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A Secret Labyrinth: A Celebration of Music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble.
A helpful commenter at Amazon lists the contents of this boxed set (since the sellers couldn’t be bothered):
SK 53341 - Codex Las Huelgas - Music from 13th Century Spain 
SK 48195 - Febus Avant!, Music at the Court of Gaston Febus (1331-1391) 
SK 53976 - Music from the Court of King Janus at Nicosia (1374-1432) 
SK 66261 - Utopia Triumphans 
SK 60760 - Alexander Agricola - A Secret Labyrinth 
SK 68258 - Matthaeus Pipelare - Missa “L’homme armé”, Chansons, Motets 
SK 46348 - Antoine Brumel - Missa “Et ecce terrae motus”, Sequentia “Dies irae” 
SK 46699 - Mateo Flecha el Viejo (1481-1553) - Las Ensaladas 
SK 53116 - Costanzo Festa (c.1490-1545) - Magnificat, Mass parts, Motets, Madrigals 
SK 48249 - Nicolas Gombert (c.1500-c.1557) - Music from the Court of Charles V 
SK 62694 - Pierre de Manchicourt (c.1510-1564) - Missa “Veni Sancte Spiritus”, Motets, Chansons 
SK 53373 - Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) - Lagrime di San Pietro 
SK 64305 - Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591) - Opus musicum, Missa super “Sancta Maria” 
SK 66288 - Cancoes, Vilancicos - e Motetes Portugueses, Séculos XVI-XVII 
SK 53115 - Joao Lourenco Rebelo (1610-1661) Lementations for Maundy Thursday, Vesper Psalms 
(Interesting: no Adémar de Chabannes, no Hildegard von Bingen…)
I really need to reassess the definition of “essential” in my no-nonessential purchases lifestyle. From the same Talk Classical thread that brought this to my attention:

I keep thinking, “Well, I’ve got a big collection now, all the essential stuff, so I need to stop buying so much stuff and listen to what I have until I get to know it better.” I keep doing otherwise.

Yes, I know the feeling…

A Secret Labyrinth: A Celebration of Music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble.

A helpful commenter at Amazon lists the contents of this boxed set (since the sellers couldn’t be bothered):

  1. SK 53341 - Codex Las Huelgas - Music from 13th Century Spain 
  2. SK 48195 - Febus Avant!, Music at the Court of Gaston Febus (1331-1391) 
  3. SK 53976 - Music from the Court of King Janus at Nicosia (1374-1432) 
  4. SK 66261 - Utopia Triumphans 
  5. SK 60760 - Alexander Agricola - A Secret Labyrinth 
  6. SK 68258 - Matthaeus Pipelare - Missa “L’homme armé”, Chansons, Motets 
  7. SK 46348 - Antoine Brumel - Missa “Et ecce terrae motus”, Sequentia “Dies irae” 
  8. SK 46699 - Mateo Flecha el Viejo (1481-1553) - Las Ensaladas 
  9. SK 53116 - Costanzo Festa (c.1490-1545) - Magnificat, Mass parts, Motets, Madrigals 
  10. SK 48249 - Nicolas Gombert (c.1500-c.1557) - Music from the Court of Charles V 
  11. SK 62694 - Pierre de Manchicourt (c.1510-1564) - Missa “Veni Sancte Spiritus”, Motets, Chansons 
  12. SK 53373 - Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) - Lagrime di San Pietro 
  13. SK 64305 - Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591) - Opus musicum, Missa super “Sancta Maria” 
  14. SK 66288 - Cancoes, Vilancicos - e Motetes Portugueses, Séculos XVI-XVII 
  15. SK 53115 - Joao Lourenco Rebelo (1610-1661) Lementations for Maundy Thursday, Vesper Psalms 

(Interesting: no Adémar de Chabannes, no Hildegard von Bingen…)

I really need to reassess the definition of “essential” in my no-nonessential purchases lifestyle. From the same Talk Classical thread that brought this to my attention:

I keep thinking, “Well, I’ve got a big collection now, all the essential stuff, so I need to stop buying so much stuff and listen to what I have until I get to know it better.” I keep doing otherwise.

Yes, I know the feeling…