California-based early music ensemble Voices of Music performs a suite from the early baroque dance collection Terpsichore (1612) by the German composer Michael Praetorius, one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns. Live, 4K UHD video recorded in December 2016.
Category Archives: Historic
10 Interesting Medieval Instruments [and how they sound!]
There were a lot of interesting medieval musical instruments used in European music. Have you ever wondered how they sound? Here are 10 of them, played by musicians.
Folies d’Espagne [Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall]
An early music concert: Folies d’Espagne – conducted by Jordi Savall, international early music ensemble Hespèrion XXI performs folias from Spain. La Folía (Spanish), also folies d’Espagne (French), Follies of Spain (English) or Follia (Italian), is one of the oldest remembered European musical themes, or primary material, generally melodic, of a composition, on record.
John Dowland: Flow My Tears (Lachrimae) [Soprano: Phoebe Jevtović Rosquist, Lute: David Tayler]
Phoebe Jevtović Rosquist (soprano) and David Tayler (archlute) perform Flow My Tears (Lachrimae), a lute song (specifically, an “ayre”) by the Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626). HD video from the “Saturday Night at the Movies” concert presented by the award-winning early music ensemble Voices of Music, January …
Folia, Variations by Corelli, Scarlatti and Marais [Ensemble Musica Narrans]
Early music ensemble Musica Narrans performs Folia variations by the baroque period composers Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Marin Marais.
O death, rock me asleep (Anne Boleyn’s lament) [Anna Dennis & Voices of Music]
Anne Boleyn’s lament, “O death, rock me asleep,” performed by soprano Anna Dennis with the San Francisco-based Early Music ensemble Voices of Music. 4K ultra high definition video from the ensemble’s Great Poets concert, January 2015.
Santiago de Murcia: Tarantella [Rolf Lislevand]
Norwegian concert guitarist and early music specialist Rolf Lislevand plays Tarantella by the Spanish guitarist and composer Santiago de Murcia (25 July 1673 – 25 April 1739). Lislevand is playing the Sabionari guitar here, one of the five surviving guitars made by Antonio Stradivari. It is built in 1679 and at the present time, it …
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Tarquinio Merula’s Ciaccona: Three beautiful versions
Voices of Music, Il Giardino Armonico (The Harmonious Garden) and L’Arpeggiata versions of Tarquinio Merula’s Ciaccona, Op.12 No.20 (first published in 1637).
Santiago de Murcia: Prelude por la E [Baroque Guitar: Simone Vallerotonda]
Italian guitarist, theorbist, and lutenist Simone Vallerotonda performs Santiago de Murcia’s Prelude por la E, a piece dated 1714. A beautiful performance on baroque guitar.
Early Baroque music: “Tormenti e dolce oblio”
Early Baroque music: “Tormenti e dolce oblio”. Performers: Marc Mauillon (baritone), Angélique Mauillon (harp), and Friederike Heumann (viola da gamba). Recorded at the Palazzo Da Mosto in Venice on September 13, 2014.
