Early music recs wanted

[ellid]

I'm particularly interested in pilgrimage songs, but any good early music collection will do. I just picked up a CD by the New London Consort and am craving more.

:D

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[tree_and_leaf]

If you want liturgical music, there's a lovely CD called "Ther Geese Book" of music from Nuremberg available on Naxos (by the Schola Hungarica).

However, my strongest recommendation is that you check out the "Early Music Show" on BBC Radio 3, which goes out on weekends, but which you can listen to up to a week after transmission on line. Very educational, in the best possible sense, and will expose you to a lot of different genres and artists.

I also have undying love for Tallis, Gibbons, and Palestrina, but I'm not sure if you'd still count them as early. (I would, but it's clearly not the same as the high or late mediaeval stuff).

[ellid.livejournal.com]

I've sung some Palestrina and some Tallis, but alas! Unless I'm in exactly the right mood they're too gentle for me to listen to while driving or writing. I'll have to see about listening to the BBC on line - that sounds like a good show.