A Renaissance
Christmas
CD
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$15.00
“Wow!... spectacular sound - very direct and alive”
-Stereophile
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“a glorious recording”
- American Record Guide
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“If you're looking for a beautiful, peaceful collection of music to add to your holiday collection, this is it.” -Amazon.com 5-Star rating!
Produced in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this colorful disc celebrates the winter holiday with Renaissance carols and noels. Selections include: “Green grow'th the holly” and Taunder Naken from the Songbook of Henry VIII, noels by Busnois, Dufay and Brumel, 15th- century English carols, late Renaissance motets, lute songs, villancicos and instrumental dances by Palestrina, Attey, Arbeau and Praetorius' “Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen.”
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This full color cover features “The Annunciation” (detail) by Botticelli from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A generous twenty page booklet includes notes and complete texts with parallel English translations.
65 minutes.
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Artists: Todd Frizzell - tenor & harp; Wayne Hankin - winds & tenor; Dan Rigazzi - tenor; Mark Rimple - alto & lute; Mark Sullivan - bass-baritone; Jon Szabo - bass-baritone & vielle