Orpheus' Noble Strings
Dowland, Pilkington, Hume, Corkine, Danyel, Ferrab
Orpheus and his lyre: how to better picture the power of music? Orpheus could move stones to tears, he even moved to pity the gates of death. Music overturns the world, this the composers of the English Renaissance knew very well. Even more, music is the soul of the world, a unifying force.
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Marin Marais, Sainte Colombe, Robert de Visée
The viola da gamba and the theorbo are string nobility: an artistic duo embodying the height of grandeur and sophistication. Indeed, the sense of intimacy that can arise between the two in French baroque repertoire provided the impetus for this recording. Though different in appearance and technique —one is bowed, the other plucked — both instruments have more in common than might at first seem.
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Mr. Demachy - Pièces de violle en musique et en tablature
Mr. Demachy
Romina Lischka - basse de viole
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Gottes Zeit is die allerbeste Zeit - Meine Freundin, du bist schön
Johann Sebastian & Johann Christoph Bach
with BachPlus
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The Allegory of Desire - The Song of Songs in Western and Oriental traditions
with Zefiro Torna, Ghalia Benali, Vocalconsort Berlin (+)
Carmina Latina
with Ensemble Clematis, Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Choeur de Chambre de Namur (+)
Le Maitre de Fricassée - Secular Music of Jean Japart
Jean Japart
Les Flamboyants - Michael Form
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Ein frölich Wesen - Secular and Textless Music by Heinrich Isaac
Heinrich Isaac
Les Flamboyants - Michael Form
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Auf Wiener Art - Music from the Habsburg Imperial Court
F. Cavalli, Leopold I, A. Sartorio, J. H. Schmelze
Le Jardin Secret
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The Pleasing Slumber
John Jenkins
Philippe Pierlot, Sophie Gent, Romina Lischka, François Guerrier
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Musique pour Mazarin! - Qui a le coeur a tout
Rossi, Charpentier, Carissimi, Lully, Orazio Michi
Le Jardin Secret
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