Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. 6 Dances from "Terpsichore": Entrée - Courante
2. 6 Dances from "Terpsichore": Gavotte - Fritz Neumeyer
3. 6 Dances from "Terpsichore": Spagnoletta - Konrad Ragossnig,
4. 6 Dances from "Terpsichore": La Bourée
5. 6 Dances from "Terpsichore": Ballet
6. 6 Dances from "Terpsichore": Volte
7. Daentz und Galliaden from "Musikalischer Tugendspiegel": Sophia ...
8. Daentz und Galliaden from "Musikalischer Tugendspiegel": Clara (No. 6)
9. Daentz und Galliaden from "Musikalischer Tugendspiegel": Magdalena ...
10. Daentz und Galliaden from "Musikalischer Tugendspiegel": Agatha ... - Fritz Neumeyer
11. Daentz und Galliaden from "Musikalischer Tugendspiegel": Regina ... - Fritz Neumeyer
12. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 4: 1. Pavane - Fritz Neumeyer
13. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 4: 2. Gaillarde - Fritz Neumeyer
14. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 4: 3. Courante - Fritz Neumeyer
15. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 4: 4. Allemande - Tripla - Fritz Neumeyer
16. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 5: 1. Pavane - Fritz Neumeyer
17. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 5: 2. Gaillarde - Fritz Neumeyer
18. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 5: 3. Courante
19. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 5: 4. Allemande - Tripla - Fritz Neumeyer
20. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 3: 1. Pavane - Fritz Neumeyer
21. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 3: 2. Gaillarde - Fritz Neumeyer
22. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 3: 3. Courante
23. Banchetto Musicale/Suite No. 3: 4. Allemande - Tripla
24. Lamento Di Tristano - Rotta
25. Trotto
26. Istampita Ghaetta
27. Istampita Cominciamento Di Gioia
28. Saltarello
29. Bassa Danza À 2 - Konrad Ragossnig,
30. Alta Danza À 3 - Konrad Ragossnig,
31. Bassa Danza À 2
32. Bassa Danza À 3 - Konrad Ragossnig,
33. Bassa Danza la Brosse - Tripla - Tourion
34. Bassa Danza la Gatta
35. Bassa Danza la Magdalena

Disc 2:

1. Calata Ala Spagnola
2. Der Judentanz
3. Welscher Tanz Wascha Mesa - Hupfauff
4. Pavana I/II
5. Romanesca Guarda Me las Vacas
6. Passamezzo - Saltarello
7. Branle de Bourgogne
8. Englischer Tanz
9. Tanz du Has Mich Wollen Nemmen
10. Schiarazula Marazula
11. Ungaresca - Saltarello
12. Ronde
13. Branle de Bourgogne
14. Branle de Champagne
15. Passamezzo d'Italye - Reprise - Gaillarde
16. Schiarazula Marazula
17. Tedesca - Saltarello
18. Ungaresca - Saltarello
19. Branle - Branle Gay
20. Mascherade
21. Saltarello
22. Ballo Detto "Il Conte Orlando" - Saltarello
23. Gagilarda del Principe Di Venosa
24. Barriera
25. Celeste Giglio
26. Pavana de Spaigne
27. Courante
28. Courante
29. Volte
30. Volte
31. Pavan: The Funerals
32. Noel's Galliard
33. Coranto: High Ho Holiday
34. Kemp's Jig
35. Queen Elizabeth Her Galliard
36. Mrs. Winter's Jump
37. Alman
38. Galliard
39. Gaillarde de Monsieur Wustron
40. Gaillarde de la Guerre
41. Reprinse
42. Tantz
43. Paduan
44. Galliard
45. Catkanei

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25984 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Compilation
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 138 minutes

Customer Reviews

perfect!
I have loved this performance since it was released in the 1960s. My young sons and I listened to our vinyl record so often that we used to say that one day we might be able to hear both sides at once. After I had lent our record to someone who subsequently vanished, I grieved the loss for many years.

Amazingly, a few years ago I heard the magical strains of my beloved "Tanzmusik der Praetoriouszeit" on our classical-music radio station! (Thank you, John Rittmeyer.) The recording had been digitally remastered and made into a CD!! I have purchased several copies of the CD since then, one for me and the others as gifts to family and friends.

There are, of course, many more-recent recordings and some interesting performances of the Praetorious dance music, but the the authenticity of instrumentation and interpretation here is compelling. This performance is superlative in every respect. And it holds my heart.

Wonderful reissue from early days of early music recordings
This cd is a reissue of material from several albums in the 60s. The Fritz Neumeyer recordings of Praetorius are from an old Archiv LP that was one of my first introductions to "early music", and it can be charged that it was more enthusiastic than historically informed. A recorder consort will take up one section of a tune, and then a group of viols will swirl in, maybe followed by crumhorns playing another brief phrase, and then a solo harpsichord finishing off the tune. Different instruments provide a variety of textures of sound, keeping things interesting even though most of the tunes are played fairly "straight", without a lot of improvisation. There's been quite a bit of research and rediscovery of Renaissance techniques since this record was first out, and I appreciate those, but these old recordings really get my toe tapping and remind me why I fell in love with early music in the first place.

A complete embarassment!
This is an example of what happens when people who have no clue about early-music performance get together and play early music. The viol playing is drowned in gooey vibrato, as are the recorders. The dances sound appropriate for a bunch of now-superceded German musicologists prancing around in Renaissance-Faire velvet and leggings, which is exactly what is happening, and if you like this sort of thing, the patchouli has probably got to your brain. It's cute the first time around, but by the fourth or fifth listen, anybody with any taste is going to be reaching for their spare air-sickness bags.