What's the oldest music you've listened to?
 

In my first review for the Psychedelia Album Club I noted that an album from the sixties was one of my earliest reviews, but then I thought no, I've listened to music older than that. After all, Mozart, Vivaldi, much classical music goes back to the fifteenth/sixteenth century. And who hasn't heard that classic from the Stone Age, Ugh and the Cavemen's "Finger painting", with such gems as "You my woman", "You my woman II: Draggin' her back" and of course who could forget "Me hunt you cook"?

But what's the earliest music you've listened to? How far back can you go?

1600s. Vivaldi, Handel, and Bach.

I listen to Carlo Gesualdo of the late 1500s regularly. He was way ahead of his time. I've listened to one piece supposedly from 1000 CE but it wasn't very memorable.

Pretty old stuff here. ;)

I'd say the furthest ive gone is 1940 or 1920 with Django's stuff, i may have have listened to older stuff but i didn't really keep track when it was recorded.

Musical Instructions For "Lipit-Istar, King Of Justice", approximateöy 1950 B.C., performed by Ensemble De Organographia.

(It's boring.)

What would you recommend by Gesualdo? There are surprisingly many albums.

I've listened to Wagner before and some Bach. Haven't explored older music too much though.

Nothing I've heard was recorded in the 16th century, so probably '20s.

Carlo Gesualdo: Integral Madrigals for Five Voices: Libros 1-6 performed by Noel Akchote is my favourite.