Farewell, Unkind: Songs and Dances of John Dowland
Farewell, Unkind: Songs and Dances of John Dowland
RenaissanceThe Boston Camerata
Erato/Warner - 1995
The Boston Camerata
Erato/Warner - 1995
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Music and Memory
Music and Memory
American Baroque Christmas Medieval RenaissanceThe Boston Camerata
Erato/Warner - 1995
compilation of Music Director Emeritus Joel Cohen’s work
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Trav’ling Home: American Spirituals 1770-1870
Trav’ling Home: American Spirituals 1770-1870
AmericanThe Boston Camerata
Erato/Warner - 1994
As urban America of the nineteenth century grew and prospered, it became anxious to show itself civilized and “cultured” along the lines of established European culture. And so it was that the music of America’s…
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The Unicorn: Medieval French Songs
The Unicorn: Medieval French Songs
MedievalAnne Azéma
Erato/Warner - 1994
This program of old French music and poetry explores a very important but-little known aspect of the Middle Ages: the art of story-telling. Centuries ago, the frontier between the musical and literary worlds was much…
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Lamentations: Holy Week in Provence
Lamentations: Holy Week in Provence
MedievalThe Boston Camerata
Erato/Warner - 1994
Joel Cohen may well be the best precisely where, a priori, you least expect him to be. If anyone is a many-faceted talent, it is surely he, since he undertakes, with the Boston Camerata, seven centuries of music, including, a few years back…
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Simple Gifts: Shaker Chants and Spirituals
Simple Gifts: Shaker Chants and Spirituals
AmericanThe Boston Camerata
Erato/Warner - 1994
The United Society of Believers, commonly known as the Shakers, have best been described as a Protestant Monastic Community. An old hymn of ours states “at Manchester in England this blessed fire began” and so it did in 1747.
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An American Christmas
An American Christmas
American ChristmasThe Boston Camerata
Erato - 1993
An extremely rich recording, procuring constant enchantment on repeated hearings. Once more, the intelligence of Joel Cohen and his musicians ravishes us. The voices are superb, among others those of Anne Azéma… -Compact (Paris)
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Bernatz de Ventadorn: Le Fou sur le pont
Bernatz de Ventadorn: Le Fou sur le pont
MedievalCamerata Mediterranea
Erato/Warner - 1993
Ever since the middle ages, the troubadours of Provence have exerted a special kind of fascination for historians, poets, and lovers of music and literature.
By Bernatz de Vendadorn (12th century)
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Nueva España: Close Encounters in the New World 1590-1690
Nueva España: Close Encounters in the New World 1590-1690
Baroque RenaissanceThe Boston Camerata
Erato/Warner - 1992
The Age of Exploration! In our school days, we were told it was a time of heroes, and of high adventure. Later, we came to understand what terrible suffering and injustice the Spaniards had wrought in their drive for fame…
