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Musica bona

Musica bona est melancholico, mala lugenti; surdo autem neque bona, neque mala… (quoted from Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata, book published in 1677 and written by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza).

Work in progress
This is my early music selection. I try a roughly chronological index but in eras classification even scholars disagree: many composers used Renaissance style for decades after 1600, sometimes it gets confused with early Baroque and so on…

Medieval miscellanea

• “Jesu, rex admirabilis” (Gregorian chant, sung by Giovanni Vianini)
• “Ut queant laxis” gregoriano (voz de Giovanni Vianini)
• “Dies irae” gregoriano (voz de Giovanni Vianini)
• Organum “Jube domine silentium” (Limoges, s. XII)
• Codex Calixtinus: conductus “Congaudeant catholici” (Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès)
• Llibre vermell de Montserrat (“Stella splendens in monte” and “Inperayritz de la ciutat ioyosa” performed by Alla francesca)
• Landini: “Ecco la primavera”
• John Cooke: Gloria from the Old Hall manuscript
• Ms. Escorial (s. XV): “Hora may che fora son” (Ensemble Ars Italica; Ensemble Micrologus)

Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450 – 1521)

• Josquin: “Douleur me bat” (paintings by Hieronymus Bosch)
• Josquin: Kyrie from Missa “Pange lingua” with score
• Josquin: “El grillo”
• Masaccio (música de fondo: “O virgo virginum” de Josquin)

O. di Lasso (ca. 1532 – 1594)

• Lasso: “Osculetur me”
• Lasso: “Timor et tremor venerunt super me”
• Lasso: “Madonna mia, pietà”
• Lasso: Kyrie I da Missa super “Susanne un jour”

T. L. de Victoria (1548 – 1611)

• Victoria: “O magnum mysterium” (con partitura)
• Victoria: “O magnum mysterium” (Coro Musicanova)
• Victoria: “Pueri hebraeorum vestimenta” (La Colombina e Schola Antiqua)
• Victoria: “Taedet animam meam” e “Introitus”

Renaissance miscellanea

• Lealtad, o lealtad
• Coro de Cámara “Giovanni Bardi” (Cancionero de Palacio, Mudarra, Pisador, Arañés)
• “O voy” (Cancionero de Palacio)
• Juan del Encina: romance “Una sañosa porfía” (Jordi Savall)
• Juan del Encina: “Todos los bienes del mundo”
• “Mi libertad en sosiego” e “Si Amor pone las escalas” (Musica Mundana, Eduardo Jahnke)
• “Un cavalier di Spagna” (villotta)
• Marchetto Cara: “Io non compro più speranza…” (frottola)
• Filippo Azzaiolo: “Vorrei che tu cantassi una canzone”
• Verdelot: “Ultimi miei sospiri”
• Arcadelt: “Il bianco e dolce cigno”
• Hans Newsidler: Ach Elslein, liebes Elselein mein
• “Vitrum nostrum gloriosum” (King’s Singers)
• Claudin de Sermisy: “Languir me fais”
• Sermisy / Attaignant: “D’où vient cela” (Valéry Sauvage, lute)
• Pierre Attaignant: Tourdion
• Morales: “Peccantem me cotidie”
• Morales / Fuenllana: romance “De Antequera sale el moro” (Shirley Rumsey, voz e vihuela)
• Narvaez: “Cancion del emperador” after “Mille regres” by Josquin (Valéry Sauvage, lute and vihuela)
• Narvaez: Siete diferencias sobre “Guardame las vacas” (Valéry Sauvage, lute)
• Narvaez: 4 diferencias sobre “Guardame las vacas” (Trond Bengtson, lute)
• Narvaez: 3 diferencias sobre “Guardame las vacas” (Pascale Boquet, vihuela)
• Mudarra: Fantasía X “…en la manera de Ludovico”
• Mudarra: Romanesca (Arkadi Burkhanov, guitarra renacentista)
• La Lyra Hispana (performing pieces by Diego Ortiz and Victoria)
• Cancionero de Medinaceli: “A veintisiete de marzo” (Jordi Savall)
• Ensemble “La Danserye” (performing “Subiendo Amor” by Francisco Guerrero)
• Juan Vásquez: “Mi mal de causa es”
• Tallis: “Loquebantur variis linguis apostoli” (Intrada, Ekaterina Antonenko; Cantemus, Szabó Soma; Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott)
• Tallis: “Dum transisset Sabbatum” (Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott)
• Robert White: Lamentations of Jeremiah (Huelgas Ensemble)
• Byrd: Mass for four voices (Vassar College Choir)
• Morley: “Thirsis” (violas da gamba)
• Palestrina: “Chiare, fresche e dolci acque” (Pro Musica Antiqua Milano, Giovanni Vianini)
• “Media vita in morte sumus” (Kerle)
• Thomas Ravenscroft: “There were three ravens sat on a tree” (Valéry Sauvage, renaissance guitar)
• Dowland: “In darkness let me dwell” (Gérard Lesne; Andreas Scholl; Christina Högman)
• Gesualdo: “Moro, lasso, al mio duolo”
• Giovanni Gabrieli: Sanctus (Michael Holmes, director)
• Hernando Franco: “Magnificat” (Grupo Vocal “Gregor”, Dante Andreo)
• Hernando Franco: “Salve regina”
• Hanacpachap cussicuinin
• Allegri: Miserere (fragmento) cantado polo Schola Romana Ensemble

C. Monteverdi (1567 – 1643)

• Monteverdi: “Sfogava con le stelle” (entre outras versións, The Consort of Musicke con Anthony Rooley)
• Monteverdi: “Pulchra es” from 1610 Vesperae (O Bando de Surunyo)
• Monteverdi: “Zephiro torna e ‘l bel tempo rimena” (O Bando de Surunyo)
• Monteverdi: dous madrigais do VIII libro para un soneto de Petrarca

H. Schütz (1585 – 1672)

• Schütz: “Die mit Tränen säen werden mit Freuden ernten” SWV 378 (Schütz-Akademie, Howard Arman)
• Schütz: “Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt” SWV 380
• Schütz: “Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit” (Bragi a-capellakoor, Rein de Vries)
• Schütz: “Habe deine Lust an dem Herren” (Sebastian Hennig, René Jacobs)

H. Purcell (1659 – 1695)

• Purcell: “In the midst of life” (Intrada, Ekaterina Antonenko)
• “Media vita in morte sumus” (Kerle) and “In the midst of life” (Purcell)
• Purcell: “Welcome to all the pleasures” Z 339 (Chorus Sanctae Ceciliae)
• Purcell: “Sound the trumpet” (James Bowman, Michael Chance)
• Purcell: “Now that the sun hath veiled his light”, Z 193 (Emma Kirkby; Rachel Elliott; Thomas Cooley)
• Purcell: “Tell me, some pitying angel…”, Z 196 (Christine Brandes; Rachel Elliott)
• Chia-Fen Wu and Ann De Prest sing Purcell

Early Baroque (ca. 1600 – 1700) miscellanea

• Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla: lamentacións para a Semana Santa
• Giulio Caccini: “Amarilli, mia bella” (Andreas Scholl)
• Giulio Caccini: “Dolcissimo sospiro”
• Piccinini: Corrente VI “L’Alemana” (Valéry Sauvage, theorbo)
• Frescobaldi: “Cento partite sui Passachagli” (Fernando De Luca, cravo)
• Froberger: Toccata II (Christian Barthen; Enrico Baiano)
• Sweelinck: “Ballo del granduca”
• Jacobus van Noordt / Nicolas Vallet / Sweelinck: Malle Symes / Mal Simmes / Malle Sijmen (recorder; lute; organ)
• Schelle: “Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt” (cantata)
• Buxtehude: Toccata in d-Moll BuxWV 155 (Bernard Foccroulle, Orgel)
• Marin Marais: “La rêveuse” (Savall; Rasi; Kowalska; Leeuwarden)
• Marin Marais: “Le badinage”
• Marin Marais: dúas pílulas
• Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Lully): “Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs”
• Jácara “No hay que decir del primor” (Montserrat Figueras)
• Salga el torillo

J. S. Bach (1685 – 1750)

• [ca. 1707] J. S. Bach: Cantate “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit” BWV 106 (”Actus tragicus”)
• [ca. 1710] Bach: Toccata fis-Moll, BWV 910 (Fernando De Luca, Cembalo)
• [ca. 1710] Bach: Toccata c-Moll, BWV 911 (Fernando De Luca, Cembalo)
• [1714] Bach (cantata BWV 61): coro “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland”
• [ca. 1718] Bach: allemande from partita BWV 1013 (Jan van Hoecke, recorder)
• [ca. 1720] Pau Casals playing Cello Suite No. 1 in G major (BWV 1007)
• [ca. 1720] Bach: Sarabande and Courante from BWV 1010 (Anna Kowalska, lute)
• [ca. 1720] A pílula de Bach (air from orchestral suite BWV 1068)
• [1722] Bach: Praeludium und Fuge cis-Moll, BWV 849 (Fernando De Luca, Cembalo)
• [1722] Bach: Praeludium es-Moll und Fuge dis-Moll, BWV 853 (Fernando De Luca, Cembalo)
• [1722] Bach: Praeludium und Fuge fis-Moll, BWV 859 (Fernando De Luca, Cembalo)
• [1723] J. S. Bach: Choral “Es ist genug” (aus BWV 60)
• [1724] Coro da cantata BWV 26 “Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig” (J. S. Bach-Stiftung St. Gallen)
• [1724] Principio da Johannes-Passion BWV 245 (Gardiner)
• [1726] J. S. Bach: Choral “Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder” (aus BWV 56)
• [1727] J. S. Bach: Motette “Jesu, meine Freude” BWV 227
• [ca. 1730] Bach: preludio da suite para laúde BWV 995 (Xavier Díaz-Latorre)
• [1731] J. S. Bach: cantata BWV 140, “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme”
• [1742] Bach: Praeludium und Fuge gis-Moll, BWV 887 (Fernando De Luca, Cembalo)
• [unknown] Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf, BWV 1092 (Leonardo Antonio Di Chiara; Bart Jacobs)
• [date, and even author, disputed] Toccata e Fuga BWV 565

G. F. Handel (1685 – 1759)

• [1711] Rinaldo (Handel): “Lascia ch’io pianga” (Miah Persson, soprano)
• [1739] Saul (Handel): “Such haughty beauties” (Andreas Scholl, countertenor)
• [1739] Israel in Egypt (Handel): “He smote all the first-born of Egypt” and other excerpts (Monteverdichor Würzburg)
• [1742] Messiah (Handel): “But who may abide…” (Emma Kirkby, soprano)
• [1742] Messiah (Handel): “Comfort ye, my people” e “Every valley shall be exalted” (Paul Elliott, tenor)
• [1750] Theodora (Handel): “Deeds of kindness” (Nicholas Spanos, countertenor)

Late Baroque (ca. 1700 – 1760) miscellanea

• Robert de Visée: chaconne “en g sol re ut, tierce majeur” (Xavier Díaz-Latorre, theorbo)
• Weiss: fantasía en “dó menor” (Xavier Díaz-Latorre, laúde; Penélope Maravalhas, laúde; Julian Bream, guitar; et al. )
• Francesco Durante: Toccata in re minore (Fernando De Luca, cravo)
• Mattheson: suite X en “mi menor” (Fernando De Luca, cravo)
• Graupner: suite GWV 150 (Fernando De Luca, cravo)
• Alessandro Scarlatti: Variazioni sulla Follia (Béatrice Martin)
• Alessandro Scarlatti: Variazioni sulla Follia (Ruggero Laganà, cravo)
• Lotti: “Crucifixus” a 8
• Alessandro Marcello: concerto para oboe en “re menor”
• Vivaldi: “Nisi Dominus” RV 608 cantado por Andreas Scholl
• Vivaldi: Magnificat RV 611
• Pitoni: “Cantate Domino”
• Carl Friedrich Abel: sonata in D minor (Marianne Muller, viola da gamba)
• Carl Friedrich Abel: Allegro in D minor for viola da gamba WKO 208 (Shirley Edith Hunt; Valentin Tournet)

Scores

• Bach works (Kim Eun Ho)
• Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (einam.com)
• Bach-Quellendatenbank
• Choral Public Domain Library
• IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
• Indiana University Online Musical Scores
• Mutopia Project
• Tomás Luis de Victoria (Nancho Álvarez)
• Werner Icking Music Archive

Some radios with “classical music” on the internet

• Amadeus (Argentina)
• Bayern 4 Klassik (Bayerischer Rundfunk, München)
• BBC Radio 3
• Deutschlandradio Kultur (Köln)
• France Musique
• HR2 Kultur (Hessicher Rundfunk, Frankfurt)
• Kultur Radio (Berlin)
• NDR Kultur (Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg)
• Radio 3 (RAI, Italia)
• Radio 4 (Nederland)
• Radio Clásica (RNE 2, España)
• Radio Stephansdom (Wien)

Blogs and other music links

• cesarsalgado1972 YouTube channel
• “Diz que não gosta de música clássica?” (blog de Fernando Vasconcelos)
• MuseScore (software libre de notación musical)
• “Nos vemos en el blog” (blog sobre Didáctica da Música, por Marian Domínguez)