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Yarlung Records continues to celebrate the label’s 20th Anniversary with another superb release from its archives. Ciaramella, the Los Angeles based early music band, is a world class ensemble. Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert & Rotem Gilbert, they play music from 500 years ago. For them, none of this 200-300 year old “modern stuff.” No, they play the real thing that graced the Medieval and Renaissance courts and country sides of the 14th and 15th centuries. This is the world of shawms, recorders, sackbuts, slide trumpets, and bagpipes. To find it so well presented by Ciaramella is a treasure.

In this first of their Yarlung albums, Ciaramella presents music with the diversity of the court of the Duke of Burgundy circa 1500. As prevalent in that society, the music here is both transcendent and bawdy, rich with refined elegance and rowdy dissonance.

“Audiophile music critic and writer Rush Paul called me and told me what a great idea it would be to re-release some of Yarlung’s earlier albums in high resolution. Yarlung’s 20th Anniversary gives us the perfect excuse to look back a bit and celebrate some of our earlier successes with outstanding musicians. Elliot Midwood, frequent executive producer and one of the principal equipment designers at Yarlung, offered to underwrite some of these releases. We began with David Fung’s now iconic Evening Conversations, an album for solo piano recorded in Zipper Hall at Colburn School, which helped put Yarlung on the international audiophile map. Here we celebrate Ciaramella: Music from the Court of Burgundy, an early project with Rotem and Adam Gilbert and their musical family of “Renaissance Minstrels.” Little did I know at the time what fast friends we would become. Adam serves as Special Advisor to Yarlung and has subsequently introduced us to some of our most outstanding musicians.”
– Bob Attiyeh, producer

Ciaramella
Adam Knight Gilbert & Rotem Gilbert, directors
Susan Judy (SJ) & Debra Nagy (DN), sopranos
N. Lincoln Hanks (NLH) & Temmo Korisheli (TK), tenors
Adam Knight Gilbert (AG), recorders, shawms, bagpipes
Rotem Gilbert (RG), recorders, shawms, bagpipes
Doug Milliken (DM), recorders, shawms, bagpipes
Debra Nagy (DN), recorders, shawms
Greg Ingles (GI), slide trumpet, sackbut
Erik Schmalz (ES), sackbut
Sidney Hopson (SH), percussion