Since you are interested in On the Way to Bethlehem: Music of the Medieval Pilgrim, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CAVALIERI
Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo Cappella Musicale di San Petronio di Bologna / Sergio Vartolo [ Naxos Early Music / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] The Rappresentatione offers the first example of a score published with a figured bass, a bass line with numbers and other symbols to indicate the chord to be used by the addition of notes above. The influence of Platonic and Aristotelian theories of... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (complete opera) Alessandro Carmignani / Marinella Pennicchi / Rosita Frisani / Cappella Musicale di San Petronio di Bologna / Sergio Vartolo [ Naxos Early Music / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "Carmignani has an expressive tenor voice...Pennicchi is lovely as Euridice. The singers are excellent and integrated into a carefully prepared ensemble...You will not do much better at triple the price" - Fanfare |
CARISSIMI
Mass for Three Voices / Six Motets Consortium Carissimi, Vittorio Zanon [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 15/May/2002 ] Carissimi was one of the early masters of the oratorio |
Consortium Carissimi, Vittorio Zanon
Carissimi - Ten Motets [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 15/May/2002 ] These motets are among the jewels of 17th-Century Italian-Church music |
MONTEVERDI
Madrigals, Book 3 (Il Terzo Libro de' Madrigali, 1592) Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini, conductor [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Few symphonies since Beethoven's Fifth have attracted the degree of extra-musical speculation accorded Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. Although ideas for a Seventh Symphony had begun coming to mind the previous year, the work that emerged has... |
Oni Wytars / Unicorn Ensemble
Carmina Burana: Medieval Poems and Songs [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 11/May/2004 ] "Everything is played with a life and energy that left me dancing around the room by disc's end." (MusicWeb) |
ANTOINE BRUMEL
Missa de beata virgine / Ave virgo gloriosa / Ave, ancilla Trinitatis Speculum Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] Antoine Brumel was among the most distinguished composers of his time, the first great French rather than Flemish Renaissance composer. He served as master of choristers at Notre Dame in Paris and then was employed at the d'Este court in Ferrara,... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The World of Early Music :-From the Middle Ages to the Dawn of Enlightenment Various Artists [ Naxos Early Music / 2 CD - released 28/Sep/2007 ] Recent years have brought a vast expansion in our understanding and knowledge of music of earlier periods. There has been investigation into the repertoire and techniques of other ages, coupled with a movement that has favoured the use of instruments... |