The Renaissance Keyboard

Pour Un Plaisir: Songs And Tientos By Cabezon And His Contemporaries (2012)

Pour Un Plaisir: Songs And Tientos By Cabezon And His Contemporaries (2012)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 190 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | Catalog Number: 94351

During the mid-16th century in Spain, it became increasingly common for collections of music to include tablature that would enable performers of other polyphonic instruments to perform the repertoire. With the recent addition of chromatic strings, the harp was one such mechanism to benefit from this, and its presentation in this beautifully performed compilation of works offers a fascinating glimpse into the rich world of Iberian Renaissance music making.

VA - Panorama de la guitare (2018)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at April 2, 2018
VA - Panorama de la guitare (2018)

VA - Panorama de la guitare (2018)
Classical, Guitar | WEB FLAC (tracks) & front cover | 2.61 GB
Label: Erato | Tracks: 390 | Time: 18:39:13

A treasury of the classical guitar: as a solo and concerto instrument, and as a partner to other instruments, in music from Europe and Latin America that spans five centuries. This box assembles all releases from the ground-breaking series, Panorama de la guitare, which showcased luminaries of the guitar’s ‘new golden age’ in the 1960s and 70s. Most of these recordings are making their first appearance on CD, and all have been remastered from the original tapes in 24bit/96kHz, revealing the sound of the instrument in its true intimacy and beauty.
Thomas Tomkins - Barafostus Dreame - Carole Cerasi (2001) {Metronome MET CD 1049}

Thomas Tomkins - Barafostus Dreame - Carole Cerasi (2001) {Metronome MET CD 1049}
XLD rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 452 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 176 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 27 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2001 Metronome Recordings | MET CD 1049
Classical / Renaissance / Early Baroque / Period Instruments / Harpsichord / Virginals

The sound of plucked-string keyboard instruments, overtone-rich and complex, sometimes brilliant but rarely imposing, is one of the more distinctive and delightful artifacts of the Renaissance and Baroque, and if you enjoy the ringing resonance and sharply defined articulation of harpsichord and virginals, you'll find much pleasure in these performances of keyboard works of 17th-century English composer Thomas Tomkins.
Tasto Solo - Meyster ob allen Meystern: Conrad Paumann and the 15th century German Keyboard School (2009) {Passacaille PASS950}

Tasto Solo - Meyster ob allen Meystern: Conrad Paumann and the 15th century German Keyboard School (2009) {Passacaille PASS950}
XLD rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 293 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 136 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 10 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2009 Passacaille / Musica Vera | PASS 950
Classical / Renaissance / 15th Century / Early Music

The unique mission of this quartet is to perform music written for the keyboards of the Middle Ages on exact replicas of the Medieval clavisimbalum, organetto, and Gothic organ. Not only the content of Renaissance Music has been awarded so often, but the recording done by Jean-Daniel Noir is of very, very high quality. A winner in all respects.
Robert Woolley - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Works for Keyboard, Volume 2 (2009)

Robert Woolley - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Works for Keyboard, Vol. 2 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 389 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 149 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Renaissance/Baroque | Label: Chandos Chaconne | # CHAN0758 | Time: 01:03:41

As well as being one of the most famous organists and teachers of his time, Sweelinck was the last and most important composer of the musically rich golden era of the Netherlanders. His output comprises seventy works for keyboard, which represent some of the most richly imaginative music of the period, yet none was published during his lifetime. Robert Woolley has a large discography on Chandos, both as a soloist and as a member of The Purcell Quartet, the ensemble he co-founded in 1983. An internationally regarded authority on the music of this period, he broadcasts regularly for the BBC and has performed and recorded on many historic instruments. On this recording, he plays two instruments: a modern copy by Malcolm Rose of the Lodewijk Theewes claviorgan of 1579, a harpsichord-organ combination which has belonged to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London since 1890; and a rarely heard virginal, or muselar, by the firm Adlam Burnett, based on an instrument of Ioannes Ruckers from 1611 in the Finchcocks collection.
Leon Berben - Jacob & Hans Leo Hassler: Ich Gieng Einmal Spatieren (2005)

Leon Berben - Jacob & Hans Leo Hassler: Ich Gieng Einmal Spatieren (2005)
Classical | Eac. Flac, Image+Cue, Log | Scans | 552 MB
Label: RAMEE | TT: 79'37

Although harpsichordist Léon Berben's Ramée disc Ich Gieng Einmal Spatieren is credited to the composer "Hassler," it consists of work by two composers by that name, a long keyboard piece by the expected Hans Leo Hassler and all but one of the surviving keyboard pieces by his youngest brother, Jakob Hassler. These are played by Berben on a remarkable period instrument, a Franciscus Patavinus harpsichord built in 1561 and located in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. This keyboard provides just the right shade and color to the music of Jakob Hassler, a Prague-based musician beloved of eccentric Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II whose work culls together the influences of Venice and Germany while retaining some vestige of his own Franco-Flemish heritage.
Bruno Forst - Arte de Tanger: Gonzalo de Baena's New Keyboard Method 1540 (2018)

Bruno Forst - Arte de Tanger: Gonzalo de Baena's New Keyboard Method 1540 (2018)
EAC Rip | CD FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Scans | 655 MB
Label: Brilliant Classics – 95618 | Tracks: 46 | Time: 134:52 min
Classical, Organ, Renaissance

Gonzalo de Baena’s Arte novamente inventada pera aprender a tãger (Newly devised method for learning to play) was the first book of keyboard music ever printed on the Iberian Peninsula. Lost for centuries, it was rediscovered in 1992, and early music keyboardist Bruno Forst has since painstakingly decoded its unique tablature system and edited a modern edition, published in 2012.

Renaissance - Tuscany (Expanded & Remastered) (2001/2024)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 3, 2024
Renaissance - Tuscany (Expanded & Remastered) (2001/2024)

Renaissance - Tuscany (Expanded & Remastered) (2001/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 970 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 357 Mb | 02:34:36
Art Rock, Female Vocal | Label: Cherry Red Records, Esoteric Recordings

New expanded 3CD edition of the 2001 Album by Renaissance. Includes to bonus CDs of ‘In the Land of the Rising Sun – Live in Japan 2001’.

Andrea Vivanet - Sweelinck: Keyboard Works (2024)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 21, 2024
Andrea Vivanet - Sweelinck: Keyboard Works (2024)

Andrea Vivanet - Sweelinck: Keyboard Works (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 230 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 139 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:59:24
Classical | Label: Piano Classics

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) was one of the most influential composers of the Late-Renaissance and Early-Baroque. He was organist of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam for 44 years. His influence was enormous, he attracted composers from many European countries to Amsterdam to learn his art. Even the great Johann Sebastian Bach acknowledged his superior craftsmanship. Sweelinck's keyboard music is divided into 4 groups: Fantasias, Toccatas, Chorale variations (sacred works), Variations on Dances (secular works). Traditionally Dances were performed on the harpsichord, Chorale Variations on the organ.
Duo Æoline - Clair Obscur: Oeuvres du 16e et du 17e siècle pour flûte et orgue (2023)

Duo Æoline - Clair Obscur: Oeuvres du 16e et du 17e siècle pour flûte et orgue (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 281 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 148 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:04
Classical | Label: Claves Records

Charlotte Schneider and Guy-Baptiste Jaccottet have been exploring since 2017 the multiple sounds offered by their combined instruments. These curious and playful musicians explore a repertoire stretching from the 16th to the 18th century, transcribing and arranging pieces for their duo. As a result, their music lies at the crossroads of historically informed performance practice and the concrete reality of instruments and places.