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Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Guillaume Dufay: Mass for St. Anthony of Padua (1996)

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Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Guillaume Dufay: Mass for St. Anthony of Padua (1996)

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Guillaume Dufay: Mass for St. Anthony of Padua (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 68:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | 447 772-2 | Recorded: 1995

The works of the 15th-century composer Guillaume Dufay are often considered to be where medieval music ends and Renaissance music begins. Yet Dufay sounds quite different from later, better-known Renaissance composers such as Palestrina, Victoria, and Josquin: Dufay's music is less densely scored, with more stratified voice ranges, very complex rhythms, and a somewhat neutral emotional affect. Pomerium, a New York-based choir with extensive experience in Dufay, presents here one of the composer's largest works: a setting of both the ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, etc.) and the propers (texts specific to the occasion) of the Mass for the feast of St. Anthony of Padua. Pomerium's polished performance makes this a fine addition to the Dufay discography.

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Antoine Busnois: In hydraulis & other works (1994)

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Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Antoine Busnois: In hydraulis & other works (1994)

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Antoine Busnois: In hydraulis & other works (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 72:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dorian Recordings | # DOR-90184 | Recorded: 2013

One of the delights of exploring early music is that there's always some wonderful discovery just around the corner–some composer or work you've never heard of or were afraid to take a chance on last year, but who now compels your attention. And you're pleasantly surprised, as you will be when you discover the works of 15th-century Burgundian composer Busnoys. From the very first minute of his fantastic In hydraulis–a tribute to Ockeghem–you'll realize that here was a composer of considerable talent for part writing, for melody, and for intricate rhythmic structures.

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - A Musical Book of Hours (1998)

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Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - A Musical Book of Hours (1998)

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - A Musical Book of Hours (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 75:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 457 586-2 | Recorded: 1997

This is one of the most beautiful early music discs in the catalog–equally attributable to the music and to the perfectly tuned and blended voices, whose timbres couldn't be more appealing to the ear or more appropriate to the style of the repertoire. The very first track–a charming, gentle, hopeful little piece by Dufay, "Bon jour, bon mois, bon an"–leads us easily into the heart and spirit of this well-conceived program, which seeks to duplicate in music the expressive power and visual beauty of the richly illustrated Books of Hours–lovingly created volumes that were a cherished fixture of religious devotional practice in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Among the composers represented are Dufay, Desprez, Busnoys, Dunstaple, and Ockeghem. Put this at the top of your list.

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Musica Vaticana (1998)

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Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Musica Vaticana (1998)

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Musica Vaticana (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 66:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glissando | # 779 001-2 | Recorded: 1998

A selection of monumental Roman works from the Cappella Sistina music manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana dating from the time of popes Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII (1503-1534). This CD, recorded for Pure Classics/Glissando, was produced to be sold at the exhibition titled "Hochrenaissance im Vatikan (1503-1534). Kunst und Kultur im Rom der Päpste I" shown at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn, Germany, in the year 1998. It is Pomerium's most popular recording. Includes such classic's of Renaissance sacred music as Josquin's Benedicta es, celorum regina and Virgo salutiferi, Mouton's Tua est potentia, Carpentras's Lamentationes Jeremie, and Willaert's Enixa est puerpera.

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Musical games of the Renaissance (2019)

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Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Musical games of the Renaissance (2019)

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Musical games of the Renaissance (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 324 Mb | Total time: 52:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Old Hall | OHR 0004 | Recorded: 2017

Musical Games of the Renaissance: A Century of Musical Ingenuity, 1410-1510,” began as a musical complement to an exhibition of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century hand-painted playing cards mounted at The Met Cloisters in early 2016. On February 21 of that year, Pomerium first presented a public performance at The Cloisters of a program that included all the works recorded here. The performance was in the Fuentideña Chapel, which adjoins the room in which the playing cards were exhibited. The juxtaposition of cards and music made clear that Renaissance society’s fascination with games—well known from fourteenth-, fifteenth-, and sixteenth-century images of people playing cards, dice, and chess—also extended to musical composition. In fact, composers found the musical notation of the time an apt medium in which to engage in musical games involving scales, note values, canons, and symbolism. Musical games entertained and challenged performers, but they could also embed serious hidden meanings.