Lovers of early music will be delighted with this double CD, which provides a wonderful reference book for instrumental music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It also turns out to be an ideal browse CD: you can hear recordings of a very wide range of instruments, on which beautiful music is always played. You can hear sounds from medieval horns and sinks to fiddles, harpsichords, organs and
… various types of flutes. Or look for it even more obscure, with medieval bagpipes and nasal-sounding crumhorns. Fortunately, as befits such an encyclopedic publication, the booklet is beautiful and composed with care: extensive information is provided per track and instrument, often including images of the instruments to be heard. In all respects an expense that is very worthwhile. (TC)more