Claudio Monteverdi gave music history a series of musical ideas that still have an impact today - ostinato basses like the "walking bass", the ciaccona or the lamento bass with its four descending tones, dramatic dirges like the Lamento d'Arianna, accumulated dissonances like am End of the Ballo delle ingrate, which sometimes touches the boundaries of the atonal.

What you get on this release by veteran countertenor Dominique Visse and the Capella de la Torre is something less accessible than what is suggested by the Vinum et Musica title but more accessible than the pedantic subtitle "Songs & dances from Nuremberg sources (15th & 16th century)." The collection of pieces here is a sort of tour of the city of Nuremberg, an important German city in Renaissance times but not one that was home to its own compositional school.

‘Luther’s Wedding Day’ attempts to reconstruct a programme of music that may have been played at the great German religious reformer’s marriage. It is performed by the highly-regarded early music ensemble Capella de la Torre and its leader/musical director Katharina Bauml. The disc features pieces by some of the greatest composers of the time including Josquin Desprez, Heinrich Isaac, Ludwig Senfl, and Johann Walter.