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Lutz Kirchhof
Lute Music for Witches and Alchemists

Album : Lute Music for Witches and Alchemist
Artist : Lutz Kirchhof
Release date : 2000
Label : Sony Classical
Catalog # : SK 60767
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Medieval
Total size : 165 MB
Total time : 01:12:00

Tracks:
Anthony Holborne
01. Galliard no 3 "Fairy Round"
Johann Daniel Mylius
02. Courante I
03. Courante II
04. Volte
Nicolas Vallet
05. Secretum musarum: Battaille
Matthäus Reymann
06. Noctes musicae: Chorea 1
Athanasius Kircher
07. Tarantella
Luys de Milan
08. Fantasia
Luys de Narváes
09. Mille regretz "La Canción del Emperador"
10. Baxa de contrapunto
11. Cancion del primer Tono
12. Diferencias sobre "Guárdame las vacas"
Anthony Holborne
13. Muy Linda (Galliard)
François Dufaut - Suite for Lute in A minor
14. Prélude Amila
15. Allemande
16. Courante
17. Sarabande
18. Courante
Esaias Reusner - Suite no 1 in D minor
19. Praeludium
20. Paduan
21. Sarabanda
22. Gigue
23. Gavotte
Michael Maier
24. Atalanta fugiens: Fugue no 10
Joachim Bernhard Hagen - Sonata for Lute in C minor
25. Andante
26. Allegro
27. Allegretto
Sylvius Leopold Weiss
28. Galanterie pièce
29. Presto in B-flat major
Adam Falkenhagen
30. Variations for Lute on "Nun sich der Tag geendet hat"

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Background information:
The time the music on 'Lute Music for Witches and Alchemists' was written was one of mysticism and wonder. The era of alchemists and witches tapped into the dark recesses of human understanding, during a time before scientific inquiry and rationalism. The dances, preludes and fantasias on this recording were intended to appeal to this older sensibility more than a rational or analytical one.
Lutz Kirchhof plays lute, vihuela and theorbo on this eclectic program of music from the renaissance and baroque. Each section of the recording is comprised of music inspired by witches with powers to heal and alchemists who quested for hidden knowledge. Kirchhof's choice of repertoire is eclectic. He plays Anthony Holborne's "The Fairy Round" with a jaunty swagger that's irresistible. The "Tarantella" by Athanasius Kircher is equally colorful, it's a musical remedy against the venomous bite of the tarantula. Kirchhof also plays with melancholy eloquence on the gentle "Fantasia" by Luys de Milan. The lutenist also displays some exuberant flair in Nicolas Vallet's "Battaille." This is a fascinating recording that resurrects some treasures from the lute repertoire framed in a clever programming concept.
The delicate lute tone charmed 16th- and 17th-century listeners by its simple acoustic beauty. The gentle plucked notes could affect the mood, altering one's emotional state. Kirchhof suggests that such potential made music invaluable to witches and alchemists, who were held in high regard in the irrational centuries before the Age of Enlightenment. This theory enables Kirchhof to make an eclectic selection of 30 short pieces covering 200 years and four different lutes--renaissance lute, vihuela, baroque lute, and theorbo. He does not claim that any of the items were actually put to any alchemical or satanic use, but he does not need to. The Presto and Galanterie by S. L. Weiss speak for themselves. Dufaut's Suite in A minor might not otherwise have reached the public; Hagen's Sonata in C minor would have remained obscure; and Holborne's The Fairy Round Galliard waited in vain for the revival of alchemy as a science. An eccentric disc all-round. - Rick Jones

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Montserrat Figueras
Ninna Nanna 1450 – 2002

Artist: Montserrat Figueras
CD title: Ninna Nanna 1450 - 2002
Release date: 2003
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 249-320 Kbit
Duration: 01:17:43
Total size: 141 MB

Tracks:
01 - Anon. Portugal - Cancao de emballar - Jose embala o menino [00:05:40]
02 - Anon. England - Lullaby - My little sweet darling [00:03:59]
03 - Anon. Greece - Lullaby - Koimnesou kaidemeno mou [00:03:23]
04 - Anon. Sepharad Moroco - Ladino lullaby - Nani, nani [00:06:01]
05 - Anon. - Berber - Amazigh lullaby [00:02:43]
06 - William Byrd - Lullaby - Come, pretty babe [00:02:45]
07 - Tarquinio Merula - Hor ch'e tempo di dormire [00:08:39]
08 - Anon. Alicante - Mareta, mareta no'm faces plorar [00:06:02]
09 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt - Dors mon enfant [00:03:11]
10 - Moussorgski - Children's room - With a doll [00:01:48]
11 - Anon. Israel - Hebrew lullaby - Noumi noumi yaldati [00:04:22]
12 - Arvo Part - Rojdestvenskaia Kolibelnaia [00:05:24]
13 - Max Reger - Maria Wiegenlied -Maria sitzl am Rosenhag [00:02:07]
14 - Manuel de Falla - Nana - Duermete, nino, duerme [00:04:30]
15 - Darius Milhaud - Hebrew lullaby - Dors, dors [00:01:37]
16 - Federico Garcia Lorca - Nana de Sevilla - Este galapaguito [00:04:17]
17 - Arvo Part - Estonian lullaby - Kuus, kuus kallike [00:04:13]
18 - Anon. Catalan - Canco de Bressol - La mare de Deu [00:06:56]

Background information:
Who doesn't love a lullaby? As a tribute "to all mothers and children", singer Montserrat Figueras offers this unusual program of 18 such songs from diverse sources and anonymous composers--Portuguese, English, Greek, Catalan, Hebrew, Sephardic, and North African--as well as pieces written by the likes of Byrd, Mussorgsky, Reger, Falla, Milhaud, and Pärt (two lullabies composed for this recording). Accompaniments show the stylish hand and always-tasteful imaginings of Jordi Savall and the instrumentalists of Hesperion XXI--viols, guitar, flutes, psaltery, harp--and, in three tracks, the piano of Paul Badura-Skoda. Although the liner notes prime us to expect very simple, repetitive tunes, Figueras transforms these ostensibly sleep-inducing songs into high, mind-and-ear-engaging art, embellishing, shaping, and imbuing them with deeply felt expression, sometimes wistful and at others fervent, but always delivered as if in intimate, personal touch with her listener(s).
And as diverse as the melodies (and languages) are, so does this repertoire give Figueras a chance to show her own considerable versatility, from the plaintive, chant-like José embala o menino (Portugal) to the extended, highly ornamented 16th century Sephardic ballad Nani, nani. Pärt's Berceuse de Noël (2002) is a gentle, sweetly rocking little song, ideally accompanied by viols, harp, psaltery, and santur; his Estonian cradle song, Kuus, kuus kallike, is as basic as it gets--an extremely simple, repetitive tune with a text of only three "words". For this last song--and for the Catalan lullaby Mareta, mareta no'm faces plorar--Figueras is joined by her daughter Arianna, an appropriate and beautiful match of voices. Mussorgsky's "With the doll" from his The Nursery and Milhaud's "Dors, dors" from his Hebrew songs--both accompanied by Badura-Skoda--are wonderful, rarely heard gems.

There are many other highlights here, and it's interesting to observe how Figueras adapts her voice and interpretive nuance to the different styles and texts. Of course, 77-plus minutes of these songs, all focused on one voice--a voice that to my ears has more edge and less warmth and softness than I'd prefer--can be a lot to take in at one sitting. But the beautiful songs and the first-rate presentation compel multiple listenings anyway, and the clear, detailed sound brings it up close but comfortably so, with natural, well-balanced instrumental timbres complementing the voices. --David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com

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Kazuhito Yamashita
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
The Firebird Suite (Stravinsky)

Artist: Kazuhito Yamashita
CD title: Pictures at an Exhibition
Release date: 1999
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 224 Kbit
Time: 00:55:11
Total size: 89 MB

Tracks:
Pictures at an Exhibition
1. I Promenade ; Gnomes [00:04:17]
2. II Promenade ; Il Vecchio Castello [00:05:59]
3. III Promenade ; The Tuileries [00:01:26]
4. IV Bydlo [00:02:58]
5. V Promenade ; Ballet of the Little Chickens [00:02:10]
6. VI Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle [00:02:29]
7. VII A Market Place in Limoges [00:01:17]
8. VIII Catacombae ; Con mortuis in lingua mortua [00:05:08]
9. IX The Hut of Baba-Yaga [00:03:04]
10. X The Bahatyr Gate of Kiev [00:06:59]
The Firebird Suite
11. I Introduction [00:03:25]
12. II The Firebird and It's Dance [00:00:20]
13. III Variations of the Firebird [00:01:16]
14. IV The Round of the Princesses [00:04:11]
15. V Infernal Dance of King Kastchei [00:04:05]
16. VI Lullaby [00:02:56]
17. VII Finale [00:03:01]

Background information:
Just as Franz Liszt created new repertoire and technique for the piano by transcribing Symphonies and Operas and then developing new techniques with which to play them, Kazuhito Yamashita took a similar path in the early 1980's and so revolutionised the world of possibilities on the guitar.

By transcribing well known pieces of orchestral music for solo guitar he has encouraged a trend which could make classical guitar much more appealing and accessible to concert programmers and the general concert going audience.

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Dialogos

Album : Terra Adriatica
Artist : Dialogos – Katarina Livljanic, dir.
Release date : 1999
Label : Harmonia Mundi
Catalog # : HMCD 87
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Medieval
Total size : 84,5 MB
Total time : 01 :06 :09

Tracks:
Glagolithic chant from Polojica
1. Litanije Lauretanske
Cartulaire of St. Marie of Zadar, 13th c.
2. Sanctus. Hosanna dulcis est cantica
Glagolithic chant from Polojica
3. Plac Jeremije proroka
4. Puce moj
Glagolithic chant from Polojica with apocryph history "How Joseph was sold by his brothers", 15th c., Oxford Bodleian Library. Ms. Can. Lit. 414
5. Pokoj Vjecni
Gregorian anthem, 12th c., Monte Cassino, Archivo della Badia, Ms 542
6. Dixit Isaac patri suo
Announce of movable feasts, Evangilarium of Osor, 11th c., Bibliot. Vat., Borg. Lat. 339
7. Annuntiamus karitatem
Gregorian anthem, 12th c., Monte Cassino, Archivo della Badia, Ms 542
8. Caminus ardebat
Troped Kyrie, 13th c., Assisi, Bibl. mun. Ms 695
9. Summe rex
Polyphonic lecture, 15th c., Zagreb, Antiphonary of O. Thuz, Biblioteca Metropolitana, MR 10
10. Liber Generationis secundum Matthaeum
Anon., 14th c., Bologna, Civico museo Musicale
11. Credo
Anon., 13th c., Laudario di Cortona, Biblioteca communale, Ms 91
12. Ave donna santissima
Traditional laud, Mala Subotica, Croatia
13. Magdalene javkanje
Anon., 13th c., Laudario di Cortona, Biblioteca communale, Ms 91
14. Magdalena degna da laudare
15. Laude novella sia cantata

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Performers:
Ensemble Dialogos [Gro Siri Ognoy Johansen, Christine Laveder, Aino Lund Lavoipierre, Lucia Nigohossian, Cornelia Schmid, Sandrah Silvio] - Katarina Livjanic, dir.
Recording site and date:
Abbaye de La Prée [1998]

Other recordings of Dialogos:
Lombards & Barbares
Guerres, musique et liturgie à Monte Cassino
Dialogos - Katarina Livjanic, dir.
Arcana A 319 [CD]
La vision de Tondal
À la recherche des chantres dalmates glagolitiques & latins
Dialogos - Katarina Livljanic, dir.
Arcana A 329 [CD]
A Terra Sancta ad Fines Terrae
Dialogos
Saga KPD-10.963

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We are filled with joy by this magnificent disc, in which every piece offers a new SPAMise (one must admire the care taken in varying the expression from strophe to strophe), and in which the singers vie with one another in expressiveness and sincerity.
Le Monde de la Musique, 1999

Dialogos discovers new ways to bring these repertories to life: through a very unique composition of its members, with singers coming from different cultures and traditions, through preparing programmes in a form of an 'atelier' where the collective energy creates a constant plural unity which emphasizes the bond between singer and actor. Livljanic founded this ensemble of women in 1996. Their interpretation and execution are outstanding. Some of the pieces involve polyphony of a primitive sort, such as the genealogy from the beginning of St. Matthew's gospel.
Goldberg

In these pieces as well as the liturgical selections, Katarina Livljanić's ornamentation and rhythmic interpretation are extremely convincing. Her skills as both musicologist and performing artist combine to create a truly superior recording.
Liturgica

Thanks to the emotions which they are capable of arousing, the singers, luminous and full off complicity, help us to discover and love a musical heritage which emerges bit by bit from obscurity.
La Vie

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Ana Vidovic
Guitar Recital

Artist: Ana Vidovic
CD title: Guitar Recital
Release date: 2000
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 190 Kbit/s
Time: 01:06:47
Total size: 90,4 MB

Tracks:
Partita in E major, BWV 1006a (trans. Walter Dešpalj)
1. Prelude – [03:24]
2. Loure – [03:46]
3. Gavotte en Rondeau – [02:34]
4. Menuett I and Menuett II – [03:20]
5. Bourree – [01:28]
6. Gigue – [01:50]
Sonata romantica (Homage to F. Schubert)
7. I. Allegro moderato – [05:38]
8. II. Andante epressivo – [04:34]
9. III. Allegretto vivo – [02:26]
10. IV. Allegro non troppo e serioso – [05:17]
Danza mora
11. Danza mora – [02:52]
Capricho arabe
13. Capricho arabe – [04:14]
Vals
14. Vals – [01:51]
The Troubadours Three
15. Melancholy – [03:38]
16. Sonnet – [04:07]
17. Celebration – [03:22]
5 Bagatelles
18. I. Allegro – [03:16]
19. II. Lento – [03:14]
20. III. Alla Cubana – [01:39]
21. IV. Sempre espressivo – [02:04]
22. V. Con slancio – [02:11]

Background information:
The disc covers two centuries of music, providing a searching test for the soloist. The Bach Suite has had a strange history. It started life as a work for violin, and was then arranged for lute. Now in a modern adaptation is appears in an arrangement for guitar. The work has become one of the composer's best known, the Gavotte third movement being performed in many guises. The Sonata by Ponce was composed in 1929, and pays homage to the music of Franz Schubert. In four contrasting movements, it is engaging music of a lyrical nature, happy in general mood, but is in no way derivative of the famous composer.

The works by Tárrega are typically colourful Spanish scores, packed full of virtuosity and vivacity. They are late 19th century in general style, and would have been used by the composer to please his audience. The three works by Sulek would meet our expectations of a composer who looked musically backwards. Walton, on the other hand, wrote five short movements that bristle with technical difficulties, the score residing in the mainstream of the 20th century.

About the artist:
Ana Vidovic is an extraordinary talent of formidable gifts taking her place amongst the elite musicians of the world today. She has won an impressive number of prizes and international competitions all over the world. Those include first prizes in the Albert Augustine International Competition in Bath, England, the Fernando Sor competition in Rome, Italy and the Francisco Tarrega competition in Benicasim, Spain. Other top prizes include the Eurovision Competition for Young Artists,the Mauro Giuliani competition in Italy, the Printemps de la Guitare in Belgium and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York.

Equally impressive is the fact that she has already recorded five CDs, one of them for the Naxos label,and that she has already concertized in some twenty countries throughout the world. She has performed in cities such as London, Paris, Vienna, Salzburg, Rome, Budapest, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Oslo, Copenhagen, Toronto, Baltimore, San Francisco, Houston, Austin, Dallas and St.Louis.

In her native Croatia she has performed with the Zagreb Soloists and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and with Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radio and Television,as well as having been featured in three television documentaries by the eminent Croatian film director Petar Krelja.

Ana Vidovic began playing the guitar at the early age of five and at thirteen she was the youngest student ever to enter the Musical Academy in Zagreb,where she studied with Professor Istvan Romer. Currently she is attending the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD, where she is further refining her remarkable gifts under the tutelage of world renown guitarist Manuel Barrueco.

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Aurelia Saxophone Quartet
Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition

Artist: Aurelia Saxophone Quartet
CD title: Gershwin/Mussorgsky
Release date: 1987
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 192-320 Kbit
Time: 00:41:43
Total size: 55,3 MB

Tracks:
01. Rhapsody in Blue (G. Gershwin).mp3 11:31
02. Bilder einer Ausstellung ( Mussorgsky), Promenade.mp3 1:36
03. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Gnomus.mp3 2:15
04. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Promenade.mp3 0:54
05. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Il Vecchio Castello.mp3 3:49
06. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Promenade.mp3 0:29
07. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Tuileries.mp3 0:56
08. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Bydlo.mp3 2:35
09. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Promenade.mp3 0:50
10. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Ballet des Poussins dans leurs Coques.mp3 1:09
11. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Samuel Goldenberg & Schmuyle.mp3 2:07
12. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Limoges, Le Marché.mp3 1:28
13. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Catacombae.mp3 1:49
14. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortura.mp3 2:03
15. Bilder einer Ausstellung ( Mussorgsky), La Cabane sur des Pattes de Poule.mp3 3:10
16. Bilder einer Ausstellung (Mussorgsky), La grande Porte de Kiev.mp3 4:54

Background information:
The Aurelia Saxophone Quartet takes its name from the Roman district where the group was founded in 1982 during a tour of the Dutch National Youth Orchestra. The concerts they gave in Rome were so successful that they decided to continued playing together back home in the Netherlands.
In addition to performing the traditional and modern quartet-compositions, the Aurelia Quartet has above all made a name with its own arrangements, two of which can be heard on this record.

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Orff: Carmina Burana.
Sheila Armstrong, Gerald English, Thomas Allen;
Andre Previn, St. Clement Danes Grammar School Boys' Choir and London Symphony Orchestra.

Artist: André Previn, London Symhony Orchestra etc.
CD title: Carmina Burana
Release date: 1986
Recording date: 1975
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 192-320 Kbit/s
Time: 01:02:36
Total size: 84,2 MB

Tracks:
01. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi - I. O Fortuna [00:02:45]
02. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi - II. Fortune plango vulnera [00:02:49]
03. I - Primo Vere - III. Veris leta facies [00:04:17]
04. I - Primo Vere - IV. Omnia sol temperat [00:02:07]
05. I - Primo Vere - V. Ecce gratum [00:02:49]
06. Uf Dem Anger - VI. Tanz [00:01:41]
07. Uf Dem Anger - VII. Floret Silva [00:03:26]
08. Uf Dem Anger - VIII. Chramer, gip die varwe mir [00:03:18]
09. Uf Dem Anger - IX. a) Reie, b) Swaz hie gat umbe, c) Chume, chum gesselle min [00:04:44]
10. Uf Dem Anger - X. Were diu werlt alle min) [00:00:57]
11. II - In Taberna - XI. Estuans interius [00:02:25]
12. II - In Taberna - XII. Olim lacus colueram [00:03:46]
13. II - In Taberna - XIII. Ego sum abbas [00:01:22]
14. II - In Taberna - XIV. In taberna quando sumus [00:03:20]
15. III - Cour d'Amours - XV. Amor volat undique [00:03:28]
16. III - Cour d'Amours - XVI. Dies, nox et omnia [00:02:18]
17. III - Cour d'Amours - XVII. Stetit puella [00:02:14]
18. III - Cour d'Amours - XVIII. Circa mea pectora [00:02:12]
19. III - Cour d'Amours - XIX. Si puer cum puellula [00:01:04]
20. III - Cour d'Amours - XX. Veni, veni, venias [00:01:04]
21. III - Cour d'Amours - XXI. In trutina [00:02:31]
22. III - Cour d'Amours - XXII. Tempus est iocundum [00:02:22]
23. III - Cour d'Amours - XXIII. Dulcissime [00:00:41]
24. Blanziflor et Helena - XXIV. Ave formosissima [00:01:59]
25. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi - XXV. O Fortuna [00:02:45]

Comments:
Penguin: Previn's 1975 analogue version, vividly recorded, still leads the available recorded performances of Orff's most popular work. It is strong on humour and rhythmic point. The chorus sings vigorously, the men often using an aptly rough tone, and if there is at times a lack of absolute precision, the resilience of Previn's rhythms, finely sprung, brings out a strain not just of geniality but of real wit. This is a performance which swaggers along and makes you smile. The recording captures the antiphonal effects impressively, better even in the orchestra than in the chorus. Among the soloists, Thomas Allen's contribution is one of the glories of the music making, and in their lesser roles the soprano and tenor are equally stylish. The digital re-mastering is wholly successful. The choral bite is enhanced, yet the recording retains its full amplitude. The background hiss has been minimised and is only really apparent in the quieter vocal solos in the latter part of the work. A triumphant success.

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Tears of Lisbon:
Music of Portugal From the Renaissance Through Today's Fado

Release Date: 06/02/1996
Label: Sony Classical
Catalog #: SK 62256
Composer: Various
Performers: Beatriz da Conçeição (Vocals), Antonio Rocha (vocals), José Manuel (Guitarra portuguesa), José Antonio (viola)
Conductor: Paul Van Nevel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble
Number of Discs: 1
Recorded at: 08/10/1995, Bijloke Abbey, Ghent, Belgium (Live)
Length: 01:07:43

Individual Track Details:
Anonymous (Portugal, 16th cent.)
1. Que he o que vejo [00:04:18]
2. Levamtese el pemsamemto [00:06:34]
Beatriz da Conçeição
3. Voltaste [00:03:16]
4. Eu preciso de te ver [00:01:59]
5. Noite [00:03:49]
Anonymous (Portugal, 16th cent.)
6. Lágrimas de saudade [00:05:02]
7. Não tragais borzeguis pretos [00:02:17]
Antonio Rocha
8. Luz de teu caminho [00:03:32]
9. Pede á noite [00:01:59]
10. Só pode ser amor [00:03:49]
Anonymous (Portugal, 16th cent.)
11. Minina dos olhos verdes [00:04:37]
12. Em mi gram sufrimento [00:02:53]
Beatriz da Conçeição
13. Vesti a minha saudade [00:03:46]
14. Meu corpo [00:04:43]
Anonymous (Portugal, 16th cent.)
15. Dipues vienes delhadea [00:03:30]
16. Espera sem fim [00:04:24]
Antonio Rocha
17. Sempre esperando [00:05:12]
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The Huelgas Ensemble was founded by director Paul Van Nevel in 1971. It has specialized in choral music, frequently with instrumental support, from the thirteenth century on to the early Baroque. Their recordings of the High Renaissance have been especially prized. They have also been pioneers in the performance of the difficult Ars Subtilior repertory of the late medieval era.

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Xuefei Yang
Si Ji (Four Seasons)

Artist: Xuefei Yang
CD title: Si Ji (Four Seasons)
Release date: 2005
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classical
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 320 Kbit/s
Time: 01:07:24
Total size: 155 MB

Tracks:
1 Yi Dance (W. Huiran)
2 Shepherd Boy with Flute (H. Luting)
3 Intonation (D. Ungerrank)
4 Long Out-stretched Pier with its Shadow (D. Ungerrank)
5 Wind on the Hill (D. Ungerrank)
6 Waiting for Guests (D. Ungerrank)
7 Land Circus (D. Ungerrank)
8 Heavenly Bird (traditional)
9 Lantern Song (traditional)
10 Mayila (traditional)
11 Meditation No. 2 (E. Hirschelman)
12 Meditation No. 1 (E. Hirschelman)
13 The Blue Kite (S. Goss)
14 Yellow Earth (S. Goss)
15 Farewell My Concubine (S. Goss)
16 I Ching No. 1 (C. Domeniconi)
17 I Ching No. 3 (C. Domeniconi)
18 I Ching No. 4 (C. Domeniconi)
19 I Ching No. 5 (C. Domeniconi)
20 I Ching No. 6 (C. Domeniconi)
21 I Ching No. 7 (C. Domeniconi)
22 South China Sea Peace (S.Funk Pearson)
23 Spring (T. Rougier) 24Summer (T. Rougier)
25 Autumn (T. Rougier) 26Winter (T. Rougier)

Background information:
Si Ji in Chinese is Four Seasons. We have chosen it to be the title of this "China" inspired album. I hope this disc will leave you with an image of variety and diversity of colors, like the four seasons.
As a musician, I feel a responsibility to communicate between different cultures and people through my music. As an artist from China, I would like to infuse the culture of my country in my music. As a guitarist, I hope to make a small contribution towards expanding the guitar repertoire, exploring new possibilities and enriching the techniques for the instrument.
The guitar originated in the Middle East, halfway between China and the West. Chinese culture is refined, poetic, expressive and adaptable, like Chinese painting. These virtues can be usefully applied to the guitar. I was struck by the possibilities of the instrument after recording this CD how ideas from the east have helped in exploring and enriching what is essentially western music.
I make music from my heart as always, and I hope that you will respond in a similar way.
Xuefei Yang (from the liner notes)

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Fedelta d'Amore
Music at the Court of Salzburg

Tracks:
01] Anonymous (15th Century): Tambur, Tambur
[02] G.G. Gastoldi (abt. 1550-1622): Alta Mendozza
[03] Anonymous: Galliard de la Bataille
[04] Anonymous (abt 1600): Celeste Giqlio
[05] Anonymous (15th Centuly): Pan de Miglio
[06] Ludwig Senfl (abt. 1490-1543): Unsäqlich Schmerz
[07] Hans Koner (abt. 1480-1541): Spanieler Tanz
[08] Rupert Unterholtzer (abt. 1550): Was nit soll sein
[09] Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605): Se ben mi chi ha bon tempo
[10] Paul Hofhaimer (1459-1537): Tandernaken
[11] Gregor Peschin (1st half of 16th Century): Oh wünsch ich ihr
[12] Anonymous (15th Century): "Visin, visin"
[13] Paul Hofhaimer (1459-1537): Meins traurens ist
[14] Heinrich Finck (1444-1527): Ach herzigs herz
[15] Paul Hofhaimer (1459-1537): Die prunlein die da vliessen
[16] Anonymous (15th Century): Rumfeltaer
[17] Paul Hofhaimer (1459-1537): Ich hab heimlich ergeben mich
[18] Paul Hofhaimer (1459-1537): Greiner zanner
[19] Hans Buchner (1483-1538): Tanzmaß Benzenauer mit Nachtanz
[20] Anonymous (15th Century): O Mischini, O Sciagurati
[21] Cesare Negri (1536-1604): Fedelta d'Amore

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