Secret History - Josquin / Victoria
John Potter (tenor) and Anna Maria Friman (soprano) with vihuelas and viola da gamba perform Victoria's Missa Surge propera and motets by Josquin in versions modelled on Renaissance lute arrangements. Recorded at Propstei St. Gerold, produced by Manf…
Neharót - Betty Olivero / Tigran Mansurian / Eitan Steinberg
Kim Kashkashian plays works by Betty Olivero, Tigran Mansurian and Eitan Steinberg, with the Münchener Kammerorchester, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Kuss Quartett, Robyn Schulkowsky and Mansurian, recorded 2006-2008 in Munich, Poznań and Boston.
Thomas Tallis / Christopher Tye / John Sheppard - Audivi vocem
The Hilliard Ensemble sing sacred polyphony by Thomas Tallis, Christopher Tye and John Sheppard, built around movements of Tye's Missa sine nomine. Recorded March 2005 at Propstei St. Gerold, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Stella Maris
Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum) sing 12th- and 13th-century English and Notre Dame pieces with Sungji Hong's Missa Lumen de lumine (2002). Recorded February 2005 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Gurdjieff & Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns & Dances
Anja Lechner (cello) and Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano) play music by G.I. Gurdjieff arranged for their duo, with Tsabropoulos's own pieces after Byzantine hymns. Recorded December 2003 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Soir, dit-elle
Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum) sing Leonel Power's Missa Alma redemptoris mater alongside new works by Gavin Bryars, Ivan Moody, Andrew Smith and Oleh Harkavyy, recorded in April 2003 at Propstei St. Ger…
Morimur
Bach's Partita in D minor BWV 1004 played by Christoph Poppen on baroque violin, interleaved with chorales sung by The Hilliard Ensemble after Helga Thoene's analysis; recorded September 2000 at Propstei St. Gerold, Austria.
Words of the Angel
Debut album of the Norwegian vocal trio Trio Mediaeval: the 14th-century Messe de Tournai with English polyphony, Italian laude and Ivan Moody's title piece. Produced by John Potter, recorded December 1999 in Gönningen.
Officium
Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) improvising with the Hilliard Ensemble on sacred vocal music from Gregorian chant to Morales, Dufay and Pérotin, recorded in September 1993 at the Propstei St. Gerold, Austria.
Codex Speciálnik
Sacred polyphony from a Prague manuscript of about 1500, sung by the Hilliard Ensemble (David James, Rogers Covey-Crump, John Potter, Gordon Jones), recorded in January 1993 in the Stadtkirche, Gönningen.
Henryk Górecki, Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, Gavin Bryars, Sarah Leonard, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
Górecki: O Domina Nostra / Satie / Milhaud / BryarsSoprano Sarah Leonard and organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent in Górecki's O Domina Nostra, Satie's Messe des pauvres, two Milhaud preludes and Gavin Bryars's The Black River. Recorded June 1992, Hofkirche Luzern.
Giya Kancheli: Vom Winde beweint / Alfred Schnittke: Konzert für Viola und Orchester
Giya Kancheli's Vom Winde beweint and Alfred Schnittke's Viola Concerto, with Kim Kashkashian and conductor Dennis Russell Davies, Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn (Nov 1991) and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken (May 1986).
Perotin
Organa and conductus by Perotin and anonymous composers of the Notre-Dame school (c. 1200), sung by the Hilliard Ensemble directed by Paul Hillier, recorded in September 1988 at Boxgrove Priory, Sussex.