This uniquely cross-sectional approach to culture combines great art with great music, and examines the connections between the two. Each piece of music from the carefully chosen selection takes on a new dimension and provides a musical context to the work of leading painters and sculptors. This fascinating series, with a colour booklet including a chronology of the principal artistic and political developments of the period, broadens our view of the music itself.

The woodcarvings of Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460-1531) represent the final and fullest flowering of the Gothic style in Germany. In the artistic fever of the Renaissance his work was swiftly forgotten, but after centuries of neglect his reputation is now firmly restored. On this audio, the world of Riemenschneider is given a musical perspective with a carefully chosen selection of pieces by the finest composers of his time. In the booklet, Hugh Griffith provides explanatory notes on his life and musical...