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Boston Skyline: PLEASE RERELEASE THIS!

John Parker Marmaro | Spring Hill, Florida | 01/20/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the most delightful, rollicking, joyous, beautiful recording of music of this period I have ever heard, and I've heard a passel of them. And all on original instruments, but never acrid or vinegary as period-instrument performances usually are. Including some of the finest Sixeenth Century instrumental works, by the great Michael Praetorius, Erasmus Widmann, and J.H. Schein. The arrangements are exquisite. The performances are perfect. Beautiful and haunting and infectious in their joy. The famous works by Praetorius are all delightful -- the Volta that ends the suite rhythmically engaging-- the Widmann pieces-- charmingly each titled after women of his acquaintance (one surmises) -- different in personality but no less delightful-- the Schein suites as well. Out of the entire repertoire of recordings of this period, this recording is, to me, the very greatest-- and that even considering some very fine competition! To anyone who is unfamiliar with music of this period, this recording makes an utterly perfect introduction, and it will become a cherished part of your collection. Now, PLEASE, Boston Skyline, RE-RELEASE IT! This being out-of-print leaves a conspicuous, yawning gap in the catalogue!"

Alternate release

Holofernes | Brookline, MA, USA | 12/01/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Frustrated buyers, hoping against hope that Skyline will get their act together, may like to know that what might be a broadly identical release exists. The original was on a Deutsche Grammaphon ARCHIV LP back in 1961. DG in July 2006, in its Collection du Millenaire, issued a disc called DANSES DE LA RENAISSANCE, which features the same two groups as on the Skyline CD -- the Ulsamer Collegium and the Collegium Terpsichore. The DG disc seems to have condensed the first thirty tracks of the Skyline CD down to three -- one each for Praetorious (six tracks on Skyline), Widmann (five Skyline) and Schein (12 Skyline, or three depending on which amazon page you consult). The rest of the CD may comprise different selections, but the ones discussed above appear to be identical."

These performances ARE currently available...

Ed Goodspeed | Massachusetts | 07/23/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"...just not from Boston Skyline. Unless I'm grossly mistaken, these tracks are all contained on Panorama: Dances of the Renaissance. The "From the Vault" tracks 1-23 are the same as the "Panorama" CD1 tracks 1-23. "From the Vault" track 24 is the same as "Panorama" CD2 track 13, "FtV" track 25 is "Pan" CD2 track 22, "FtV" tracks 26 and 27 are "Pan" CD2 tracks 28 and 29, and "FtV" tracks 28-30 are "Pan" CD2 tracks 39-41."