Artist	Song
Gluck	De Placatevi Con Me
Bertola	Sonata Settima
Ancient Instruments	Cornett with basset recorder
Carpe Diem	16254
Monteverdi	Beatus Vir
Praetorius	Wie sch÷n leuchtet der Morgenstern
Schein	Padouana
Schelle	Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland
Ensemble Douce Memoire	Pavane de la Bataille
?	Ricercar a 4 del duodecimo tuono
Cazzati	La Pellicana
de Wert	Egressus Jesus
Taverner Consort	Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10
Scheidt	Galliard Battaglia
Bach	Sinfonia BWV 29
Monteverdi	Laudate Dominum Secondo
Carpe Diem	16258
Schutz	Ich Liege Und Schlafe
Renaissance Winds	Gagliarda La Traditora
Carpe Diem	16251
Renaissance Winds	Galliarde
Monteverdi	Deus tuorum militum

Comment:

The cornetto: all but extinct until the last fifty years or so, but, in its height, the most admired, flexible, transcendent instrument ever played. Everyone agreed that it mimicked the human voice (particularly the castrated human voice, he) better than anything else, and its sound was compared to "a shaft of pearly light piercing through the dimness of a vast cathedral". I'm learning to play it (slowly) myself, and I'm already crazy in love with it. It's like nothing else you've ever heard. There's some really good stuff on this disc, in spite of the shoddy labeling (which I apologize for). I don't have all the information for these tracks because the majority of them were sent to me by an extremely generous Australian gentleman, with varyingly complete id3 tags. The rest was scrounged from the web and a couple of CDs.

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