This Guide to Period Instruments endeavours to answer the questions that every lover of early music has about the instruments used in these periods of music history.Text and recorded excerpts describe the origin and the development of every musical instrument from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century and place them in their historical context. There is a completely new presentation booklet, over 200 pages long and abundantly illustrated, as well as eight CDs of recorded examples of the instruments that shed new light upon major periods of music history.These excerpts have been drawn from the Ricercar catalogue for the most part and are completed by new recordings made for the purpose as well as by material made available to us by other specialist recording labels.This Guide to Period Instruments is a perfect synthesis of the music lover's thirst for knowledge with the sheer pleasure of hearing these historical instruments.
The soloists:
Patrick Beuckels, Danny Bond, Bruno Cocset, Patrick Cohen, Patrick Cohën-Akenine, Jocelyne Cuiller, Stéphanie de Failly, Patrick Denecker, Frédéric de Roos, Christophe Deslignes,Thomas Deserranno, Jean Lou Descamps, Vincent Dumestre, Hannelore Devaere, Luc Devos, Jan de Winne, Olivier Féraud, François Fernandez, Julien Ferrando, Jean Ferrard, Claude Flagel, Elsa Frank, Reinhold Friedrich, Céline Frisch, Bernard Foccroulle, Michel Godart,Thierry Gomar, Siebe Henstra, Eric Hoeprich, Denis James, Konrad Junghänel, Robert Kohnen, Barthold Kuijken, Sigiswald Kuijken, Wieland Kuijken, François Lazarevitch, Gustav Leonhardt, Rolf Lislevand, Jean-François Madeuf, Philippe Malfeyt, Frédéric Martin, Carles Mas, Eric Mathot, Claude Maury, Marc Minkowski, José Miguel Moreno, Jérémie Papasergio, Guy Penson, Isabelle Perrin, Marie Ange Petit, Philippe Pierlot, Peter Pieters, Christina Pluhar, Marcel Ponseele, Denis Raisin-Dadre, Gilles Rapin, Crispian Steele-Perkins, Hidemi Suzuki, Xavier Terrasa, Jean Tubéry, Edward van Marsenille, Guy Van Waas, Joris Verdin, Sophie Watillon, Aline Zylberajch
The Ensembles:
Les Agrémens, La Caccia, Continens Paradisi, Capilla Flamenca, Ensemble Millenarium, Ensemble Clematis, Ensemble Doulce Mémoire, Flanders Recorder Quartet, La Fenice, Ricercar Consort, Ricercar Academy, Syntagma Amici, Les Flûtes d'Alleman, Wiener Akademie
