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Berkeley Festival 2012 Continued from page 43 program was unusual in its variety, depth, and beauty and was of special interest to many concertgoers. Another unusual concert was Ansámbl Luython’s “Collegium Rorantistarum: Renaissance Music of the Polish Court,” led by artistic director Vince B. Ho. The ﬁrst half included solo pieces, a lovely canzona by Adam Jarzêbski, and hymns sung in Polish. The second half consisted of Lwowczyk’s Missa Paschalis, one of the most important sacred choral compositions of the Polish Renaissance. Unlike typical European music of the period, the ensemble performed without sackbuts, bagpipes, crumhorns, or similar instruments, but employed a large string section and a “regal” organ with two pairs of bellows (played by Ho). Piroshkis and kielbasa were served. Early in the week, Frances Blaker (recorders), David Wilson (Baroque violin), Barbara Blaker Krumdieck (Baroque cello), Jonathan Salzedo (harpsichord), and William Simms (theorbo, Baroque guitar) of Ensemble Vermillian performed well-chosen trio and solo sonatas by J.S. Bach and Jean-Marie Leclair. One of the Fringe’s other presenters called it “a smoking performance played to perfection by an ensemble doing what it does best: recasting strong works for recorder and violin.” Les grâces (Jennifer Paulino, Annette Bauer, Rebekah Ahrendt, and Jonathan Rhodes Lee) contributed the West Coast premiere of Jean-Baptiste Stuck dit Battistin’s The Butterﬂy, and the amateur group Bay Area Baroque Orchestra—joined by professional Baroque musicians from the Bay Area and beyond—was well received by listeners who found its interpretations vibrant and moving. At one point the conductor, Frances Blaker, had the audience sing part of The Art of the Fugue to familiarize them with the theme before the orchestra performed it, then had instrumentalists serve double and triple duty by playing each other’s parts. Other Fringe highlights included a beneﬁt for Eileen Hadidian honoring her Continued on page 57 NEW & RECENT TITLES IN EARLY MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND THE MIDDLE ENGLISH ROMANCE LINDA MARIE ZAERR An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. List Price: $90.00; O er Price: $67.50 9781843843238, August 2012; 296 pp, cloth MUSIC AND CEREMONY AT THE COURT OF CHARLES V The Capilla Flamenca and the Art of Political Promotion MARY TIFFANY FERER Shows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe. List Price: $99.00; O er Price: $74.25 9781843836995, March 2012; 4 b/w illustrations; 320 pp, cloth THE SONGS AND TRAVELS OF A TUDOR MINSTREL Richard Sheale of Tamworth ANDREW TAYLOR A reconstruction of the life and works of a sixteenth-century minstrel, showing the tradition to be ourishing well into the Tudor period. List Price: $99.00; O er Price: $74.25 9781903153390, April 2012; 1 line illustration; 224 pp, cloth York Medieval Press JUAN ESQUIVEL CLIVE WALKLEY A Master of Sacred Music during the Spanish Golden Age First study of Juan Esquivel, a highly signi cant gure in Spanish musical life in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. List Price: $95.00; O er Price: $71.25 9781843835875, November 2010; 7 b/w illustration; 288 pp, cloth THE BALCARRES LUTE BOOK 2V olume Set Edited by MATTHEW SPRING This two volume set includes a facsimile and transcription of an important 17th century source of lute music. List Price: $165.00; O er Price: $123.75 9780852618462, August 2010; 416 pp, cloth Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen V . $12181 . . Early Music America Fall 2012 47 http://www.boydellandbrewer.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Early Music America Fall 2012

Editor’s Note
EMA Competition
Sound Bytes
Musings: Listening Forward
Profile: A Classical Playlist on Your Cable Television
Recording Reviews
Reconstructing Spanish Songs from the Time of Cervantes
Janet See: Traversist on Two Continents
Musical Mosaic Explores “Perspectives of Interspersing Peoples”
Book Reviews
Ad Index
In Conclusion: Conducting Early Music

Early Music America Fall 2012