Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music from Renaissance Italy
Piffaro discs make this sedentary fool want to get up and dance.  Renaissance dance music is a much-underrated source of general delight, anyway.  You don't have to be the kind of specialist listener who loves medieval masses  to get a kick out of this tasty, highly rhythmic music--the disco of an earlier  era. The tunes are appealing, the sounds of the varied instruments consistently  delightful. I rate discs of Renaissance dances not so much by their  authenticity, a debatable matter anyway, but rather by their danceability.  Piffaro discs rank consistently high in this respect, and they are realistically  recorded.--Leslie Gerber