Composer: Erasmus Widmann, Michel Praetorius
Performer: Accademia del Ricercare
Conductor: Pietro Busca
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 777608-2
Release: 2016
Size: 308 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Widmann: Musicalischer Tugendtspiegel
01. Intrada XXV
02. Helena – Foelicitas
03. Magdalena – Sybilla
04. Agatha
05. Susanna – Dorothea – Maria
06. Sophia Anna – Christina
07. Margaretha – Johanna
08. Barbara – Ursula
09. Clara
10. Regina
11. Intrada XXVIII
12. Cantzon XII
13. Cantzon V
Praetorius: Terpsichore
14. Courante I-II
15. Bransle de Villages I-V
16. Ballet – Ballet des Amazones
17. Reprinse
18. Ballet des Baccanales – Ballet des feus – Ballet des Matelotz
19. Gavottes
20. Bourrée I-II
21. Volte
Spirited Dances from the Seventeenth Century: This release offers a fascinating overview of the German instrumental world just prior to the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48). You can look forward to dances of spirited motion quite literally inviting the listener to dance and exhibiting a full and richly varied sound palette.