Nominated for a GRAMMY and winner of a CMA/WQXR Record Award, this disc was also chosen as GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE's DISC OF THE YEAR.

What the critics have said::

'...highly attractive... Quite irresistible.'
The Sunday Times

'Easily surpasses the competition.'
BBC Music Magazine

'It is surely one of the best anthologies of this repertory to have appeared on CD...be sure to add this one to your collection...Superb.'
Gramophone

'Performed with grace and joy...a delightful recording.'
Classical Music Web

'I hope that cover's only temporary. It looks more like a Karate instruction manual.'
Peter's Mum

1. Propinan de melyor (anon)
2. Dindiridin (anon)
3. Con amores mi madre (Juan de Anchieta)
4. Durandarte (anon)
5. La Spagna (Francesco Canova da Milano)
6. Fantasia (Francesco Canova da Milano)
7. Baxa de contrapunto (Luis de Narvaez)
8. Differencias sobr'el canto (Antonio de Cabezon)
9. La Alta (Francisco de la Torre)
10. De dos la mer (anon)
11. Prelude : Ay triste que vengo (Juan del Encina)
12. Ya cantan los gallos (Vilches)
13. Secaronme los pesares (Pedro de Escobar)
14. Vuestros amores e senora (Juan del Encina)
15. Musica para discanter sobre un punto (Enriquez de Valderrabano)
16. Aquella mora garrida (Gabriel Mena)
17. Mi libertad en sosiego (Juan del Encina)
18. Dolce amoroso focho (anon)
19. L'amor dona ch'io te porto (Giacomo Fogliano)
20. Fabordon del primer tono (Antonio de Cabezon)
21. Que faray ie mal fortune (anon)
22. La Spagna (Francisco de la Torre)
23. O cuidado mensagero (Gabriel Mena)
24. Al alva venid bue amigo (anon)
25. Puse mis amores (anon)
26. La Spagna (anon)
27. La tricotea Samartin la vea (anon)
28. So ell enzina enzina (anon)
29. Oy comamos y bebamos (Juan del Encina)
30. Pase el agoa ma Julieta (anon)
31. Calabaca no se buen amor (anon)

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 8/8/2010
Dufay Collective lives in London England

Tagged as: Classical, Renaissance, Classical Singing, Composer: Antonio de Cabezon, Composer: Enriquez de Valderrabano, Composer: Francesco Canova da Milano, Composer: Francisco de la Torre, Composer: Juan de Anchieta, Composer: Juan del Encina, Composer: Luis de Narvaez, Flute, Lute, Viola da Gamba

1. The Black Dragon by Canconier: Medieval music from the 12th to the 15th centuries
2. Simone Molinaro by Paul Beier: solo lute of the Italian renaissance.
3. Medieval and Traditional Carols, Chansons and Festive Dances by In Nova Cantica: carols and chansons from the 13th - 17th Centuries for dancing, festivities and mayhem
4. Pastourelle by Fortune's Wheel: a spirited rediscovery of the riches of medieval musical traditions
5. Cantica by La Reverie: Recreating traditional music from a modern perspective
6. Michelagnolo Galilei by Paul Beier: solo lute of the Italian renaissance.
7. For the Love of Jaqueline by Asteria: late-medieval vocal and instrumental music
8. Canarios I by Poeticall Musicke: Late Renaissance and Early Baroque music, historically performed
9. English Renaissance Music by La Primavera: English Renaissance music.
10. Influenza Italiana by Ensemble Mirable: rare and extraordinary music of the Baroque
11. Bach and Telemann - Sonatas, Preludes and Fantasias by Voices of Music: Lilting Renaissance & Baroque vocal interpretations
12. Soyes Loyal by Asteria: late-medieval vocal and instrumental music
13. Vocal music of the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris in the year 1200 by Vox Nostra: gorgeously complex and rich vocals using manuscripts from the middle ages
14. Passion, Pestilence and Polyphony by Misericordia: sickeningly good Medieval
15. Black Cow by Jacob Heringman: renaissance lute
16. Canarios III by Poeticall Musicke: Late Renaissance and Early Baroque music, historically performed
17. Preludes by Takashi Matsuishi Spark: flautists with finesse, intelligence and grooves
18. Sinfonie and Sonate del settecento italiano per Violoncello e Basso Continuo by Vito Paternoster: cellist extraordinaire

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