Music in Europe at The Time of The Renaissance

The inclusion of the one surviving Mass by the Flemish composer Gery de Ghersem, most of whose music perished in the fire which accompanied the Lisbon earthquake, was an added incentive to listen to this before the other CDs and DVDs which arrived in the same batch. In the event, neither the music nor the performances disappointed and the recording and documentation provided added enjoyment.l

The world of music has some resemblance with the natural world. Just as happens in nature with living beings, but at a much quicker pace, musical instruments, genres and styles are created, offered to the public, and then may succeed or not in conquering a place in the musical world. Success and popularity, furthermore, can be fleeting or stable, and their object, in turn, may remain more or less the same for a long time, or evolve. It is not always clear why a particular instrument or genre gains recognition, and another does not; instruments with beautiful timbres fail to survive, and others which are not substantially better become extremely widespread.

Released in March 1978, the album featured the song “Northern Lights”, a Top Ten hit single in the UK and Europe, and was a successful hit album in the UK, USA and Canada. By the late 1970s the line-up of highly gifted vocalist Annie Haslam, Michael Dunford (acoustic and electric guitars), John Tout (keyboards, vocals), Jon Camp (bass, acoustic & electric guitars, vocals) and Terry Sullivan (drums, percussion) had recorded a series of acclaimed albums that fused classical music influences with progressive rock and had earned a loyal following in Europe and had enjoyed wider success in the United States and Japan.

The Story of Beat-Club 1965-1972 (Volumes 1-3) [24x DVD9 Untouched]
MPEG-2, PAL 720x576 (4:3) | AC3 Stereo, 48 kHz, 192 kbps | Country/Year: Europe 2008
Label/Cat#: ARD Video, Radio Bremen # no cat | Size: 151 GB | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Rock | Style: Classic Rock, Blues Rock, Art/Prog Rock, Psychedelic

Beat-Club was a German music program that ran from September 1965 to December 1972. It was broadcast from Bremen, Germany on Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen, the national public TV channel of the ARD, and produced by one of its members, Radio Bremen, later co-produced by WDR following the 38th episode. It is notable for being the first German show to be based around popular music, and featured artists such as The Equals, Grateful Dead, Zager and Evans, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Ten Years After, Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Black Sabbath, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys, Chicago, The Doors, Kraftwerk and Robin Gibb in its seven-year run. In 1972, it was replaced by Musikladen.

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - The Complete Psalms - van der Kamp, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam (2012) {12CD Set Glossa GCD922407}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 3.12 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 1.72 Gb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 106 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2012 Glossa Music | GCD922407
Classical / Renaissance / Sacred

Without doubt, Het Sweelinck Monument, the ‘Sweelinck Monument’, has been one of the most important recording projects of recent years. Recognized as such by Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands herself at a ceremony celebrated in November 2010 at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, this involved the entire vocal output of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – the most important Dutch composer ever – being recorded for the first time. This project, published by Glossa in the form of six book-discs in The Netherlands, culminates now for the international market with the release, in a 12-disc box set, of the 150 Psalms. Previously issued, it is worth pointing out, have been the Complete Secular Works (GCD 922401, 3 CDs) and the Cantiones Sacrae (GCD 922406, 2 CDs).

The third release from Grammy-nominated group Stile Antico in the critically acclaimed The Golden Renaissance trilogy, celebrating the 500th anniversary of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Thought to have been born around 3 February 1525, the Italian composer is considered one of the leading musicians of the late 16th century, with long-lasting influence on the development of church and secular music in Europe. The album is based around Palestrina’s famous Missa Papae Marcelli, the mass-setting in which he used a new style of polyphony and in doing so saved church music from being banned by the Catholic Church. Featuring a selection of motets honouring his time at the Papal Chapel in St Peter's, Rome and links with the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, and including his most well-known motet – Sicut cervus.

In 17th and 18th century New England, transplanted Englishmen like Daniel Read, Abraham Wood, and especially William Billings were composing beautiful but rough-hewn and distinctly American vocal music for use in what were called "singing schools." Far to the west and south, in what was then called New Spain and would later be called Mexico, natives and transplanted Spaniards were composing liturgical music of a richness and complexity that was worthy of the greatest cathedrals of Europe – and teaching their native converts to do the same. This disc showcases the works of two of 18th century Mexico's finest composers: the Mexican-born Manuel de Zumaya and the transplanted European Ignacio de Jerusalem. The latter is represented by a polychoral Mass in D Minor, a responsory, and a gorgeous Dixit Dominus setting written in six sections; from the former listeners have a setting of Jeremiah's lamentations, a breathtakingly complex solfeggio composition titled Sol-fa de Pedro, and the polychoral Celebren, Publiquen.