Music from the Time of Tilman Riemenschneider offers a pleasant hour of mostly instrumental (and mostly recorder-based) short pieces of the Renaissance for those who desire such a thing. The two German groups involved, Il Curioso and the Hedos-Ensemble, play engagingly, and recorder player Bernhard Böhm gets in some very fancy fingerwork on a few more soloistic pieces. There are nice contrasts between pieces played by a group of recorders and those featuring the louder outdoor instruments of the period, such as the crumhorn ...
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Music from the Time of Tilman Riemenschneider offers a pleasant hour of mostly instrumental (and mostly recorder-based) short pieces of the Renaissance for those who desire such a thing. The two German groups involved, Il Curioso and the Hedos-Ensemble, play engagingly, and recorder player Bernhard Böhm gets in some very fancy fingerwork on a few more soloistic pieces. There are nice contrasts between pieces played by a group of recorders and those featuring the louder outdoor instruments of the period, such as the crumhorn and shawm. Purchasers get an additional bonus: the music included here has not been recorded terribly often. Some of it comes from a pair of the earliest music publications, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton printed by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice in 1501 and the 18 basses danse garnies de recoupes, one of the collections issued by Pierre Attaingnant in 1530. Other pieces are drawn from slightly earlier hand-compiled German collections: the Glogauer Liederbuch (ca. 1480), the Lochamer...
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