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    The King's Noyse - Stravaganze: 17th Century Italian Songs and Dances (1995)

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    The King's Noyse - Stravaganze: 17th Century Italian Songs and Dances (1995)

    Stravaganze: 17th Century Italian Songs and Dances (1995)
    The King's Noyse; David Douglas, director & violin; Andrew Lawrence-King, harp

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 326 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 191 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907159 | Time: 01:18:34

    The King's Noyse are a terrific ensemble who have made a lot of very good discs indeed over the years. This is among them. It is billed as a disc from 1995 of dance music and song from Italy between about 1580 and 1650, which though strictly accurate, may be a little misleading. Lively dance rhythms are certainly there, but a good deal of the disc is contemplative and sometimes rather melancholy in feel. There are single works by both Monteverdi and Gesualdo but the other works are largely by much more obscure composers, and although I know a little of some like Rovetta and Castello, most were completely new to me. I always like to be introduced to new composers, and the music is very fine throughout the disc.

    Paul Hillier, Andrew Lawrence-King - Chansons de Trouvères (1996)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Paul Hillier, Andrew Lawrence-King - Chansons de Trouvères (1996)

    Paul Hillier, Andrew Lawrence-King - Chansons de Trouvères (1996)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 412 Mb | Total time: 69:40 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907184 | Recorded: 1995

    The repertoire of trouvere songs is one “we are only now beginning to explore” writes Margaret Switten. I’m not sure that John Stevens or Hendrik van der Werf would agree with this, but it is certainly a claim that whets the appetite. And here we have an enlightened and well-chosen selection, sensitively presented and delightfully sung by Paul Hillier with insight and feeling. The main object of the poets’ attention is fin’amor, but other themes, including the return of spring (Volez vous que je vous chant and En mai, quant li rossignolez), make their joyful appearance, and there is one piece in a completely different vein, a serious piece of religious polemics: Deus est ensi conme li pellicanz.

    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Gautier de Coincy: Miracles of Notre-Dame (2003)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Gautier de Coincy: Miracles of Notre-Dame (2003)

    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Gautier de Coincy: Miracles of Notre-Dame (2003)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 359 Mb | Total time: 70:07 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907317 | Recorded: 1999

    Thirteenth-century troubador Gautier de Coincy's blend of mystical religious poetry and the popular tunes to which he set his poems proves irresistible, especially in the Harp Consort's lively renditions. Given the nature of the material, the sheer variety of rhythms, sounds, and colors on this disc is astounding; the vocal soloists are all excellent, the small chorus adept, captivating when it sings in the gutsy peasant style at appropriate moments. Eight purely instrumental numbers are sprinkled throughout the 20 tracks, each a gem, full of colorful effects from the rich-sounding shawm and other period instruments like bagpipe, vielle, and a variety of percussion instruments that thump and shimmer in ways that make you want to dance.

    The King's Singers, Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp Consort - Fire-Water: The Spirit Of Renaissance Spain (2000)

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    The King's Singers, Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp Consort - Fire-Water: The Spirit Of Renaissance Spain (2000)

    The King's Singers, Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp Consort - Fire-Water: The Spirit Of Renaissance Spain (2000)
    EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:10:53 | 09026 63519 2 MB
    Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: RCA Red Seal | Catalog: 323

    Other recent King's Singers' recordings on this label have reaffirmed the ensemble's credentials as compelling advocates of contemporary music. Here, only the most hardhearted of early music purists could fail to find the infectious cocktail of popular and religious Spanish music–largely 16th century–going to their heads, even if the King's Singers add the occasional theatrical embellishment. The music (much of it by "Anon") is organized into five categories, among them "fire" and "water" (with the alternative implications of ardor and alcohol).

    Ellen Hargis, Paul O'Dette, Andrew Lawrence-King, Hille Perl - Il Zazzerino: Music of Jacopo Peri (1999)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Ellen Hargis, Paul O'Dette, Andrew Lawrence-King, Hille Perl - Il Zazzerino: Music of Jacopo Peri (1999)

    Ellen Hargis, Paul O'Dette, Andrew Lawrence-King, Hille Perl - Il Zazzerino: Music of Jacopo Peri (1999)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 73:31 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMU907234 | Recorded: 1998

    Jacopo Peri, Medici court musician and famed tenor, was among the earliest of opera composers. “Il Zazzerino” (the blond one) was also a pioneer in the popularization of the “new style” solo song, and with the 1609 publication of his collection La varie musiche he demonstrated his versatility as a composer, creating new music for a new age.

    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Les Travailleurs de la Mer (2004)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Les Travailleurs de la Mer (2004)

    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Les Travailleurs de la Mer (2004)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 443 Mb | Total time: 76:24 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907330 | Recorded: 2003

    The Baltimore Consort used to do programs similar to this one, but The Harp Consort takes the production values and vocal artistry to an even higher level. From the opening, a highly rhythmic, sensuously melodic traditional Breton number, you're drawn into a world of earthy, folk-based music that's filled out with the colors of period instruments and brought to life by the expressive voices of singers who allow the flow and pulse of the language to shape phrases and create natural accents and inflection. The result is affecting, engrossing performances that convey what we can only surmise is a reasonably accurate realization of these ancient and justifiably enduring tunes.

    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)

    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 71:12 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | 88883754552 | Recorded: 1999

    The music of Shakespeare's England - ballad tunes, country dances and elegant consorts - seems at first to be quintessentially English. Yet many of these tunes, as popular dances or in the high-art variations of division music, were inspired by Celtic and Spanish styles. In variations, from 17th-century manuscripts and in improvised divisions, 'gypsy' ballads are metamorphosed into exquisite consort music.

    David Skinner, The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge - Jheronimus Vinders: Missa Fors Seulement & Secular Songs (2023)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    David Skinner, The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge - Jheronimus Vinders: Missa Fors Seulement & Secular Songs (2023)

    David Skinner, The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge - Jheronimus Vinders: Missa Fors Seulement & Secular Songs (2023)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 425 Mb | Total time: 01:41:11 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Inventa Records | # INV1012 | Recorded: 2022

    Jheronimus Vinders (fl.1525/6) is best known for the oft-recorded lament on the death of Josquin Desprez (d.1521), O mors inevitabilis, which has led many to presume that he was a disciple or even a pupil of the great master.

    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort, Clara Sanabras, Paul Hillier - Les Travailleurs de la mer (2006)

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    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort, Clara Sanabras, Paul Hillier - Les Travailleurs de la mer (2006)

    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort, Clara Sanabras, Paul Hillier - Les Travailleurs de la mer (2006)
    WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 355 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 197 MB | 01:16:14
    Genre: Classical, World, Celtic | Label: Harmonia Mundi

    This is an album of songs from Guernsey, an island off Cornwall but much closer to Normandy, and the music is as odd and captivating as the particular brand of French in which it is sung. The music, even to a not-particularly-sophisticated ear, seems a combination of Celtic twang and French charm, with unexpected springs of rhythm amidst melodies that are as graceful as swans.

    David Skinner, Alamire, Andrew Lawrence-King - Josquin Desprez: Missa D’ung aultre amer, Motets & Chansons (2007)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    David Skinner, Alamire, Andrew Lawrence-King - Josquin Desprez: Missa D’ung aultre amer, Motets & Chansons (2007)

    David Skinner, Alamire, Andrew Lawrence-King - Josquin Desprez: Missa D’ung aultre amer, Motets & Chansons (2007)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 323 Mb | Total time: 68:27 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Obsidian Records | # CD701 | Recorded: 2007

    Josquin Desprez is widely recognized as the greatest of the Renaissance master musicians. He set the standard for the various compositional techniques borrowed and utilized by most composers of his generation and beyond, and became an iconic figure whose art captivated musicians and scholars for centuries. This recording centres around some of Josquin’s earliest works, and, in particular, his fascination with the D’ung aultre amer rondeau composed by his teacher Johannes Ockeghem. Also included are some of his most popular motets and chansons performed here by a solo voice (Clare Wilkinson) with renaissance harp (Andrew Lawrence-King).

    Nigel Rogers, Paul O'Dette, Andrew Lawrence-King - Sigismondo D'India: Lamento d'Orfeo (2012)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Nigel Rogers, Paul O'Dette, Andrew Lawrence-King - Sigismondo D'India: Lamento d'Orfeo (2012)

    Nigel Rogers, Paul O'Dette, Andrew Lawrence-King - Sigismondo D'India: Lamento d'Orfeo (2012)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 273 Mb | Total time: 69:44 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 6025182 | Recorded: 1990

    In the preface to his Musiche da cantar solo of 1609, Sigismondo d'India noted with endearing frankness that in the solo vocal music of his time there was a danger of every piece sounding the same. His own works, however, he sought to rescue from this mire of monotony by means of ''uncommon intervals'' which would have ''a greater emotional force than if they had been written in a uniform way with conventional progressions''. Anyone who would suspect this disc, offering 19 monodies for tenor and continuo, of sameness is hereby advised to believe d'India rather than initial instinct.

    Gérard Lesne, Nancy Hadden, Circa 1500 - O Lusitano: Portuguese vilancetes, cantigas and romances (1992)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Gérard Lesne, Nancy Hadden, Circa 1500  - O Lusitano: Portuguese vilancetes, cantigas and romances (1992)

    Gérard Lesne, Nancy Hadden, Circa 1500 - O Lusitano: Portuguese vilancetes, cantigas and romances (1992)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 64:45 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 0777 7590712 4 | Recorded: 1989

    This performance can be labeled Portuguese only loosely, since many of the pieces are sung in Spanish, or taken from Spanish manuscripts, or more properly Galician than Lusitanian. But hey! Who cares? Really artful recordings of any Iberian music of the 'Golden Age' are not sprouting from the cork trees even today. Male alto Gerard Lesne has seldom recorded pre-Baroque chansons, and it's a thrill to hear what he can do with them. Track 9, for instance, the Latin cantiga "Clamabat autem mulier" by Mudarra, takes Lesne from his usual alto register down seamlessly into his tenor chest voice. Wow! Not every counter-tenor can do that and still sound musical!

    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Henry Purcell: Musick's Hand-Maid (1995)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Henry Purcell: Musick's Hand-Maid (1995)

    Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Henry Purcell: Musick's Hand-Maid (1995)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 263 Mb | Total time: 75:29 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Auvidis Astrée | # E 8564 | Recorded: 1995

    As England's greatest composer of the Baroque, Henry Purcell was dubbed the "Orpheus Britannicus" for his ability to combine pungent English counterpoint with expressive, flexible, and dramatic word settings. While he did write instrumental music, including the important viol fantasias, the vast majority of his output was in the vocal/choral realm. His only opera, Dido and Aeneas, divulged his sheer mastery in the handling of the work's vast expressive canvas, which included lively dance numbers, passionate arias and rollicking choruses. Purcell also wrote much incidental music for stage productions, including that for Dryden's King Arthur. His church music includes many anthems, devotional songs, and other sacred works, but few items for Anglican services.

    Jordi Savall - Diego Ortiz: Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas, 1553 (1990)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Jordi Savall - Diego Ortiz: Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas, 1553 (1990)

    Jordi Savall, Ton Koopman, Andrew Lawrence-King, Lorenz Duftschmid, Rolf Lislevand, Paolo Pandolfo - Diego Ortiz: Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas, 1553 (1990)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 246 Mb | Total time: 49:35 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Auvidis / Astrée | # E 8717 | Recorded: 1989

    On 10th December, 1553, at one of the highpoints in the Golden Age of Spanish music, there appeared in Rome the TRATTADO DE GLOSAS SOBRE CLAUSULAS Y OTROS GENEROS DE PUNTOS EN LA MUSICA DE VIOLONES NUEVAMENTE PUESTOS EN LUZ by Diego Ortiz, who was also known under the name “el Toledano”. An inevitable reference point for the study of instrumental performance practice in the 16th century, this work is of exceptional interest, both for its purely historical significance and for its artistic value, since it contains the finest examples of the known repertoire for viola da gamba (vihuela de arco or violone) and harpsichord in the Renaissance period.

    Chanterelle Ensemble - Antonio and Giovanni Bononcini: Sonatas and Cantatas (2003)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Chanterelle Ensemble - Antonio and Giovanni Bononcini: Sonatas and Cantatas (2003)

    Chanterelle Ensemble - Antonio and Giovanni Bononcini: Sonatas and Cantatas (2003)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 329 Mb | Total time: 62:37 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Centaur | # CRC 2630 | Recorded: 2002

    Giovanni went on to become a big star in London writing Italian operas but he and his younger brother came from Bologna, known for its famous cellist-composers Vitali, Jacchini and Domenico Gabrieli. These mostly early pieces for cello or gamba demonstrate their aptitude for these instruments while the aria Impar was one of the standard audition pieces of every aspiring soprano during the early 1700s.