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Wind Music from Renaissance Italy Piffaro, The Renaissance Band Deutsche Grammophon The Renaissance Band, Piffaro, performs a collection of Renaissance wind music, displaying great playing divergence among their ranks and showing excellent technical prowess. They offer music from 17 Italian composers, including "loud" and "soft" wind consorts as well as performing on some string and percussion instruments. The quality of the recording is pristine. More room ambiance would give the whole mix a more energetic live quality, but the dryness certainly doesn't give a great performance anything to hide behind. The song arrangements are split up into various logical categorizes, such as instrumentation and composer, and this tends to blend parts of this whole work together. So, it is a little difficult to find the standout material, because the songs progress logically and not necessarily emotionally. This is especially true since the body of music is largely confined to 16 century Italy, so that style pervades throughout, and this alone will blend the overall aural effect of the collection. If you are looking for some well played music from the birthplace of the Renaissance, you will not be disappointed with this album.

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