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
Abchordis Ensemble
Adrian Chandler
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Alexander Gergelyfi
Alfonso X El Sabio
Alfredo Bernardini
Amarcord
Andrea Buccarella
Andrzej Kosendiak
Anna Besson
Benjamin Perrot
Bernhard Forck
Bojan Čičić
Camerata Øresund
Charles Cole
Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge
Coline Dutilleul
Corul National de Camera Madrigal - Marin Constantin
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Céline Frisch
Edoardo Torbianelli
Ensemble ConSerto Musico
Eva Saladin
Felix Koch
Filippo Pantieri
Florence Bolton
Francesco Barsanti
Francesco Maria Mancarella
Georg Nigl
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Grace Davidson
Gregorio Allegri
Guiseppe
Harriet Burns
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Heinrich Schütz
Helmut Walcha
Hugh Cutting
I Solisti Ambrosiani
Israel Golani
Ivano Zanenghi
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Joanna Forbes L'Estrange
Johannes Keller
Johannes Winkler
John Stanley
Jonathan Cohen
Justin Doyle
Jörg Faerber
Kantos Chamber Choir
Kevin Mallon
La Palatine
La Rêveuse
Les Lunaisiens
Liliia Kysil
Lisette van de Pavoordt
London Oratory Schola Cantorum
Luca Ranieri
Luca Sartore
Maddalena Del Gobbo
Manfred Cordes
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marcello Cardillo
Maria Bayley
Marin Marais
Mario Stefano Tonda
Michele Mascitti
Mignarda
Nicky Spence
Nicolò Balducci
Paul Agnew
Paul Appleby
Peter Phillips
Philipp Johann Thimm
Pierpaola Porqueddu
Pulcinella Orchestra
Raffaella Milanesi
Roberto González-Monjas
Romabarocca Ensemble
Salvatore Carchiolo
Simone El Oufir Pierini
Simone Stella
Solomon's Knot
Sophia Schambeck
Stephen Layton
Suzi Digby
Tamar Halperin
The Gesualdo Six
The Illyria Consort
Tomaso Albinoni
Ursina Maria Braun
Uzielli
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Valerio Losito
Vittorio Filloramo
Walter Testolin
Wroclaw Baroque Ensemble
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
Jean-Baptiste Lully
The Monteverdi Choir
Helmut Müller-Brühl
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Cecilia Bartoli
Christina Pluhar
Andrea Marcon
Simon Preston
Kay Johannsen
Susanne Fröhlich
Sebastian Comberti
Léon Mignard
Iona Brown
Trio Serena
Kevin Mallon
Alberto Martini
Raymond Leppard
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Accademia I Filarmonici
Andrew Manze
Eugène Arnaud
Marco Decimo
Aradia Ensemble
Simon Wynberg
Lucy van Dael
Nicol Matt
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Stephen Layton
Leslie Pearson
Marin Marais
Wolfgang Sobotka
Atwood Quartet
Musica Bohemica
Pieter Jan Leusink
Andrew Watkinson
Olga Watts
Remo Giazotto
Karl Münchinger
Laurence Equilbey
Lionel Meunier
Robin Jeffrey
Hespèrion XXI
Julia Faulkner
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Richard Edlinger
Candida Thompson
Ludwig Güttler
Accentus
Michel Corboz
Marta Zalewska
Hieronymus Praetorius
Gregorio Allegri
Vox Luminis
Patrick Peire
Béla Nagy
Jonathan Cohen
Leonardo García-Alarcón
Les Frivolités Parisiennes
Byzantine Renaissance
Orfeó Català
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz
Nicola Barbon
Stephen Stubbs
Peter Phillips
Ross Pople
Vincenzo Crimaco
Thomas Gould
Benedetti Baroque Orchestra
Paul Dyer
Heinrich Schütz
Jost Michaels
Cappella Amsterdam
Michael Leighton Jones
Ian Watson
Stefano Montanari
Bohdan Warchal
Sabine Devieilhe
Vojtěch Semerád
Grete Pedersen
Robert King
Mark Bennett
The Gesualdo Six
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Cappella Mariana
Sébastien Daucé
Micaela Comberti
Chiara Castelli
Jörg Faerber
I Solisti Veneti