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ID: COR16005 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Baroque Subcollection: Choir |
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ID: COR16069 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Choral Collection Subcollection: Choir To celebrate their thirtieth anniversary, the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Henry Purcell’s birth (1659) and James MacMillan’s fiftieth birthday (16 July 2009), The Sixteen recorded live at the first concert on the 2009 Choral Pilgrimage a brand new disc of music dedicated to these most innovative of British composers. Purcell’s extraordinary use of harmony sounds as modern today as it must have sounded in the seventeenth century. Putting his heartfelt Funeral Sentences alongside James MacMillan’s powerfully emotive A Child’s Prayer, written in memory of the Dunblane Tragedy, and his hauntingly beautiful O bone Jesu (a piece originally commissioned by The Sixteen) will give the listener the chance to experience the true power of this music. |
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ID: COR16081 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection A Brand new recording of Elizabethan and Restoration Devotional Songs to the lute and theorbo by Thomas Campian, John Dowland, Pelham Humfrey & Henry Purcell.
Continuing its work with the rising stars of the early music world, CORO is delighted to be releasing a brand new recording by two of The Sixteen’s principal members - soprano, Elin Manahan Thomas and theorbo and lute player, David Miller.
The seventeenth century devotional songs on this disc were written against a backdrop of furious historical dramas and lurching tides of fortune. The songs chosen reflect these assorted times and contexts, and are accordingly diverse. Ravish’d with Sacred Extasies (a quote taken directly from Playford's ‘Harmonia Sacrae’) explores some of the most beautiful Elizabethan devotional songs ranging from the doctrinally eloquent to the theologically unsteady, from the spare and the restrained to the opulent and the overblown, from Dowland’s small cluster of late devotional songs to Purcell’s flowery and luscious settings. |
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ID: CP036 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Baroque Subcollection: Voice and Lute |
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ID: DCD34039 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Piano Edinburgh University’s Russell Collection is one of the world’s finest collections of early keyboard instruments. The second volume in John Kitchen’s ongoing project to bring its musical exhibits to life matches music by Handel, Purcell, the Scottish composer Robert Bremner and others including Mozart’s son Franz Xaver with a gloriously vigorous menagerie of spinets, virginals, chamber organs, clavichord and harpsichords.
Track listing
Three pieces from Robert Bremner’s The Harpsichord or Spinnet Miscellany
Bach, J C F:
Five pieces from Musikalische Nebenstunden
Blow:
Voluntary in C
Couperin, A-L:
Les Tendres Sentimens
L'Affligée
L'Enjouée
Graupner:
Four movements from Partita in E major 'November'
Handel:
Keyboard Suite, HWV 437 in D minor
Mozart, F X:
Deux Polonaises mélancoliques
Purcell:
Five pieces from Musick’s Handmaid
Rossi, M:
Toccata settima from 'Toccate e correnti d'intavolatura d'organo e cimbalo'
Tomkins:
A sad Pavan for these distracted times
John Kitchen, harpsichord, piano, organ |
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ID: DCD34057 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Harpsichord St Cecilia’s Hall is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, dating from 1763. In 1968 it became home to the Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments. This already world famous collection was further enhanced in 2005 when the University of Edinburgh received the extraordinary gift of 22 historic keyboard instruments from Rodger and Lynne Mirrey; the galleries at St Cecilia’s Hall now house one of the two most comprehensive collections of early keyboard instruments in the world. John Kitchen’s demonstration recital couples music with instrument in a way that informs and entertains.
Track listing
Double-manual harpsichord (4478), Luigi Baillon, Cyteux, 1755
Louis Couperin (1626-1661) 1-5 Suite in C major
Triple-fretted clavichord (4486), possibly Flemish, c. 1620
Two Renaissance dances anon. Dutch 16th century 6 Almande prynce, anon. early 16th century 7 Fusi pavana piana
Grand pianoforte (4492), Johann Friedrich Kuhlbörs, Breslau, c. 1805
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 8 Adagio in G (Hob. XV/22) 9 Fantasia in C (Hob. XVII/4)
Single-manual harpsichord (4479), Thomas Barton, London, 1709
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) 10-14 Suit of Lessons in C , John Blow (1649-1708) 15 Mortlack's Ground
Unfretted clavichord (4487), possibly Dresden, c.1740
Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667) 16 Lamento sopra la dolora perdita della Real Msta. Di Ferdinando IV, Ré de Romani
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) 17-19 Suite in F minor BWV 823
Virginal (4484), Honofrio Guarracino, Naples, 1678
Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) 20 Alemanda 21 Corrente
Single-manual harpsichord (4471), Bernardinus de Trasuntinis, Venice, 1574
William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) 22 Pavan: Bray [MB XXVIII, 59a, b] 23 Galliard,
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), 24 Toccata nona (1637)
Single-manual harpsichord (4473), Franciscus de Paulinis, Rimini, 1725
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) 25 Toccata decima in F
Grand pianoforte (4490), John Broadwood, London, 1793
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) 26-28 Three Songs Without Words
Total playing time [75:48] |
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ID: DCD34097 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Choral and Organ This ‘songbook’ is unique to the Schola Cantorum choristers of Tewkesbury Abbey. “Essentially, it's a showcase for the Abbey trebles,” their Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas explains. “We’ve been assembling our own Songbook for quite a while now - the songs the trebles sing, from time to time, in boys-only concerts, and that they are taught in individual singing lessons. I’ve always been keen to build each boy up as a soloist, not necessarily with the express idea of them singing lots of solos, but so that they can learn to sing in a soloistic way.”
This is evident most of all in the distinctive singing of 11- year-old Laurence Kilsby, whose gifts won him the BBC Chorister of the Year competition in 2009. On this recording, he features as soloist in two Shelley settings by Roger Quilter, the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria and in John Ireland’s beautiful, sincerely-felt Passiontide motet Ex Ore Innocentium from 1944.
Laurence Kilsby (treble), Helen Porter (piano), Carleton Etherington (organ)
The trebles of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas (director)
Track listing
1 Music, When Soft Voices Die
Roger Quilter
2 Vater Unser
Arvo Pärt
3 Fairest Isle (Address To Britain)
Henry Purcell
4 Love’s Philosophy
Quilter
5 The Land Of Spices
Gabriel Jackson
6 Whispers
Howard Skempton
7 O Salutaris Hostia
Léo Delibes
8 Ex Ore Innocentium
John Ireland
9 The Flower
Philip Wilby
10 A Song At Evening
Richard Rodney Bennett
11 Ave Maria
J.S. Bach / Charles Gounod
12 Nymphs And Shepherds
Purcell
13 Dutch Carol
James MacMillan
14 I Will Give My Love An Apple
trad., arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
15 Linden Lea
Vaughan Williams
16 Dirge For Fidele
Vaughan Williams
17 Somewhere
Leonard Bernstein
18 Sure On This Shining Night
Samuel Barber
19 At The River
Robert Lowry, arr. Aaron Copland
20 The Lord’s Prayer
John Tavener, arr. Barry Rose
21 Wedding Introit
MacMillan
22 I Sing Of A Maiden
Patrick Hadley
23 Skye Boat Song
trad., arr. Percy Grainger
24 How Can I Keep From Singing?
Lowry, arr. John Scott
Total playing time [66:42] |
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ID: DRC1018 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
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ID: DSPRCD055 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Folk Music This is a wonderful collection of English song and folk song including Annabel Lee, Linden Lea, Blow the
Wind Southerly and Sea Fever recorded by some of the greatest British singers including Thomas Allen, Stuart Burrows and Valerie Masterson.
1 - 3 Stuart Burrows,tenor
4 - 6 Valerie Masterson, soprano
7 - 9 Thomas Allen, baritone
10 - 12 Sarah Walker, mezzo-soprano
13 - 15 Peter Jeffes, tenor
16 - 18 Raimund Herincx, baritone
19 - 23 Patricia White, voice / Jonathan Rees, violin |
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