The Early Music Club (EMC)

[Que]

To my eternal shame I have to admit that I do not like troubadour songs, drinking songs and music like that.....

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[San Antone]

To my eternal shame I have to admit that I do not like troubadour songs, drinking songs and music like that.....

Q

I discovered the variety of troubadour and trouvere songs when studying the music of Machaut.  Some good stuff by the Folger Consort but also this more recent recording

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[aligreto]

Good stuff; the music ofthe troubadours and trouveres is some of my favorite.  Ensemble Unicorn has a box too.

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I like Ensemble Unicorn and I actually have four of the individual CDs in that box set 

[aligreto]

To my eternal shame I have to admit that I do not like troubadour songs, drinking songs and music like that.....

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Perhaps like the beverages that they accompany, the songs are an acquired taste 

[San Antone]

Perhaps like the beverages that they accompany, the songs are an acquired taste 

The music of the troubadours and trouveres falls into two broad categories: 1) the dance-like and more raucous music and 2) the plaintiff love songs.  I don't listen to the former hardly at all but find much to enjoy in the latter.

[kishnevi]

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/arts_culture/2015/07/now_playing_harpsichord_of_columbus_era_sounds_again

[aligreto]

Early Music late at night....





I am partial to a consort of viols.

[aligreto]

[aligreto]

Beautiful music beautifully sung by a well balanced and recorded ensemble.

[San Antone]

Don't know if this has been mentioned here -

The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry (Medieval Gardens in Music)
- Orlando Consort

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I like it a lot.

[Mookalafalas]

A co-worker has this.  I can't find any information about it.  Does anyone know anything about it? It's an 8 disc set, released in 2013.

[Moonfish]

A co-worker has this.  I can't find any information about it.  Does anyone know anything about it? It's an 8 disc set, released in 2013.

Al!!!!   

Ricercar has great online information: Here is the main page for the set

This is the tracklisting for the set with lots of specifics (pdf).

[aligreto]

This is a compilation CD which ultimately led me to explore the different composers contained therein. The music is wonderful, the performances are terrific and the sound world is enchanting. It is a great introduction to Early Music and a strong recommendation even simply as a good general listen.

[aligreto]

Lassus: Missa Osculetur....

[Que]

Lassus: Missa Osculetur....

I thought the name of the mass looked unfamiliar, and indeed I seem to have no recording of it....
Would the Tallis be the only group to have recorded it to date?

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[The new erato]

In 40 years of following this repertoire, i cannot remember seeing another version.

Of all great composers (at least as regarded in the standard texts, Lassus and Palestrina are the most seriously underrecorded.)

[Que]

In 40 years of following this repertoire, i cannot remember seeing another version.

Of all great composers (at least as regarded in the standard texts, Lassus and Palestrina are the most seriously underrecorded.)

I agree.  Though the situation in Lassus in steadily improving - I have been able to gather quite a nice Lassus collection, be it of modest proportions.
Palestrina seems still to be hardly recorded at all.....

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[The new erato]

That is probably true, I have slightly more than a dozen Lassus discs. The Sixteen are doung a Palestrina series, unfortunately they represent a style I don't like too much in this repertoire,

[Jo498]

a quotation from Song of Songs I guess (He shall kiss me...) I do not know the piece.

But how does Renaissance mass nomenclature work? Sometimes they refer to a "popular" tune used somewhere in the mass (like L'homme armé), sometimes some Gregorian tune, sometimes it seems an original title, sometimes a technical hint (Missa mi-mi), sometimes I do not have a clue...

[Que]

That is probably true, I have slightly more than a dozen Lassus discs. The Sixteen are doung a Palestrina series, unfortunately they represent a style I don't like too much in this repertoire,

Agreed again. 

I have to hand it to the Brits, they are alwaysin the forefront when it comes to uncharted territory.
But I wish some continental, preferably Italian, ensembles would do more Palestrina. The ways things are going, it is only a matter of time!