Magnatune the music-shareware house modestly declares, "We are not evil."
Try the 's La Estampida as a soundtrack for The Geste of Duke Jocelyn; for instance La Rotta, pure rhythm for measures and then a squeal of melody not totally unlike klezmer (if you aren't familiar with Early Music dance tones).
If you already like EM, you'll recognize a bunch of these tunes - I heard them on good old affordable Nonsuch when I was a wee, LP-hoarding squeaker. You will certainly have an opinion on the World Music/Academic Respectability divide. Dufay might be on the first hand of that false dichotomy, but I thought it was plausible enough, and by my tail and whiskers you can dance to it.
The classical offerings are mostly pre-1800. Maybe that's what the man of Magnatunes likes; maybe Sony avoids them; maybe it's hard to get an entire hundred-player orchestra to put their work up in this format. Lucky for me, though. Even paying more than they suggest for an album costs less than most do in stores.
So wrote clew in Music. | TrackBackBTW, you might be interested in knowing that the founder of Magnatune, John Buckman, has started a new blog at http://blogs.magnatune.com/buckman/
Ha, and 'a major label record exec was offended by the "we are not evil" slogan' at MIDEM. They're on the run, or at least looking over their shoulders.