Discover Early Music

Discover Early Music

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
  1. Antiphonae post Evangelium
  2. Adorabo, alleluia
  3. Ordo Virtutum, liturgical drama: Procession
  4. Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): Viderunt omnes... (2-part organum)
  5. Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): ...fines terre salutare dei nostri jubilate deo omnis terra (plainchant)
  6. Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): Notum fecit...(2-part organum)
  7. Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): ...Dominus...
  8. Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): ...salutare suum ante conspectum gentium revelavit...
  9. Viderunt omnes, 2 part organum (attrib. to Leonin): ...justitiam suam (plainchant)
  10. Gaudete Christus est natus (Piae Cantiones 1582)
  11. Work(s): [Unspecified] Cantiga de Santa Maria
  12. Exiit dilucolo rustica puella, CB 90
  13. Humils, forfaitz, repres e penedens
  14. Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys, rondeau for 3 voices
  15. Non avr? mai piet?, ballata for 3 voices, S. 144
  16. Non avr? mai piet?, ballata for 3 voices, S. 144
  17. Veni Sancte Spiritus, isorhythmic motet for 4 voices, MB 32
  18. D'un aultre amer, chanson for 3 voices
  19. Alleluia, Verbum caro factum est, motet for 4 voices
  20. El grillo, song for 4 parts
  21. El grillo, song for 4 parts
  22. Missa 'La Sol Fa Re Mi', for 4 parts: Kyrie
  23. R?veillez vous, cueurs endormis, chanson for 4 voices ('Le chant des oiseaux'), M. 2/67
  24. Passe & Medio/Den iersten gaillarde
  25. Work(s): Den III ronde - Den VI ronde - Les quatres branles
  26. Work(s): Gaillarde I - II - III
Music CD 2
  1. In Nomine, for 4 parts (arrangements exist for consort & for keyboard)
  2. In Nomine a 5 ('Crye')
  3. Spem in Alium (also set as 'Sing and glorify'), motet for 40 voices, P. 299
  4. Mass for 4 Voices (SATB): Sanctus
  5. Psalm 130: Du fond de ma pens?e
  6. The King of Denmarks Galliard, for 5 viols/violins & lute (from 'Lachrimae')
  7. Flow, my tears, fall from your springs, for 2 voices & lute (Second Book of Songs)
  8. Greiner, Zancker, Schn?pffitzer, song for 4 voices
  9. Stat ein meskin, chanson for 4 voices (also attrib. Isaac)
  10. Work(s): [Unspecified] Tiento for vihuela
  11. Tribulationem et dolorem inveni, motet for 5 voices, W. 8/57
  12. Lagrime di S Pietro (Tansillo), madrigal for 7 voices, H. xx: Il Magnanimo Pietro
  13. Missa Susanne un jour, for 5 voices, H. iv/121: Kyrie
  14. Beau le crystal, chanson for 4 voices, B. xi/57 (S. xii/94)
  15. O Magnum Mysterium, motet for 4 voices
  16. 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)

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