A Guide to Period Instruments

Guide des Instruments anciens
A Guide to Period Instruments – Leitfaden durch die Historischen Instrumente
Various performers
Ricercar RIC 100 [CDx8 + Book]

Contents:

    CD-1

    Moyen Âge

    Improvisation
  1. Appels (Olifant)

    2. Gregorian Chant
  2. Hymn: Ut queant laxis (carillon, symphonie)

    3. Cantigas de Santa Maria

    Alfonso el Sabio
  3. CSM 77: Da que Deus amou (clari, naquaires)
  4. CSM 421: Nembressete, madre de Deus (transverse flute, psaltery)
  5. CSM 37: Miragres fremosos (medieval lute, fiddle, tambourine bells)
  6. CSM 101: Rosas das rosas (harp)
  7. CSM 123: De Santa Maria sinal (psaltery)
  8. CSM 119: Come somos (medieval bagpipe, pair of scallops shell)

    9. Au temps des Troubadours et des Trouvères

    Martim Codax: Cantigas de Amigo
  9. Mia Yrmana (saracen guitar, transverse flute, zarb)

    10. Anon.14th c.
  10. Saltarello IV (ud, castanets)

    11. Anon.
  11. La quinte estampie real (citole)

    12. Colin Muset
  12. Sire cuens, j'ai viélé (pipe and tabor, claquebois)

    13. Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
  13. Kalenda maya (fiddle)

    14. Richard Coeur de Lion
  14. Ja nuns hons pris (bone flute)

    15. Music after Châtelain de Coucy
  15. Plainte (crwth)

    16. Anon.: Roman de Fauvel
  16. Se j'onques à mon vivant (pipe, stringed drum)

    17. Anon.
  17. Pious song: en Egipte m'en veuil aller (chifonie)

    18. Anon., trouvère
  18. Belle Aelis (muse, derbouka, foot cowbells)

    19. Anon., 14th c.
  19. Trotto (fiddle)

    20. Anon., Hungary
  20. Apor Lazar Tancz (recorder with 6 holes, cittern, triangle with small metal rings)

    21. Étienne de Meaux
  21. Trop est mes maris jalos (low-shifted rebec, crotales)

    22. Anon., 13th c., after Carmina Burana
  22. Danxa aurrea de Phebo (bagpipe, tambourine)

    23. Les débuts de la polyphonie: Ars Antiqua et Ars Nova

    Pistoleta
  23. Sirventois sonnerie (shawm, slide trumpet, cymbals)

    24. Adam de la Halle
  24. A Dieu comant amouretes (double recorder, guiterne)

    25. Grossin de Paris
  25. Va t'en souspier (cow horn)

    26. Guillaume de Machaut
  26. Très douce dame (cylindrical recorder, low-shifted fiddle)

    27. Anon., 13th c.
  27. Pucelette – Je languis – Domino (guiterne, citole, symphonie)

    28. Anon.: Roman de Fauvel
  28. Inter amenitatis tripudia (slide trumpet)

    29. Guillaume Dufay
  29. Gloria ad modum tubae (straight trumpet)

    30. Gilles Binchois
  30. Filles à marier (shawm, fiddle, lute & soprano)

    31. Guillaume Dufay
  31. J'ai grant dolour (rebec, lute)

    32. Francesco Landini
  32. Amor cal tuo sogetto ognor mi trovo (organetto)

    33. Guillaume Dufay
  33. Mille bonjours, je vous présente (clavicytherium)

    34. Anon.
  34. Appels militaires (straight trumpet)

    35. Guillaume Dufay
  35. Donnes l'assault à la fortresse (fiddle & tenor, soprano)

    36. Anon.: Buxheimer Orgelbuch
  36. Redeuntes in Idem (organ)

    37. Arnold de Lantins: Buxheimer Orgelbuch
  37. Esclaphe: Buxheimer (regal)

    38. Conrad Pauman
  38. Mit ganzem willen (clavichord)

    39. Johannes Brassart
  39. Ave Maria / O Maria (sackbut & counter-tenors)

    40. Anon., 15th c.
  40. Tuba Gallicalis (shawm, bombard, slide trumpet)

    41. CD-II

    Danses de la Renaissance

    Joan Ambrosio Dalza
  41. Saltarello & piva (lute in G)
  42. Padouana alla Venecians (simple harp)

    43. Anon., Italy
  43. Pavana El tedescho & Saltarello El machese di Saluzzo (trombones: alto, tenor, bass)
  44. Paduana & #171; La norte de la ragione » (tenor courtaud, basset recorder, bass recorder, double bass recorder

    45. Gioseppe Giamberto
  45. Il ballo de Mantua (lira da braccio, pipe and tabor)

    46. Alonso Mudarra
  46. Pavane & Romanesca (guitar with four courses of strings)

    47. Pierre Attaignant
  47. Pavane (lute in G, lute in F)

    48. Thoinot Arbeau
  48. Bransle de Champagne (violin, pipe and tabor)

    49. Pierrre Attaignant
  49. Allemande (IV) (treble violin, taille de violon, quinte de violon, bass violin, percussions)

    50. Jehan Chardavoine
  50. Devenus suis amoureux (hurdy-gurdy, voice)

    51. Tielman Susato
  51. Pavane de la Bataille (rauschpfeife)

    52. Michaël Praetorius
  52. Ballet des Amazones & La Rosette (shawm in D, alto bombard, bass bombard)
  53. Bransles gay et Bransles de Montirandé (violin)
  54. Ballade à 4 (alto bassoon, tenor bassoon, bass bassoon)
  55. Courant de Battaglia (trumpet)
  56. Ballet de la Reine (lute)

    57. Anon.
  57. Padouana à 5 (soprano bagpipe, alto bagpipe, bass bagpipe)

    58. Johan Hermann Schein
  58. Padouana, Gagliarda, Almand à 4 (recorder)

    59. John Bull
  59. The Queen Alman (claviorganum)

    60. Anthony Holborne
  60. Pavane Quadro & Wilssons wyde (cittern)

    61. Orlando Gibbons
  61. The Earl of Salisbury (virginal)

    62. John Jenkins
  62. Almain & Two Thumps (lyra viol)

    63. Anthony Holborne
  63. Praeludium & Gailliard (bandora)

    64. Anon.
  64. Allemandes et Bransle de Champagne (virginal)

    65. Melkior Franck
  65. Padouana & tanz (rackett, viola da gamba)

    66. Johan Hermann Schein
  66. Padouana (krumhorn)

    67. Moritz von Hessen
  67. Pavana del Francisco Segario (recorder, mute cornett, sordun, trombone, bass viola)

    68. CD-III (under construction)

    Renaissance: Fantaisies, Ricercare...

    Chansons et Madrigaux

    Musique d'église

    Variations

    CD-IV (under construction)

    L'arte de diminuir

    Au temps de Monteverdi

    Birds and flutes

    The following CDs are outside the purpose of medieval.org, so they are not reviewed

    CD-V

    La France au XVIIe siècle

    Birds and flutes

    CD-VI

    Bach et son temps

    CD-VII

    Le style concertant

    Paris au temps de Louis XV

    Paris au temps du Concert spirituel

    CD-VII

    Classicisme

Playing time: ??'

Release date:
November 2009

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 576-70 (Jan. 2010)

Comments:
(from outhere-music.com):
« This Guide to Period Instruments endeavours to answer the questions that every lover of early music has about the instruments used in these periods of music history. Text and recorded excerpts describe the origin and the development of every musical instrument from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century and place them in their historical context. There is a completely new presentation booklet, over 200 pages long and abundantly illustrated, as well as eight CDs of recorded examples of the instruments that shed new light upon major periods of music history. These excerpts have been drawn from the Ricercar catalogue for the most part and are completed by new recordings made for the purpose as well as by material made available to us by other specialist recording labels. This Guide to Period Instruments is a perfect synthesis of the music lover's thirst for knowledge with the sheer pleasure of hearing these historical instruments »

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