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The historical significance of Ottaviano Petrucci (1466-1538) lies in the fact that he was the first to print a book of polyphony with movable type, and he was one of the first to print sheet music using the same technique. His first editions of Intavolature di Liuto (lute tablatures) included works by Francesco Spinacino, Joan Dalza and Franciscus Bossinensis, all featured on this CD.

"Ballads within a Dream" - »Balladen in einem Traum« heißt das neue Album von Hille Perl (Gambe) und Andreas Arend (Theorbe). Mit Clare Wilkinson (Sopran) und Veronika Skuplik (Violine) haben sie ein so magisches wie unterhaltsames Panorama englischer Barockmusik eingespielt. Dabei treffen Folksongs und Balladen auf Lieder von Henry Purcell sowie Lautenlieder und solistische Improvisationen für Theorbe auf virtuose Streichermusik. Konzipiert hat das Album Andreas Arend, der bereits mit dem Bratscher Nils Mönkemeyer ein besonderes Barock-Album aufgenommen hat.

This is an unusual recording of William Byrd's choral music for several reasons.

Listening to music is always a journey for the listener but with the Ensemble Cicerone's new Genuin Classics CD, the composers were already adventurers people who, in the Baroque era, took to the dangerous roads on land and water all over Europe and ensured that musical styles met and mixed. The musicians of the ensemble, which bears in its name the great travel guidebooks Cicerone, teach at the Mozarteum and at the Cologne University of Music: they let the intricate paths of emotions arise before our ears in the wonderful music of Händel, Muffat, Telemann, and others and thus cast a spell on us.

Listening to music is always a journey for the listener but with the Ensemble Cicerone's new Genuin Classics CD, the composers were already adventurers people who, in the Baroque era, took to the dangerous roads on land and water all over Europe and ensured that musical styles met and mixed. The musicians of the ensemble, which bears in its name the great travel guidebooks Cicerone, teach at the Mozarteum and at the Cologne University of Music: they let the intricate paths of emotions arise before our ears in the wonderful music of Händel, Muffat, Telemann, and others and thus cast a spell on us.

Hardly any biographical information about the composer Martin Christian Schultze has been handed down to us. On the cover of the Trattamento dellharmonia, which was engraved and published in Paris in 1773, we find his name with the initials 'M.C.' and 'D.B.' ('M.C. Schultze D.B.'), which according to the RISM signifies 'Martin Christian Schultze from Berlin.' The six symphonies contained in this collection may be understood as harmonic treatises. They have been written very much in the Italian style, and in them we find very many polyrhythmic elements running through all the movements for example, frequent triplets against sixteenths. In addition, at the time Schultze must have had an outstanding gambist by his side who was able to render this extremely demanding gamba part. The violin part with many double stops and virtuosic passages likewise presupposes some talent. By contrast, the flute part more probably would have been written for an amateur. Here these pieces are interpreted by the Klingekunst Ensemble, whose members base their work on well-founded occupation with historical performance practice but also always assign foremost importance to vibrant musical communication.