TELEMANN
Cantatas & chamber music with recorder Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano) & Stefano Bagliano (recorder and concert master) / Collegium Pro Musica [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] Born in Magdeburg in 1681, Georg Philipp Telemann rejected a vocation in law, insisting that music was to be his focus. An organiser of concerts and a publisher of musical scores, he was a highly versatile entrepreneur as well as a throughouly... |
JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ
Quantz: Concertos & Trio Sonatas with Recorder Collegium Pro Musica, Stefano Bagliano [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Johann Joachim Quantz (1697‐1773) was a composer, theorist, flutist and flute maker of great name and fame. Despite being of humble origin he quickly rose to great eminence, becoming a personal friend and court composer of Frederick The Great, living... |
FAURE
Piano Quartet No 1 / Piano Trio The Pro Arte Piano Quartet [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] The Pro Arte Piano Quartet was made up of leading London-based instrumentalists, many of whom also played in the Melos Ensemble of London. Pianist Lamar Crowson was, and remains, one of the great chamber music pianists of all time (and a soloist in... |
LASSUS
Lassus - Music For Holy Week Pro Cantione Antiqua / Bruno Turner / Mark Brown [ Regis Records / CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] "..glorious Aurora Lucis Rutilat.. Mark Brown's fine performance in the Requiem.." (Penguin Guide 3 stars) |
SCHUTZ
11 Motets Pro Cantione Antiqua London Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Restoration Academy Edgar Fleet, conductor [ Regis Records / CD - released 2/Jun/2004 ] Penguin Guide 3 stars |
WILLIAM BYRD / JOHN TAVENER
Four Part Mass / 4 Motets / Alternatim Pieces Sacred Polyphony / Pro Cantione Antiqua / Bruno Turner & Mark Brown, directors [ Regis Records / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "..sung with conviction and understanding.." - Organists Review |
GIOVANNI SAMMARTINI
Sammartini: Recorder concertos & sonatas Stefano Bagliano (recorder & conductor) / collegium Pro Musica [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] "A bountifully filled disc of splendid music in first-rate performances … memorable melodies and imaginative harmonies." (MusicWeb July 2011) |
LEOS JANACEK
Janáček: Sinfonietta / 4 Opera Preludes / Taras Bulba (recorded 1960-62) Charles Mackerras, Pro Arte Orchestra / Karel Ančerl, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra [ Alto / CD - released 10/Feb/2020 ] "Charles Mackerras has shown himself one of the finest Janáček conductors. His readings convey a sense of burning belief in and love of Janáček's music; they are well prepared; yet it is as if the strangeness and beauty of the music were being... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
English Madrigals: From The Oxford University Press Book of English Madrigals Pro Cantione Antiqua, Philip Ledger (director) [ Alto / CD - released 17/Nov/2008 ] 22 English madrigals by Wilbye, Tomkins, Weelkes, Farnaby, Gibbons, Byrd, East, Ward, Bennet, Bateson, Kirbye, Farmer & Greaves |
TRADITIONAL
Gregorian Feast: Chants for Festive Days Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] "Mellifluous singing of the plainsong confirms PCAs fluent versatility.. impeccable ensemble, manly tone and value for money" - BBC Music |
Pro Cantione Antiqua
Traditional Glees & Madrigals [ Alto / CD - released 9/Aug/2010 ] This new collection, compiled from outstanding recordings by Engleand's renowned Pro Cantione Antiqua, new collection to showcase traditional Glees to the growing young market of singing and glee clubs, takes a fascinating look at the traditional... |
PALESTRINA
Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet Book IV for 5-6 voices Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner [ ALTO / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] "The present, 4th setting was discovered only in the 19th Century, and is recorded here complete for the first time….serene but poignant simplicity which Bruno Turner captures admirably with spacious tempi .. the quality of the singing from a group... |
LASSUS
Lamentations of Jeremiah Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "..performances under Bruno Turner are expressive & vital... recording... spacious & warm..." (Penguin Guide 3 stars) |
ORLANDO LASSUS
Requiem & Music for Easter Sunday Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner & Mark Brown [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner & Mark Brown |
PURCELL
Purcell in Court ...and Tavern ! Pro Cantione Antiqua / Collegeum Aureum / Mark Brown [ ALTO / CD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] "Careful listening will teach you much about the essence of early sixteenth century polyphony." |
GRIGORIO ALLEGRI / THOMAS TALLIS / WILLIAM BYRD & Others
Allegri: Miserere / Renaissance Polyphony and Consort Songs Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown (director) [ Alto / CD - released 10/May/2010 ] Allegri's most popular work - a world-class performance |
SCHUTZ
The Great Motets Pro Cantione Antiqua / Edgar Fleet [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
Palestrina: Best Masses James Griffett, Neil Jenkins, Ian Partridge, Gordon Jones, Christopher Keyte, Stephen Roberts / Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown [ ALTO / CD - released 16/Sep/2013 ] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a long-lasting influence on the development of church and secular... |
TRADITIONAL
Medieval Christmas Pro Cantione Antiqua / Mark Brown, with English Medieval Wind Ensemble [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] "A spicy Christmas feast, from a time when classic and folk music mixed. There was little difference in the popular music of the church or the tavern! Often more Chaucer than Christian… A lively record to sit back and enjoy! The attraction of the... |
Pro Cantione Antiqua/Brown
Palestrina: Missa Brevis/Missa [ Alto / CD - released 16/Apr/2012 ] Lauda Sion is, in Pro Cantione Antiqua's sober and elegant account, hardly less beautiful than the Brevis…slightly plangent countertenor complements the minor inflexions of this major-mode work….but there is nothing tentative in the delivery. The... |