Monteverdi: Fire And Ashes / Hollingworth, I Fagiolini

I Fagiolini has established itself as one of the world's leading interpreters of the literature of the Italian madrigal.

Musica Disonesta: Mitti E Racconti Dell'umanesimo

This project is based on the premise that the 15th century related the blending of two cultural universes: the written one and the oral one.

In the Midst of Life - Music from the Baldwin Partbooks / Rees, Contrapunctus

A Gramophone Editor's Choice! Each of these powerfully contemplative works is beautifully shaped and sung.

Willaert: Musica Nova - The Motets / Singer Pur

With this recorded evidence, Willaert demonstrably occupies a place leading up to the glories of the High Renaissance that the next generation of composers achieved.

Pilgrimage To Santiago / Pickett, New London Consort

Vocal music collected from the regions of Navarre, Castile, Leon and Galicia in Spain and associated with the eleventh century pilgrimages to Santiago in honor of the apostle St. James.

Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo / Jacobs

Bara Faustus' Dreame / Les Witches

This is a classy and well-produced program that will please early music lovers, especially those looking for vibrant, articulate, period-instrument performances.

Dowland: Ayres / Gérard Lesne, Ensemble Orlando Gibbons

Sacred Brass - Palestrina, Allegri, Gesualdo / Canadian Brass

Hildegard Von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum / Sequentia

Hildegard von Bingen's music, written in the plainchant tradition of a single vocal line, was inspired by her mystical visions and devotion to religion.