Various Artists - American Tapestry / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Rare-instrument specialist Thomas Bloch is equally at home performing on the soundtrack to Milos Forman' Amadeus, with rock group Radiohead, or at La Scala, Milan or the Salzburg Festival. Album Tracks 1. Introit 2. Kyrie - Gloria 3. Alleluia 4. Credo 5. Offertoire 6. Sanctus - Benedictus 7. Anamnese 8. Pater Noster 9. Agnus Dei 10. Ite Missa Est 11. Sancta Maria 12. Cold Song 13. Recitativo 14. Aria 15. Christ Hall Postlude

Music played an important role in the Renaissance theatre and Shakespeare brought new subtlety to it's use. In a theatre without lights and sets, it fell to music to underline mood, whether for magic, comedy, feasting or pathos. Album Tracks 1. Hark, Hark! the Lark 2. When Daffodils Begin to Peer 3. When Daisies Pied 4. Fortune 5. Fear No More the Heat O' the Sun 6. Lawn As White As Driven Snow 7. Kemp's Jig 8. Callino 9. It Was a Lover and His Lass 10. When That I Was 11. How Should I Your True Love Know? 12. Bonny Sweet Robin 13. Tomorrow Is St Valentine's Day 14. And Will He Not Come Again? 15. In Youth When I Did Love 16. Tarleton's Resurrection 17. Hey, Jolly Robin 18. The Poor Soul Sat Sighing, InchWillow SongInch 19. O Mistress Mine 20. Come Away Death 21. Divisions on Greensleeves 22. Farewell Dear Heart 23. Packington's Pound 24. Take, O Take Those Lips Away 25. O Sweet Oliver 26. Light O' Love 27. Who Is Sylvia? 28. The Sick Tune 29. Sigh No More Ladies 30. Come Live with Me 31. When Griping Grief 32. O Death Rock Me Asleep 33. Heartsease 34. You Spotted Snakes 35. The Woozel Cock 36. Full Fathom Five 37. My Lady Hunsdon's Puff 38. Where the Bee Sucks

This program focuses on the Missa pro defunctis by the composer Charles d'Argentil. Recorded for the first time here, it is one of only a dozen musical settings of the liturgy of the dead written before 1550 to have survived to this day. Little-known today, Charles d'Argentil, who worked in the prestigious Papal Chapel in Rome, was a key figure in the French Renaissance, as well as in the establishment of musical settings of the Requiem for papal ceremonies. His setting sits alongside the three Lamentations du samedi saint by Claudin de Sermisy, composer to the French royal chapel under François I, and Jehan Barra's Salve Regina. The Gilles Binchois ensemble here sheds light on an all-too-often overlooked part of musical history, through the generation that directly followed Josquin des Prés. The art of these three composers bears witness to the high level of mastery attained by that productive and talented generation. Album Tracks 1. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis I. Introit 2. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis II. Kyrie 3. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis III. Séquence 4. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis IV. Pie Jesu 5. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis V. Sanctus 6. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis VI. Agnus Dei 7. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis VII. Communion 8. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis VIII. Répons 9. Sermisy Lamentations Lectio I 10. Sermisy Lamentations Lectio II 11. Sermisy Lamentations Lectio III 12. Barra Salve Regina