Marco Polo – The Journey

Marco Polo - The Journey
Studio album by
Released14 March 1992 (1992-03-14)
GenreEarly music
Length52:30
LabelArtelier Music
Ensemble Renaissance chronology
Gems Of Medieval Music
(1993)
Marco Polo - The Journey
(1992)
Journey to Jerusalem
(1995)

Marco Polo – The Journey is an album by Ensemble Renaissance, released in 1992 on the Artelier Music label in Germany. It is Renaissance's 11th album. The heme of the album is early music from the time of the travels of Marco Polo. It is one of the Renaissance's more eclectic works, covering not only the instrumental istanpittas of the Italian Trecento and earlier Franciscan laudas, but also Byzantine chant, girl songs from Cyprus preserved in the Manuscript 1203 kept in Iviron monastery, Persian and Arabic dances, traditional Music of Mongolia and Ancient Chinese ceremonial music. Marco Polo is one of the Ensemble's biggest successes, having spent a few weeks at the top of the classical music charts in Germany, in the 1993.