• Back Before Bach

    Catalog #: NV6106

    Release Date: July 14, 2017

    Renaissance
    Chamber
    Liturgical
    Wind Ensemble

    BACK BEFORE BACH, the latest Navona Records release from the Philadelphia-based ‘Renaissance band’ Piffaro, is an exceptional compendium of sixteenth and early seventeenth century German and Franco-Flemish music. As the album’s title suggests, the group of composers Piffaro features can be seen as the precedent for the luminaries of the German baroque era, specifically Johann Sebastian Bach. With BACK BEFORE BACH simultaneously drawing from a wide variety of genres, yet also focusing on a geographically and temporally limited group of composers, Piffaro succeeds wildly in presenting the musical foundation from which Bach and his contemporaries emerged.

  • Los Ministriles in the New World

    Catalog #: NV5875

    Release Date: June 1, 2012

    Renaissance
    Chamber
    Wind Ensemble

    Follow Piffaro from Spain to the New World in the 17th century and hear a wild array of secular songs, sacred motets, dances and instrumental fantasias are all performed on Piffaro's amazing collection of period instruments. This album is an all-instrumental homage to the music of Spain that was brought from the Old World, interspersed with music that was developed in the New World and influenced by the rich native cultures that the Spaniards encountered.

  • Vespers

    Catalog #: NV5809

    Release Date: April 1, 2009

    Renaissance
    Chamber
    Liturgical
    Vocal Music
    Choir

    Chicago's best-known early music ensemble The Newberry Consort exhilarates with VESPERS, a collection of dazzlingly original music for women’s voices. The composer? A mysterious early-17th-century Mexican named Juan de Lienas, whose style energetically oscillates between Renaissance and Baroque elements.

  • Waytes: English Music for a Renaissance Band

    Catalog #: NV5823

    Release Date: October 1, 2010

    Renaissance
    Chamber
    Wind Ensemble

    Piffaro