0 Italian dances of the Renaissance

Musica Antiqua, Christian Mendoze

"The musicians really do know how to find appropriate combinations that both sound well together and lend themselves to the mood of the piece at hand. This is a serious -and seriously fun- collection that will enhance anyone's existing early music library, and makes a good foundation for novice who wish to star one" --Classics Today.com

"Quite simple, this is the finest single recorded program of dance music from the High and Late Renaissance. Every early-music collector should have it. I will listen to it repeatedly with ever-renewable delight. Gosh, what a wonderful release! --American Record Guide

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0 Il Liuto a Venezia

Italian lutenist, Lonardi actively performs as soloist as well as in several ensembles all over Europe. Graduating from the Milan Conservatory with Ruggiero Chiesa, he then specialized in lute with Hopkinson Smith. His discography includes dozens of recordings and a number of monographic CD’s. He is professor of lute at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicale “Franco Vittadini in Pavia and the Scuola di Musica Antica in Venice. Lonardi will present several master classes.

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0 Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

David Munrow's passion for early music and musical instruments commenced in 1960 when he was 18. Teaching in Peru under the British Council Overseas Voluntary Scheme, he became interested in South American folk music and took back to England with him Bolivian flutes, Peruvian pipes, and dozens of other obscure instruments. The following year he entered Cambridge as an English major. There a crumhorn hanging off a friend's wall aroused his interest and led him to delve deeply into an independent study of Renaissance and Medieval music.

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