthold Records/Audiomax
A German jazz trio doing arrangements of early music chorales and songs.
PHILIPP SCHONDORFF: 5 choral works; PHILLIPPE DE MONTE: 3 choral works – Cinquecento – Hyperion
Two more composers from the Renaissance well worth their salt.
Editorial for January 2012
To be one of the 12 AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who will receive the 4-CD “Sacred Music in the Renaissance” Vol. 3 boxed set from Gimell Records, you will only need to register this month using our simple non-intrusive email-secure form. These recordings from the famed Tallis Scholars won universal critical acclaim when they were first released. Both masterworks […]
OTTORINO RESPIGHI: Trittico Botticelliano; Three Corali; The Pines of Rome – Beethoven Orchester Bonn/ Stefan Blunier – MD&G Live
The first SACD discing of the evocative chamber orchestra work based on three Botticelli paintings.
“Sacred Music in the Renaissance, Vol. 1: The Tallis Scholars Finest Recordings, 1980–1989” – The Tallis Scholars /Peter Phillips – Gimell (4 CDs)
A great bargain and just about the best way I know to sample the rich legacy of Renaissance sacred music.
* Borgia Dynasty – Church and Power in the Renaissance – Soloists/La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall – Alix Vox (3 discs & book)
********* MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH *********
Who would guess that a musical chronicle of the Borgia family could be so rewarding?
“Via Crucis: Rappresentazione della gloriosa Passione di Cristo” = Nuria Rial, soprano / Phillippe Jaroussky, countertenor / Fulvio Bettini, baritone / Vincenzo Capezzuto, Neapolitan tenor / Barbara Furtuna / L’Arpeggiata / Christina Pluhar – Virgin
A steady diet of Pluhar/L’Arpeggiata is not in my future, but occasional grazing is definitely indicated.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
