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 Melodious Birde - Keyboard Music By William Byrd by Colin Booth: solo harpsichord music
2. Old School Old Time by Fiddle Whamdiddle: foot-stomping, heart-pumping, head-bobbing music that snags audiences and reels them in!
3. JS Bach on Solo Ukulele by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
4. Dowland on 8 String Guitar by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
5. Lautenschmaus by Daniel Shoskes: A feast of Baroque lute
6. JS Bach on Solo Ukulele Volume 2 by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
7. A Spagna in the Works by Alison Crum and Roy Marks: Ethereal, enigmatic and exhilarating renaissance miniature masterpieces for viol and lute
8. Louis Couperin Harpsichord Music by Colin Booth: solo harpsichord music
9. Around the World by Monom: ethnotronica, World music, electronic, downtempo, ambient techno, dystopia, cinematic, far-east, Australia and Europe
10. Handel on Guitar Volume 1 by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
11. Telemann on Guitar by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
12. Le 9 sonate per violoncello solo e continuo by Vito Paternoster: cellist extraordinaire
13. Patrons of the Lute by Daniel Shoskes: A feast of Baroque lute
14. Influenza Italiana by Ensemble Mirable: rare and extraordinary music of the Baroque
15. Instant Fires by Poeticall Musicke: Late Renaissance and Early Baroque music, historically performed
16. CD2-JS Bach-Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord by Ingrid Matthews and Byron Schenkman: baroque violin & harpsichord
17. Ancient Mosaic with Guitar by La Reverie: Recreating traditional music from a modern perspective
18. Fogliano to Froberger - A Century of Ricercars by Colin Booth: solo harpsichord music
19. Pasquale Pericoli - Sei Sonate a Violoncello e basso by Vito Paternoster: cellist extraordinaire
20. Musica da Camera by Streicher Trio: classical chamber music on period instruments

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