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A Dutch Christmas
EM/NY’s latest release, produced in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in tandem with the exhibition “The Age of Rembrandt,” is the sixth in a series of holiday compact discs. Once again, Frederick Renz has researched and programmed engaging seasonal music - Cantiones natalitiae (Latin songs) and kerstliedjes (carols) for voices, variations for recorders by Jacob van Eyck and Sweelinck, jaunty dances by Susato and Phalese, as well as rowdy drinken liedeken to ring in the New Year.
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Music of Venice
Instrumental music inspired by Venice’s San Marco (basilica) in the late 16th /early 17th centuries – festive celebratory works for sackbuts, cornettos, theorbos, Italian double harp, guitar, bagpipes, shawm and a band violins – includes polychoral works by Giovanni Gabrieli and Ludovico Viadana; toccatas and ritornelli by Claudio Monteverdi and Cesare Bendinelli, dances by Giorgio Mainerio, Joan Dalza, Lorenzo Allegri and Gasparo Zanetti; sonatas by Biagio Marini, and Cessario Gussago; canzonas by Tarquinio Merula, Pietro Lappi; and others. The repertoire chosen for this album is of the opulent “Venetian School” with original editions printed in Venice.
A Bohemian Christmas
Medieval motets honoring Bohemia's "Good King Wenceslas" (St. Vaclave) and Poland's St. Stansilaus. "Carols" from the time of patriot Jan Hus, early polyphony from the Codex "Specialnik" celebrating the Nativity. Plus, the only extant Czech medieval dance, and the "Messe de Notre Dame" by Guillaume de Machaut, celebrated French poet/composer and Secretary to the King of Bohemia. Men's voices and instruments.
A Colonial Christmas
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A Baroque Christmas
"Critic's Choice... a delectable mix... variegated adventures... polish, rusticity and grandeur of spirit... irresistible... can't get enough... I'm addicted..." - James R. Oestreich, The New York Times, December 15, 2002
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A Renaissance Christmas
Over 10,000 sold!
"If you're looking for a beautiful, peaceful collection of music to add to your holiday collection, this is it." Amazon.com 5-Star rating!
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A Medieval Christmas
"an absorbing hour of listening and a very attractive alternative soundtrack for the holiday season" - Early Music America
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Music of Medieval Love
Women as Performers, Subjects & Composers in the Middle Ages
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Troped Apostolic Mass for Saint Martial
by Adémar de Chabannes, 989 - 1034
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