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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Agostino Steffani
Alessandro Scarlatti
Alfred Deller
AlmaViva Música
Andrea Gabrieli
Anne-Sophie Bertrand
Antonio Vivaldi
Anónimo
Arcangelo Corelli
Baptiste Romain
Baude Cordier
Cantata Collective
Carl Maria von Weber
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christophe Rousset
Cinquecento
Claude Goudimel
Claude Le Jeune
Claudio Monteverdi
Comet Musicke
Comtessa de Dia
Corul National de Camera Madrigal - Marin Constantin
Dallas Bach Society
Dietrich Buxtehude
Domenico Scarlatti
Duarte Lobo
Edward Wickham
Elsa Dreisig
Ensemble Pro Victoria
Florilegium
Francesca Aspromonte
François Couperin
Georg Philipp Telemann
George Frideric Handel
Giacomo Carissimi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Hana Blažíková
Hannah De Priest
Heinrich Schütz
Henry Purcell
Holland Baroque
Il Giardino Armonico
Jakob Bloch Jespersen
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jordi Savall
Joseph Middleton
Julie Roset
Justin Taylor
Justyna Chachuła
Jörg Faerber
Kieran White
L'Arpeggiata
L'Atelier de musique
L'Orfeo Barockorchester
La Compagnia del Madrigale
La Tempête
Laurence Cummings
Le Concert Spirituel
Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu
Le Miroir de Musique
Leonardo García-Alarcón
Les Délices
Les Talens Lyriques
Liliia Kysil
Lisette van de Pavoordt
Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Cherubini
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marin Marais
Michi Gaigg
Millenium Orchestra
Modo Antiquo
Nick Pritchard
Nicolò Pedrini
Ora Singers
Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal
Owen Rees
Paul Agnew
Pedro de Escobar
Pietro Mascagni
Randall Scotting
Richard Boothby
Sigiswald Kuijken
Simon-Pierre Bestion
Suzi Digby
Sébastien Daucé
The Gesualdo Six
The Hilliard Ensemble
The Sixteen
The Tallis Scholars
Toby Ward
Tomaso Albinoni
VOCES8 Foundation Choir
Vincenzo Di Betta
Voces Suaves
Yoann Moulin
Zeronove
Antonio Vivaldi
George Frideric Handel
Adrian Chandler
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jordi Savall
Henry Purcell
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Pietro Mascagni
Arcangelo Corelli
Anna Holbling
Georg Philipp Telemann
Jean-François Paillard
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Domenico Scarlatti
Tomaso Albinoni
Petr Skvor
Helmut Müller-Brühl
Luigi Boccherini
Alessandro Marcello
The Monteverdi Choir
Cecilia Bartoli
Simon Preston
Andrea Marcon
The Tallis Scholars
Kay Johannsen
Susanne Fröhlich
Iona Brown
Kevin Mallon
Léon Mignard
Trio Serena
Sebastian Comberti
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Peter Phillips
Accademia I Filarmonici
Raymond Leppard
Alberto Martini
Aradia Ensemble
Claudio Monteverdi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Il Giardino Armonico
Gregorio Allegri
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Eugène Arnaud
Nicol Matt
Candida Thompson
Marco Decimo
Lucy van Dael
Simon Wynberg
François Couperin
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Atwood Quartet
Peter Phillips
Leslie Pearson
Wolfgang Sobotka
Musica Bohemica
Olga Watts
Remo Giazotto
The Sixteen
L'Arpeggiata
Stephen Layton
Andrew Watkinson
Pieter Jan Leusink
Giuseppe Tartini
Carl Maria von Weber
Robin Jeffrey
Liliia Kysil
Karl Münchinger
Lionel Meunier
Marin Marais
Richard Edlinger
Hespèrion XXI
Ludwig Güttler
Julia Faulkner
Christophe Rousset
Marta Zalewska
David Bergmüller
Michel Corboz
Patrick Peire
Les Frivolités Parisiennes
The Hilliard Ensemble
Leonardo García-Alarcón
Owen Rees
Accentus
Vox Luminis
Hieronymus Praetorius
Alessandro Scarlatti
Béla Nagy
Dietrich Buxtehude
Corul National de Camera Madrigal - Marin Constantin
Emmanuelle Haïm
Orlande de Lassus
Heinrich Schütz
Jonathan Cohen
Francesco Geminiani
Le Concert Spirituel
Les Talens Lyriques
Thomas Tallis
Orfeó Català
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz