Early Music

Music from the Middle-Ages and the Renaissance is a play of space and time, the movement between suggested contrasts: vocal-instrumental, melody-tone, spiritual-materialistic, heaven and earth. Our journey through various cultures and dimensions of sound from these epochs will help to explain this interplay of connected contrasts.
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Medieval Electronic Music In Authentic Performance" The incorporation of electronic music for the interpretation of Hildegard´s songs is a symbol of MUSICA MUNDANA, the cosmological music which contained the harmony of the elements, of the spheres and of the seasons. more...

Early music from the years 1200 -1600 AD you will find on this double CD. Interesting and authentic
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The personal union of the kingdoms Aragon and Castilia in 1474, the conquest of Granada in 1492 and the discovery of the New World in the same year inaugurated a new era of Spanish politics, Spanish culture and, in turn, of Spanish music. more...

This record presents the music that Hortus Musicus most often plays on tours, i.e. society music from the late Renaissance or Humanist age (ca 1520-1620) which at that time spread extensively across Europe. more...

The blind Dutch recorder-player Jacob van Eyck (1589/90 - 1657) was engaged as a carillonneur, first in his hometown Heusden and later in Utrecht. He was apparently a great master on carillons; he had several students, he looked after a number of carillons and church bells in Utrecht. more...

In its widest sense, the Catholic Church consists of all baptised believers. In the Middle Ages, the period of origin of Gregorian canto, the responsibility of unwavering thanks to God, however, was allocated to a select few believers specifically trained for this: monks and nuns. Their thanks to God had two fundamental forms of expression. more...

Although valued as an important aspect, for HORTUS MUSICUS authenticity in terms of music history has always been a means to an end, not a goal! Authenticity of this kind can be learned, and humbly approached. But if the hearts, heads and hands of the musicians are directed by self-knowledge and self-determination, the results will be different. For 28 years now, the Estonian Ensemble for Ancient Music has followed its vision of a unique manner of interpretation.

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