Early Music

Early music encompasses a broad range of styles from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century, characterized by complex harmonies, intricate counterpoint, and ornamentation. Emerging from the medieval Gregorian chant tradition, early music evolved through the Renaissance and Baroque periods, featuring instruments such as the lute, harpsichord, and viola da gamba. Composers of the era crafted masterpieces marked by expressive melodies, ornate decoration, and dramatic contrasts, often for royal courts, churches, and opera houses. This genre had a profound impact on Western classical music, influencing later styles like Classical and Romantic music. Notable for its use of period-specific instruments and performance practices, early music is distinct from later classical music in its emphasis on historical authenticity and nuanced expressiveness.

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A Nocte Temporis
Adrian Chandler
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Alfredo Bernardini
Amarcord
Andrew Watkinson
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
Bertrand Cuiller
Bojan Čičić
Camerata Øresund
Cappella Mediterranea
Carlo Gesualdo
Charles Cole
Chiara Castelli
Choir of Girton College, Cambridge
Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge
Coline Dutilleul
Corul National de Camera Madrigal - Marin Constantin
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Céline Frisch
Dragonetti
Edoardo Torbianelli
Ensemble ConSerto Musico
Ensemble Reflektor
Estienne Battier
Eva Saladin
Fabio Bonizzoni
Felix Koch
Filippo Pantieri
Francesco Maria Mancarella
Fretwork
Gerlinde Sämann
Gilles Binchois
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Grace Davidson
Gregorio Allegri
Guiseppe
Harriet Burns
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Heinrich Schütz
Helen Charlston
Helmut Walcha
Hugh Cutting
I Solisti Veneti
Jean Barrière
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Johannes Keller
Johannes Winkler
John Wilson
Jonathan Cohen
Judith van Wanroij
Justin Doyle
Justin Taylor
Jörg Faerber
Kantos Chamber Choir
Kenneth Weiss
Kevin Mallon
La Palatine
Le Caravansérail
Leonardo García-Alarcón
Liliia Kysil
Lisette van de Pavoordt
London Oratory Schola Cantorum
Luca Sartore
Léon Mignard
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marcello Cardillo
Marianne Croux
Martin Lehmann
Michele Mascitti
Miriam van Steeg
Musikkollegium Winterthur
Nicky Spence
Nicola Barbon
Nicolò Balducci
Orlando Gibbons
Orpharion
Patricia Petibon
Paul Appleby
Peter Phillips
Philipp Johann Thimm
Pierpaola Porqueddu
Pulcinella Orchestra
Roberto González-Monjas
Romabarocca Ensemble
Simone Vallerotonda
Skip Sempé
Stephen Layton
Tamar Halperin
The Gesualdo Six
The Illyria Consort
Tomaso Albinoni
Trio Serena
VOCES8
Valentin Tournet
Vittorio Filloramo
Yoann Moulin
Zachary Wilder
西山まりえ
Michaela Rózsa Růžičková
Adrian Chandler
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Tomaso Albinoni
VOCES8
Anna Holbling
Miriam van Steeg
Grace Davidson
Jean-François Paillard
Petr Skvor
The Monteverdi Choir
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Helmut Müller-Brühl
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Cecilia Bartoli
Christina Pluhar
Andrea Marcon
Simon Preston
Kay Johannsen
Sebastian Comberti
Susanne Fröhlich
Iona Brown
Léon Mignard
Trio Serena
Kevin Mallon
Raymond Leppard
Alberto Martini
Accademia I Filarmonici
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Andrew Manze
Marco Decimo
Aradia Ensemble
Eugène Arnaud
Lucy van Dael
Simon Wynberg
Nicol Matt
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Stephen Layton
Wolfgang Sobotka
Leslie Pearson
Marin Marais
Atwood Quartet
Musica Bohemica
Pieter Jan Leusink
Andrew Watkinson
Remo Giazotto
Olga Watts
Laurence Equilbey
Karl Münchinger
Lionel Meunier
Robin Jeffrey
Hespèrion XXI
Ludwig Güttler
Richard Edlinger
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Julia Faulkner
Candida Thompson
Michel Corboz
Hieronymus Praetorius
Gregorio Allegri
Marta Zalewska
Accentus
Patrick Peire
Vox Luminis
Béla Nagy
Jonathan Cohen
Leonardo García-Alarcón
Les Frivolités Parisiennes
Byzantine Renaissance
Orfeó Català
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz
Nicola Barbon
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Thomas Gould
Ross Pople
Heinrich Schütz
Paul Dyer
Peter Phillips
Benedetti Baroque Orchestra
Vincenzo Crimaco
Jost Michaels
Cappella Amsterdam
Ian Watson
Stefano Montanari
Michael Leighton Jones
Bohdan Warchal
Vojtěch Semerád
Sabine Devieilhe
Jean-Claude Malgoire
The Gesualdo Six
Robert King
Mark Bennett
Grete Pedersen
Micaela Comberti
Chiara Castelli
Jörg Faerber
Sébastien Daucé
Cappella Mariana
I Solisti Veneti
Gabriela Krčková