Following the early music path

Yesterday's post about ArkivMusic's reissue of David Munrow's The Art of Courtly Love reminds me that there are also some fine re-issues in Teldec's Das Alte Werk's 50th anniversary series. Particularly notable is Troubadours, Trouvères, Minstrels from Thomas Binkley's (left) under-rated and pioneering Studio der Frühen Musik who also recorded for EMI Electrola's ground-breaking, but so far not re-issued, Reflexe series. Yet more evidence that the tills are alive with the sound of early music.
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Some of the best cover art ever

'Some of the best cover art ever was on the EMI Reflexe series' - said David Cavlovic. I'll second that David, and what a fabulous series Gerd Berg's Reflexe was from EMI Electrola in Germany in the 1970s. There were LPs from Thomas Binkley and his Studio der Frühen Musik (cover art above), The Hilliard Ensemble, Hans-Martin Linde and his Linde-Consort, Michel Piguet and the Ricercare-Ensemble für alte Musik, Zurich and, of course, Jordi Savall and his Hespèrion XX Ensemble with their early recordings. More history of the Reflexe series here.

As I have said before, a picture is worth a thousand words.
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