Parsons Playlists: Renaissance Polyphony to Get Your Brain Going

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we’re featuring a collection of Renaissance Polyphony curated by Music Library student assistant Ryan (class of 2022).

So here is “Renaissance Polyphony to Get Your Brain Going”:

Singing Angels - Van Eyck

The Ghent Altarpiece: Singing Angels (detail) by Jan van Eyck (1432)

William Byrd – Mass for Four voices

William Byrd – Infelix Ego

William Byrd – Mass for Five Voices

Some Renaissance musical notation

Thomas Tallis – Spem in Alium

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli

Gregorio Allegri – Miserere mei, Deus

And here is a link to a YouTube playlist of all of the works above!

The Concert - Honthorst


Musicians of the late Renaissance/early Baroque era (Gerard van Honthorst, The Concert, 1623)

New CDs added in November!

New CDs for November 2015

Classical

Eighth Blackbird – Filament
Antonio Vivaldi – Complete Viola D’Amore Concertos
Franz Schubert – The Unauthorised Piano Duos
Pablo Villegas – Americano
Kontras Quartet – Origins

Eighth Blackbird - Filament

Pablo Villegas - Americano

Vivaldi - Complete Viola D'Amore Concertos

Early Music

Blue Heron Renaissance Choir – Music From The Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 4

Blue Heron Renaissance Choir

Vocal/Opera

Joyce DiDonato & Antonio Pappano – Joyce & Tony: Live At Wigmore Hall

Joyce & Tony:  Live at Wigmore Hall

Musicals

Lin-Manuel Miranda – Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording

Hamilton Cast Recording

Pop/Rock/Country/Blues

Juan Diego Florez – Sentimiento Latino
Shemekia Copeland – Talking To Strangers
Shemekia Copeland – Outskirts of Love
Janelle Monae – The Archandroid
Janelle Monae – Metropolis: The Chase Suite

Sentimiento Latino

Metropolis

Outskirts of Love

Jazz

John Scofield – Past Present
Sun Ra – Four Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles
Sun Ra – Soundtrack to the Film Space Is The Place
Kenny Clarke – Kind of Clarke
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra – Dee Dee’s Feathers

Dee Dee's Feathers

Sun Ra - Space Is The Place