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Monday, May 16, 2005

Polyphony
These two disks arrived today (click on the images to find links to sound files):
Both are from Naxos, which has become my favorite label in recent years. It offers high-quality, low-price recordings of hard-to-find music.

I first discovered the world of Polyphony from an unlikely source. In The Log from the Sea of Cortez, John Steinbeck's non-fiction work, we learn that Edward F. Ricketts, the model for the character "Doc" in Cannery Row, although a bohemian and a scientist of the most scientistic sort, had a taste for the music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.