The Renaissance Band

The Renaissance Band

New York Pro Musica - Noah Greenberg, dir., LaNoue Davenport, a/dir.
Decca "Gold Label" DL 9424 [LP, mono]
Decca "Gold Label" DL 7 9424 [LP, stereo]
MCA 2513 [LP]

Contents:

Michael Praetorius: A Suite of Dances

1. Passameze pour les cornetz
2. Galliarde de Monsieur Wustrow
   Galliarde de la Guerre
   Reprise
3. Pavane de Spaigne
4. La Bourree
5. Courrant de la Royne
6. Passameze
   Galliarde

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Heinrich Isaac:

7. A la bataglia

Orlando di Lasso:

8. Hor che la nuova
9. Chi chilichi?
10. Echo - Valle profonda
11. Passan vostri triomphi

Demonstration of Instruments - Excerpts from Praetorius Suite

The Soft Instruments

12. a) A Recorder Consort: Bouree, Part I (soprano, alto, tenor, bass recorder)
    b) A Krummhorn Consort: Bouree, Part III (soprano, alto, tenor, bass krummhorn)
    c) A Mixed Consort of Soft Instruments: Courrant de la Royne (alto recorder, tenor flute, regal, tenor dulcian, bass viola da gamba)

The Loud Instruments

13. a) Cornetts and Sackbut: Closing Galliarde (cornett, bass sackbut, 2 cornetts and sackbut)
    b) Loud Double Reed Consort: Galliarde de M. Wustrow (rauschpfeife, soprano shawm, alto shawm, tenor shawm, rackett)
    c.1) Loud and Soft Consorts: Passametz pour les Cornetz (A loud consort: 2 cornetts, 2 shawms, 2 sackbuts)
    c.2) Loud and Soft Consorts: Passametz pour les Cornetz (A soft consort: 4 Recorders and portative organ)
    c.3) Loud and Soft Consorts: Passametz pour les Cornetz (The combined consorts)

Playing time: ??' ??"

Performers:
New York Pro Musica [Robert Montesi (cornett), LaNoue Davenport (cornett, recorders, krummhorns), Arnold Fromme (tenor sackbut), Robert Szabo (bass sackbutt), Shelly Gruskin (rauschpfeife, flute, recorders, krummhorns), Judith Martin (soprano shawm, recorder), Ronald Roseman (alto shawm), Donald Plesnicar (tenor shawm), Martha Bixler (recorders, krummhorns), Kenneth Wollitz (rackett, tenor dulcian, recorders, krummhorns), Judith Davidoff (bass viola da gamba), Edward Smith (harpsichord, regal, portative organ), Frederick King (percussion)] - Noah Greenberg, dir. & LaNoue Davenport, a/dir.

Recording site and date:
Unknown [04/1965];
Rel.: 1965

Excerpts
[1]-[11] Millennium Classics UMD 80 565 Praetorius & Susato - Renaissance dances

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Comments:
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