Food
of Love
Renaissance instrumental music from the British Isles.
Dances, ayres, divisions and variations, featuring HESPERUS’
trademark—improvisation. |
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My
Thing is My Own
Bawdy songs from Thomas D’urfey’s collection
Pills to Purge Melancholy. D’Urfey wrote original
words to common tunes. Some were political or topical,
but these explore the full range of love, sex, and seduction
in the 18th century. |
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Dancing
Day
Traditional Christmas music from the British Isles, Italy,
and Germany spanning the Middle Ages to the 18th century
with Rosa Lamoreaux. |
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| Spain
in the New World
Spanish and Native American music from New Spain, 16th
to 18th centuries. |
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Baroque
Recorder Concerti
Concertos by Telemann, Vivaldi, Graupner, Naudot, and
Babel featuring recorder virtuoso Scott Reiss. |
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Celtic
Roots
Award-winning recording of Scottish and Irish traditional
music from the earliest written sources. |
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| Luminous
Spirit: Chants of Hildegard von Bingen
Soprano Rosa Lamoreaux sings the chants of the 12th-century
abbess, to the improvisational accompaniment of Scott
Reiss (recorder and hammered dulcimer) and Tina Chancey
(vielle and kamenj). |
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I
Love Lucette
Songs and instrumentals from the French Renaissance theater,
with Rosa Lamoreaux. |
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Unicorn
The medieval/Appalachian fusion of the HESPERUS crossover
trio (Scott Reiss, Tina Chancey and Bruce Hutton) is expanded
to include Scandinavian and African world music, joined
by award-winning Old-Time fiddler Bruce Molsky. |
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Neo-Medieval
Medieval polyphony and improvisations on lute, recorder,
vielle, saz, dombek, kamenj, dulcimer and vielle with
Scott Reiss, Tina Chancey, and Grant Herreid. |
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Barthelemy
de Caix: Six Sonatas for two Pardessus de Viole
The Duo Guersan, Tina Chancey and Catherina Meints, perform
this remarkable collection of duets for the rarest of
rare early instruments, the pardessus. |
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Early
American Roots
Tina Chancey, Scott Reiss and Mark Cudek explore a cross-section
of the most vital popular music from Colonial and Federal
America. |
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Patchwork
A re-issue of HESPERUS’ popular crossover CD For
No Good Reason At All, a fusion of medieval, Renaissance,
Appalachian, ragtime, vaudeville and the blues, all on
more than 25 early and traditional instruments. |
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Colonial
America
- NEW! 2003
From the first colonists to the American Revolution and
the birth of our republic, Hesperus' music reflects a
time of new ideas, freedom and vitality. In town and village,
parlor and ballroom, from the Appalachian mountains to
the great concert halls hear the musical pulse of early
American music performed on a wide variety of fok and
early music instruments. |
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The
Banshee's Wail
Scott Reiss's tour-de-force on recorders and Irish whistle,
with the
legendary percussionist Glen Velez, consummate guitar
and bazouki player Zan
McLeod, and virtuoso early/traditional string player Tina
Chancey. |
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