As Bill explains: “I’ve spent my life as a classical musician devoted to the great body of standard repertoire, which began about 1685 with the birth of Bach and Handel and continued though Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven on to the present. I loved that music as a youngster and I still do, but there are occasions, especially when I’m least expecting it, when music composed roughly between 1550 and 1650 will take my breath away. ‘You know,’ I murmur to myself, ‘music really never got any better than this.’” Madrigalists and other Italian composers, giants like Palestrina, the Gabrielis, and Orlando di Lasso. We will be listening to Renaissance composers from France, Spain, Germany, and England.
The Sweet Spot
Playlist
Episode 1
Byrd, William: “A Gigg”
Andrew Lawrence-King
His Majesty’s Harper
DHM 05472 77504 2
0:43
Gabrieli Giovanni: Canzon Septimi Toni No. 2
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Chicago Brass Ensemble
The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
Sony Classical MHK 62353
2:52
des Prez, Josquin: Nunc Dimittis
Timothy Brown: Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Illumina
Collegium COLCD 125
6:26
des Prez, Josquin: Missa L’homme armé: Kyrie
The Tallis Scholars
The Tallis Scholars sing Josquin
Gimell 206
5:31
Cornysh, William: “Ah, Robin”
Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort
50 Years of the Deller Consort
Vanguard Classics 99220
2:25
Cornysh, William: “Ave Maria Mater Dei”
Andrew Carwood: The Cardinall’s Musick
Cornysh: Latin Church music
ASV GAU 164
2:56
Henry VIII: “Tandernaken”
Folger Consort
Playing with Fire
Bard BDCD 9510
1:49
Tallis, Thomas: “When Jesus Wept”
The Sixteen – Harry Christophers
The Deer’s Cry
Coro 16140
2:38
Tallis, Thomas: “Why Fum’th in Fight”
Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus/Robert Spano
Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia/ Symphony No.5
Spano/ Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus
Telarc 80676
0:55
Williams, Vaughan: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Robert Spano
Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia/ Symphony No.5
Spano/ Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus
Telarc 80676
16:25
Byrd, William: “Ye sacred muses
Wenzinger Consort of Viols/August Wenzinger, Alfred Deller
Byrd and His Age
Vanguard Classics OVC 8101
3:51
Byrd, William: “Coranto” “A Gigg”
Andrew Lawrence-King
His Majesty’s Harper
DHM 05472 77504 2
1:03
Episode 2
Byrd, William: Sellinger’s Round
Glenn Gould, piano
The Glenn Gould Edition: Byrd – Gibbons – Sweelinck
Sony Classical SMK 52589
5:47
Byrd, William: Miserere Mihi Domine, Laetentur Coeli
The Sixteen/Harry Christophers
The Deer’s Cry
Coro 16140
5:41
Byrd, William: “Ave Verum Corpus”
The Cambridge Singers/John Rutter
Faire in the Heaven
Collegium Colcd 107
3:44
Byrd, William: “Miserere Mihi Domine” (excerpt)
The Sixteen/Harry Christophers
The Deer’s Cry
Coro 16140
:50
Gibbons, Orlando: The Italian Ground
Glenn Gould, piano
The Glenn Gould Edition: Byrd – Gibbons – Sweelinck
Sony Classical SMK 52589
1:58
Weelkes, Thomas: “In Pride of May”
Eastman Brass Quintet
Renaissance Brass Music
Vox Allegretto ACD 8154
2:02
Dowland, John: “Lachrimæ Antiquæ”
John Holloway, Monika Baer, Renate Steinmann
Pavans and Fantasies from The Age of Dowland
ECM Records 2189
4:16
Gibbons, Orlando: “Hosanna to the Son of David,” “O Clap Your Hands”
John Rutter: The Cambridge Singers
Faire is the Heaven
Collegium Colcd 107
7:14
di Lassos, Orlando: Magnificat, “Anima Mea Dominum”
Capella Antiqua München, Niederaltaicher Scholaren/Konrad Ruhland
Te Deum Laudamus – Capella Antiqua Munchen –
Niederaltaicher Scholaren – Ruhland
Sony Classical SBK 60096
6:40
di Lasso, Orlando: “Pavan on Susanna un jour”
Musique of Violenze – Dances, Fantasias and Popular Tunes for Queen Elizabeth’s Violin Band
The Parley of Instruments
Hyperion 66929
2:52
Anonymous: Motetti, Op. 2: Motetti con le litanie della Beata Vergine, Op. 10: Ave Regina
Sacri concerti: Gaudete gaudio magno
Cappella Artemisia – Candace Smith
Rosa Mistica – Musiche delle monache lombarde del Seicento
Tactus TC 600003
4:48
MARINI, Biaggio: Balletto Quarto Allemano; Curiose & Moderne Inventioni
Andrew Manze, violin
Portrait
Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907278
1:03
Anonymous: Sacri concerti: “Gaudete gaudio magno “(excerpt)
Cappella Artemisia/Candace Smith
Rosa Mistica – Musiche delle monache lombarde del Seicento
Tactus TC 600003
1:32
Episode 3
di Lassos, Orlando: “Justorum Animae”
The Cambridge Singers/John Rutter
Lighten our Darkness
Collegium COLCD 131
3:11
Susato, Tielman: The Danseyre
I.Ronde “Pour Quoy”
II.“Bergerette “Sans Roch”;
III. Reprise “Il Estoit Une Filette”
IV. Fanfare After “La Morisque”
New London Consort
Susato: Dances
L’oiseau Lyre 436 131 2
9:40
de Victoria, Tomás Luis: “Salve Regina”
The Cambridge Singers/John Rutter
Lighten our Darkness
Collegium COLCD 131
10:38
Narváez, Luis De: Fantasía Del Cuarto Tono
Piffaro Los Ministriles – Spanish Renaissance Wind Music
Los Ministriles
Archiv 453 441 2
1:49
Luis De Victoria, Tomás: “Alma Redemptoris Mater”
The Cambridge Singers/John Rutter
Lighten our Darkness
Collegium COLCD 131
6:57
Del Encina, Juan: “Si Habrá En Este Baldrés?”
Piffaro Los Ministriles – Spanish Renaissance Wind Music
Los Ministriles
Archiv 453 441 2
3:25
de la Torre, Francesco: “La Spagna 1”
Folger Consort
Playing with Fire
Bard BDCD 9510
0:59
Turini, Francesco: Sonata À 3
Ensemble Sonnerie/Huggert, violin
Sonatas
Virgin Veritas 87002
11:15
Episode 4
Viadana, Lodovico: Sinfonia Musicali A 8, Op. 18 – 12. “La Bergamasca”
London Brass
Gabrieli in Venice
Teldec 4509 90856
3:02
Uccellini, Marco: Sonata over Toccata V, Op. VI “Detta La Laura rilucente”
Andrew Manze, violin
Portrait
Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907278
7:00
Gesualdo, Carlo: “Ardita Zanzaretta”
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
Gesualdo: Madrigals
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901268
3:05
Gesualdo, Carlo: “Se La Mia Morte Brami.”
“Luci Serene E Chiare”
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
Gesualdo: Madrigals
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901268
6:19
Marini, Biagio: Sinfonia Terzo Tuono.
Curiose and Moderne Inventioni
A Manze, violin
Portrait
Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907278
2:04
Marini, Biagio: Canzon 3
London Brass
Gabrieli in Venice
Teldec 4509 90856
2:14
MARINI, Biagio: Balletto Quarto Allemano
Curiose and Moderne Inventioni
A Manze, violin
Portrait
Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907278
1:03
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi: Missa Viri Galilaei
I. Kyrie
II. Gloria
Viri Galilaei
Ensemble Vocal Européen/ Philippe Herreweghe
Palestrina/ Missa Viri Galilaei/ Herreweghe
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901388
15:33
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz: Violin Sonata in A,
“Representatio Avium”
III. Cuckoo
IV. Frog
V. Cock & Hen
VI. Quail
Romanesca, Andrew Manze, violin; Nigel North, theorbo; John Toll, organ and harpsichord
Biber – Violin Sonatas
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907134.35
3:38
Ignaz Franz Biber, Heinrich: Missa Bruxellensis – I. Kyrie (Biber)
Montserrat Figueras; Jordi Savall: Hespèrion XX
La Capella Reial De Catalunya
Biber – Missa Bruxellensis
Alia Vox 9808
5:02
Episode 5
Gabrieli, Giovanni: Canzon Duodecimi Toni A 10
London Brass
Gabrieli in Venice
Teldec 4509 90856
4:56
Gabrieli, Giovanni: Sonata Pian’ E Forte
London Brass
Gabrieli in Venice
Teldec 4509 90856
4:49
Schütz, Heinrich: Domini est Terra, SWV 476
Cantus Cölln Schola, Cantorum Basiliensis
Century Classics IV: 1600-1700
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi DHM 05472 77603 2
7:07
Monteverdi, Claudio: Vespers of 1610:
“Deus in Adiutorium meum Intende,”
“Dixit Dominus, Laudate Pueri,”
“Sonata Sopra Santa Maria,”
“Ave Maris Stella, Lauda Jerusalem”
The Sixteen/Harry Christophers
Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
Coro 16126
33:30
