Since you are interested in Missa de beata virgine / Ave virgo gloriosa / Ave, ancilla Trinitatis, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
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 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
On the Way to Bethlehem: Music of the Medieval Pilgrim Oni Wytars Ensemble / Unicorn Ensemble [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] This recording offers a musical journey from England, the most western country and launching point of the first Crusade, through France, Germany, Eastern Europe, as far east as Syria. |
WHITE / TALLIS / PALESTRINA / LASSUS / de BRITO
Lamentations Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly, conductor [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "On the bargain Naxos label come nearly 70 minutes of sublime polyphony, beautifully sung by the fresh-toned Oxford Camerata under Jeremy Summerly. The recorded sound is vividly beautiful within an ideal ambience." - Rosette (Highest Rating) -... |
ADRIANO BANCHIERI
Il Zabaione Musicale (Musical Entertainments) Radio Svizzera Italiana Choir; Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca; Diego Fasolis, conductor [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "The style of interpretation might fairly be described as all out" - Fanfare |
FRESCOBALDI
Fantasias Book 1: Ricercari and Canzoni Sergio Vartolo (Harpsichord & Organ) [ Naxos Early Music / 2 CD - released 8/Mar/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (pre 1700) - "I greatly enjoyed the organ Canzoni, simple sectional pieces capitalising on a kaleidoscope of timbres - including a startling flock of starlings - believe me!" --BBC Music... |
THOMAS CAMPION
Lute Songs Steven Rickards (counter-tenor) Dorothy Linell (lute) [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (pre 1700) - "The playing over all has a kind of electricity that suggest the drama of the works from which the dances are drawn." - New York Times (Allan Kozinn), April 7, 2000 |
CLEMENTI
Early Piano Sonatas Volume 2 Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2007 ] "Thoroughly engaging performances, on a fine instrument, of some of Clementi’s excellent sonatas, as musically rewarding as they are historically important" (MusicWeb Aug 2007) |