Best of The Renaissance - Pro Cantione Antiqua, Ulsamer Consort

Precursor to the Baroque era, the Renaissance period in music is generally placed around 1430-1600. This collection brings together both ‘learned’ as well as ‘dance’ music and interspersing the two forms on this compilation encapsulates the spirit of this rich period, stretching from anonymous compositions to the late works of William Byrd with their close attention to the setting of words.

JOHN DUNSTABLE: Veni, Sancte Spiritus
ANONYMOUS: Lamento di Tristano – Rotta
GUILLAUME DUFAY: Flos Florum
ANONYMOUS: Basse danse La Brosse – Tripla – Tourdion
GUILLAUME DUFAY: Alma redemptoris mater
FRANCESCO CANOVA DA MILANO: Fantasia
JOSQUIN DESPREZ: Déploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem ‘Nymphes des bois’
ANONYMOUS: Passamezzo d’Italye – Reprise – Gaillarde
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA: Super flumina Babylonis
JOHN DOWLAND: Fantasia
WILLIAM BYRD: Mass for three voices: Sanctus – Benedictus
THOMAS MORLEY: Pavane
HEINRICH ISAAC: Regina caeli laetare
ANTOINE BRUMEL: Noe Noe
ADRIAN WILLAERT: Ave Regina
ANONYMOUS: Basse danse La Magdalena
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDL: Ave Maria
FRANCESCO CANOVA DA MILANO: Pavana I/II
PHILIPPE DE MONTE: Laudate Dominium
ALONSO MUDARRA: Fantasía que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico
ORLANDO DI LASSO: Miserere mei Deus: Gloria Patri

Pro Cantione Antiqua
Bruno Turner
Ulsamer-Collegium
Josef Ulsamer
Konrad Ragossnig, renaissance lute
Dieter Kirsch, vihuela