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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Mass & Gloria
Album - 12 Tracks - Released April 25, 2025

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Accentus
AlmaViva Música
Andrew Staples
Antonio Florio
Arcangelo Corelli
Attilio Cremonesi
Bach Collegium San Diego
Camille Delaforge
Cantata Collective
Cappella Mediterranea
Carine Tinney
Carlo Gesualdo
Carlotta Colombo
Chalumeau
Christian Curnyn
Christian Schmitt
Dionysos Now
Elisabetta Gesuato
Emmanuel Resche-Caserta
Ensemble Reflektor
Fantasticus
Fernando De Luca
Fiona McGown
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli
Francesca Torelli
Fretwork
Gabriele Pro
Gaétan Jarry
Giacomo Carissimi
Gilles Binchois
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Gabrieli
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Goteborg Baroque
Gunar Letzbor
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Heinrich Schütz
Händelfestspielorchester Halle
I Solisti Veneti
Insula Orchestra
Iona Brown
Jacquet of Mantua
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Johanna Winkel
John Dowland
Jonathan Sells
Joseph Middleton
Julian Perkins
Justin Doyle
Kari Turunen
Laurence Equilbey
Leonardo García-Alarcón
Les Kapsber'girls
Lionel Meunier
London Handel Players
Luca Sartore
Luca Scandali
Magdalena Consort
Magnus Kjellson
Manuel Blasco De Nebra
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marguerite Louise
Marianne Piketty
Marin Marais
Martin Lehmann
Martin Sieghart
Mathilde Vialle
Mauro Borgioni
Michaela Rózsa Růžičková
Michel Corboz
Miguel Rincón
Nicholas Spanos
Nicky Spence
Orlando Gibbons
Pandolfis Consort
Paul Agnew
Pygmalion
Quartetto Vanvitelli
Real Câmara
Roberta Mameli
Ross Pople
Ruben Valenzuela
Samuel Scheidt
Schola Antiqua of Chicago
Seicento Stravagante
Simone El Oufir Pierini
Sophie Junker
Stephane Fuget
Sébastien Daucé
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
The Monteverdi Choir
Thibaut Roussel
Thomas Morley
Tomaso Albinoni
Vox Luminis
Wrocław Baroque Orchestra
Yasunori Imamura
Zachary Wilder
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Arcangelo Corelli
Michaela Rózsa Růžičková
Adrian Chandler
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Tomaso Albinoni
VOCES8
Miriam van Steeg
Anna Holbling
Aradia Ensemble
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Petr Skvor
The Monteverdi Choir
Kevin Mallon
Helmut Müller-Brühl
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Accademia I Filarmonici
Cecilia Bartoli
Christina Pluhar
Kay Johannsen
Grace Davidson
Alberto Martini
Susanne Fröhlich
Sebastian Comberti
Simon Preston
Pieter Jan Leusink
Léon Mignard
Iona Brown
Trio Serena
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Andrew Manze
Raymond Leppard
Eugène Arnaud
Simon Wynberg
Marco Decimo
Nicol Matt
Lucy van Dael
Stephen Layton
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
John Dowland
Wolfgang Sobotka
Atwood Quartet
Musica Bohemica
Remo Giazotto
Andrew Watkinson
Robin Jeffrey
Laurence Equilbey
Karl Münchinger
Marin Marais
Candida Thompson
Richard Edlinger
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Andrea Marcon
Ludwig Güttler
Hespèrion XXI
Michel Corboz
Patrick Peire
Accentus
Hieronymus Praetorius
Gregorio Allegri
Marta Zalewska
Lionel Meunier
Béla Nagy
Vox Luminis
Jonathan Cohen
Olga Watts
Les Frivolités Parisiennes
Orfeó Català
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz
Nicola Barbon
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Benedetti Baroque Orchestra
Ross Pople
Thomas Gould
Leslie Pearson
Julia Faulkner
Peter Phillips
Heinrich Schütz
Paul Dyer
Jost Michaels
Vincenzo Crimaco
Michael Leighton Jones
Stefano Montanari
Leonardo García-Alarcón
Ian Watson
Bohdan Warchal
Mark Bennett
Vojtěch Semerád
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Sabine Devieilhe
Chiara Castelli
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Cappella Amsterdam
Robert King
Grete Pedersen
Jörg Faerber
Cappella Mariana
Antony Pitts
Gabriela Krčková
Bernhard Forck