This CD illustrates the music contained within the famous medieval manuscript from the Abbey of Montserrat: the Llibre Vermell
This album turns its attentions to the works of two of the greatest instrumentalists of Monterverdi's circle: Biagio Marini and Dario Castello. Both were in service at the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, the first as a violinist and the second as...
It is in dance that we can find the extremely rare written descriptions of medieval instrumental music that was composed before the appearance of polyphony. The instrumentalists of Millenarium have researched these texts and, using their finds as an...
Caccini's lyricism, emotion, and skilled vocal writing show clearly that his L'Euridice is the true forerunner of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. Ricercar now proudly presents this world premiere recording of Caccini's masterpiece on CD!
This recording, whose title is here embodied in an instrumental version by Georg Böhm of the renowned chorale Vater unser, brings together sacred works and Lutheran cantatas for the alto voice. The concertante role allotted to the instruments is...
