Philip Pickett and the New London Consort created a sensation in the early music world of the 1980s with this sublime recording of dances from Michael Praetorius' Terpsichore (1612); the album was so highly regarded, these exceptional performers eventually received praise in the online New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians for their "majestic rendering" of these quintessential Renaissance pieces. A colleague of David Munrow, Pickett was one of the leading figures in the movement for authentic performance practice, and ...
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Philip Pickett and the New London Consort created a sensation in the early music world of the 1980s with this sublime recording of dances from Michael Praetorius' Terpsichore (1612); the album was so highly regarded, these exceptional performers eventually received praise in the online New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians for their "majestic rendering" of these quintessential Renaissance pieces. A colleague of David Munrow, Pickett was one of the leading figures in the movement for authentic performance practice, and his thorough study of German instruments from the time enabled him to re-create with reasonable fidelity the sonorities and inflections of the music, as it credibly might have been heard. The New London Consort, numbering 40 players for this recording, presented Pickett the fullest possible range of period instruments indicated in Praetorius' Syntagma musicum, so he was able to select from a wide assortment of strings, winds, and percussion, and notably included shawms, rackets, and...
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