Discover Early Music
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Composer: Alfonso X (el Sabio)Composer: 11th century French Polyphony Anonymous
Composer: Carmina Burana Anonymous
Composer: Antoine Busnois
Composer: William [Composer] Byrd
Composer: Ambrosian Chant
Composer: Gregorian Chant
Composer: John Dowland
Composer: Guillaume Dufay
Composer: John Dunstable
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Composer: Claude Goudimel
Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
Composer: Heinrich Isaac
Composer: Clement Janequin
Composer: Josquin Desprez
Composer: Francesco Landini
Composer: Orlande de Lassus
Composer: Alonso de Mudarra
Composer: Jacob Obrecht
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-11-01
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Antiphonae post Evangelium
- Adorabo, alleluia
- Ordo Virtutum, liturgical drama: Procession
- Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): Viderunt omnes... (2-part organum)
- Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): ...fines terre salutare dei nostri jubilate deo omnis terra (plainchant)
- Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): Notum fecit...(2-part organum)
- Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): ...Dominus...
- Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): ...salutare suum ante conspectum gentium revelavit...
- Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): ...justitiam suam (plainchant)
- Gaudete Christus est natus (Piae Cantiones 1582)
- Work(s): [Unspecified] Cantiga de Santa Maria
- Exiit dilucolo rustica puella, CB 90
- Humils, forfaitz, repres e penedens
- Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys, rondeau for 3 voices
- Non avr? mai piet?, ballata for 3 voices, S. 144
- Non avr? mai piet?, ballata for 3 voices, S. 144
- Veni Sancte Spiritus, isorhythmic motet for 4 voices, MB 32
- D'un aultre amer, chanson for 3 voices
- Alleluia, Verbum caro factum est, motet for 4 voices
- El grillo, song for 4 parts
- El grillo, song for 4 parts
- Missa 'La Sol Fa Re Mi', for 4 parts: Kyrie
- R?veillez vous, cueurs endormis, chanson for 4 voices ('Le chant des oiseaux'), M. 2/67
- Passe & Medio/Den iersten gaillarde
- Work(s): Den III ronde - Den VI ronde - Les quatres branles
- Work(s): Gaillarde I - II - III
- In Nomine, for 4 parts (arrangements exist for consort & for keyboard)
- In Nomine a 5 ('Crye')
- Spem in Alium (also set as 'Sing and glorify'), motet for 40 voices, P. 299
- Mass for 4 Voices (SATB): Sanctus
- Psalm 130: Du fond de ma pens?e
- The King of Denmarks Galliard, for 5 viols/violins & lute (from 'Lachrimae')
- Flow, my tears, fall from your springs, for 2 voices & lute (Second Book of Songs)
- Greiner, Zancker, Schn?pffitzer, song for 4 voices
- Stat ein meskin, chanson for 4 voices (also attrib. Isaac)
- Work(s): [Unspecified] Tiento for vihuela
- Tribulationem et dolorem inveni, motet for 5 voices, W. 8/57
- Lagrime di S Pietro (Tansillo), madrigal for 7 voices, H. xx: Il Magnanimo Pietro
- Missa Susanne un jour, for 5 voices, H. iv/121: Kyrie
- Beau le crystal, chanson for 4 voices, B. xi/57 (S. xii/94)
- O Magnum Mysterium, motet for 4 voices
- Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Kyrie
Music reviews of Discover Early Music
Music Review: Good idea in theory, but...
Rating: 3 Stars
For anyone hoping to discover new types of music, compilation CDs offer an accessible overview from which they can pursue areas which interest them. The project is always a daunting task - how should one go about it and what should be included? Inevitably, the selection of chosen material is determined by the record company's existing catalogue; thus the resulting CD says more about them (here Naxos) than the repertoire itself (here early music). Nevertheless, 'Discover Early Music' is a laudable attempt, attractively packaged and supplemented with a readable booklet.
However, there are some real anomalies here...
1. Why is Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-77), the most important figure of the Ars Nova, unrepresented? Why is the Italian Renaissance madrigal absent? (see below *1). This is all the more difficult to explain given the existence in the Naxos catalogue of exemplary recordings of both of these (see below *2)!!
2. The ordering of material is somewhat illogical - the carol "Gaudete" (c.1582 - here given the evasive attribution "traditional") is followed by a cantiga from Alfonso X of Castile's collection (compiled 1250-80), Dufay (c.1398-1453) is followed by Landini (c.1325-97), Dowland (1563-1626) is followed by Isaac (c.1450-1517)...
3. To illustrate the observation that modern performances of the same piece can vary in ensemble and interpretation, the CD presents Josquin's "El Grillo" (CD1 tracks 15 + 16) and Landini's "Non avra ma'pieta questa mia donna" (CD1 tracks 10 + 11) (p.34), but this is misleading: they come from contrasting versions in separate manuscripts from different decades! The one example here which actually substantiates this point is, oddly enouugh, overlooked (Susato's Gaillarde I, CD1 tracks 19 + 20).
In short, the idea behind the compilation is praiseworthy, but not entirely successful; the more extensive compilation by Harmonia Mundi (albeit at a higher price) is more convincing.
*1 The closest included examples - Josquin's "El Grillo" (CD1 tracks 15 + 16) and Lassus' "Lagrime di San Pietro: I. Il magnanimo Pietro" (CD2 track 12) - being a frottola and spiritual madrigal respectively.
*2 Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame, Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.553833) and Monteverdi: Madrigals Book 1 (1587), Delitiae Musicae/Marco Longhini (Naxos 8.555307)
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Byrd, William
- ( D ) > Dowland, John
- Dufay, Guillaume
- ( G ) > Gesualdo, Carlo
- ( H ) > Hildegard of Bingen
- ( L ) > Lassus, Orlando di(Lasso) > All Works by Lassus
- ( O ) > Obrecht, Jacob
- ( T ) > Tallis, Thomas
- Taverner, John
- Forms & Genres > Rondos
- Historical Periods > Early Music > Sacred & Religious
- Vocal & Song
- General
- Renaissance (c.1450-1600) > Sacred & Religious
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Renaissance (c.1450-1600)
- Oratorios
- Vocal Non-Opera > Chants
- Masses
- Motets
- Oratorios
- Songs & Lieder > Lieder
- Madrigals
- Dance & Electronic > General
- Miscellaneous > General
- Instructional > General
- Dowland, John - Works by Dowland
- Dufay, Guillaume - Works by Dufay
- Obrecht, Jacob - Works by Obrecht
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