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Baptiste Romain, director of the ensemble Le Miroir de Musique, has just been appointed professor at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. To mark this occasion, he enriches the 'Instruments' series on...

Ciconia / Santenay Think Subtilior CD

In his Musick's Monument of 1676, Thomas Mace described in great detail numerous aspects of contemporary musical life in London. This volume evokes all the characteristics of English music, going...

Couperin / Dominos / Malgoire Complete Sonatas CD1. La Convalescente (Premiere) 2. La Pucelle 3. La Steinquerque 4. La Sultane (Sonate en Quatuor) 5. L Astr?e 6. La Superbe 7. La Visionnaire

Careful examination of the manuscript sources of the harpsichord pieces of the ancestors of Francois Couperin 'Le Grand' reveals that nowhere are these compositions indisputably attributed to one of...

Couperin Les Muses Naissantes CD

Sigismondo d'India has a twin", a "mirror" in music: Claudio Monteverdi. Both men developed, in parallel, a style that radically changed the history of music. A style inherited from composers such as...

Dauvergne / Namur Chamber Choir / Van Waas Venitienne CD1. La V?netienne

De Lassus / Alarcon,Leonardo Garcia Roland De Lassus: Canticum Canticorum CD

RICERCAR now celebrates it's 35th anniversary with a homage to the greatest Flemish composer of the Renaissance. The works of Cipriano de Rore (1515/16 - 1565) remained extremely popular until well...

De Sayve / La Fenice / Namur Chamber / Tubery Mass For Consecration CD1. Kyrie 2. Gloria in Excelsis Deo 3. Credo in Unum Deum 4. Sanctus / Elevatio: Sonata Piano E Grave Per L'elevatione 5. Agnus Dei

Following the two volumes of the Guide des Instruments, RICERCAR goes further into the knowledge of several instruments and their specific repertoire. It was in 1817 that the instrument maker Halary...