L'Oiseau Lyre
L'Oiseau-Lyre is the specialist early music label from Decca. It has a fine reputation for quality recordings performed by renowned artists from the early music world. Artists include Andrew Parrott, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley and Christophe Rousset. Many of these recordings have been absent from the catalogue for several years. Now they are being re-mastered and re-issued.
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Handel: Messiah RecommendedRemastered 2014
Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliott & David Thomas
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford & The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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Bach: Magnificat Emma Kirkby (soprano), Judith Nelson (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (alto), Paul Elliot (tenor), David Thimas (bass), James Bowman (countertenor)
Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, Simon Preston, Christopher Hogwood
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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV211 'Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht' (Coffee Cantata), etc. RecommendedEmma Kirkby, Rogers Covey-Crump & David Thomas
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
These two most delightful of Bach's secular cantatas here receive sparkling performances fully alive to the humour and invention of the music. The Coffee Cantata illustrates a family altercation... — More…
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Building A Library, October 2021, Also Recommended
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Handel: Messiah RecommendedJudith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliot, David Thomas
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
Stodge no more. In Christopher Hogwood's hands, Messiah was no longer a ponderous and portentous work, but something tightly sprung and which demanded your attention. — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Italian Vocal Music Catherine Bott, Philip Pickett (recorder), Pavlo Beznosiuk (violins), Frances Kelly (harp), David Roblou (harpsichord) and Nigel North (lute, theorbo and guitar).
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Haydn Masses Judith Nelson, Margaret Cable, Carolyn Watkinson, Martyn Hill, David Thomas
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, Simon Preston
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JS Bach: Cantatas Nos. 56 & 82 John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Kenneth Heath (cello), George Malcolm (organ), Roger Lord (oboe), Roger Lord (cor anglais)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The St. Anthony Singers, Sir Neville Marriner
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Pachelbel's Canon and other Baroque Favourites Clare Shanks (oboe)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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