Jan Dismas Zelenka - Officium Defunctorum

Jan Dismas Zelenka - Officium Defunctorum
EAC RIP | FLAC + CUE + LOG | HQ Scans | 443mb
Accent | Recorded: 2010 | Released: 2011
Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704 - Vaclav Luks

Alessandro Striggio - Missa "Ecco sì beato giorno" (including bonus DVD)

Alessandro Striggio - Missa "Ecco sì beato giorno" (including bonus DVD)
EAC RIP | FLAC + CUE + LOG | HQ Scans | 409mb (+ 1,3gb DVD)
Decca | Recorded: 2010 | Released: 2011
I Fagiolini - Robert Hollingworth

 

Celebrating the rediscovery of a long-lost mass in forty parts - a feast of Renaissance choral music from Italy and England, the album (and bonus DVD) reveals a work by the Italian, Alessandro Striggio – believed lost until the recent discovery of vocal parts, in Paris. Striggio travelled extensively to the courts of Europe and it was probably a performance during his visit to Elizabethan England in 1567 that inspired Tallis to write "Spem in alium", which is performed here with rarely heard instrumental accompaniment and the benefit of a major piece of textual change reinforcing the message of forgiveness.  

Baroque Bohemia & Beyond Vol.5 - Music by Dittersdorf, Stamic, Kallick, Skroup, Neruda

Baroque Bohemia & Beyond Vol.5 - Music by Dittersdorf, Stamic, Kallick, Skroup, Neruda
EAC RIP | FLAC + CUE + LOG | HQ Scans | 424mb
Alto | Recorded: 2010 | Released: 2010
Czech Chamber Philharmonic - Petr Chromcak

The fifth volume in a very compelling series covering the huge flowering of composing talent that originated in Bohemia in the period preceding and contemporaneous to Haydn and Mozart.These composers laid the groundwork for the masterpieces of the classical era.