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• Josquin des Prez: Missa Pange Lingua
  from Hyperion.
  I bought this recording because I am desperately in love with the composer -- Josquin des Prez. For reasons I can't quite explain, his music moves me and inspires me as few other Renaissance composers can. I first became acquainted with him while singing his "Missa de Beata Virgine" with my own...

• Philip Pickett: Alchemist
  from Linn Records.

• Chansons et Danceries (French Renaissance Wind Music)
  from Polygram Records.
  Perhaps, instead, I should say, "Not up to my standards for Piffaro." This CD over-emphasizes the slow recorder or lute music that I always skip, and doesn't have much in the way of the faster, toe-tapping bagpipe or shawm music that made Piffaro poular. This CD is worth having, but only after you...

• Josquin dez Prez: Missa Faisant Regretz; Motets
  from Asv Living Era.

• The Art of the Lute Player
  from Avie.

• The Sweet Look And The Loving Manner - Trobairitz, Love Lyrics and Chansons de Femme from Medieval France / Wishart, Sinfonye
  from Hyperion.

• Josquin Des Prez & Heinrich Isaac: Music of the Renaissance
  from Centaur.

• Des Prez: Missa Lesse faire a mi
  from Ricercar.

• The Italian Lute Song
  from Dorian.
  Julianne Baird, along with Emma Kirkby, is virtually unique in having achieved super-stardom as an exclusively Early Music Soprano. She is symbolic of the sea-change in this field which was once the refuge of artists who couldn't make it in the mainstream of the Romantic repertoire. In the early...

• Josquin des Prez: Sixteenth-Century Lute Settings
  from Discipline Records.
  I first heard Jacob Herringman playing this music on the radio, from a recorded concert, and was immediately taken by it. Josquin was regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, although he is largely unknown today outside of music scholarship. Herringman has done music lovers a...

• Josquin Des Prez