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Shakespeare Songs
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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... — More…
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Offer, Perpetual Night
17th Century Ayres and Songs
Lucile Richardot (contralto)
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
The title may be ‘Perpetual Night’ but there’s absolutely nothing gloomy or unremitting about this delicious disc and its chiaroscuro play of shading and texture…Lawes and Locke may never quite... — More…
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The sound of Jakob Lindberg's lute, made by Sixtus Rauwolf in the last decade of the 16th century, is unusually warm...It a meticulously voiced recital that moves between court, theatre and tavern...Lindberg... — More…
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In Nomine: 16th Century English Music for Viols
Including the Complete Consort Music of Thomas Tallis
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It is one of the loveliest albums of English viol music I can remember hearing — More…
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A fascinating historical snapshot into the performing styles of early music during the mid 1950s. Thurston Dart secures neat playing but constant vibrato from the violins jars after a while. — More…
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Music For A While - Baroque Melodies
Anne Sofie Von Otter (Soprano), Jakob Lindberg (guitar & lute), Anders Ericson (theorbo) & Jory Vinikour (harpsichord & organ)
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Wadsworth's playing is sensitive and polished throughout, and he draws sumptuous velvet sounds from both the 10-course lute and the 14-course theorbo...Wadsworth's renditions of The Miller's... — More…
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Offer, Elizabethan lute songs & Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary
James Bowman, Robert Spencer, Dennis Nesbitt, Oliver Brookes, Norma Burrowes, Charles Brett & Robert Lloyd
The Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow
Pleasant 1970s accounts, though James Bowman’s countertenor voice has been overshadowed by recent, more flexible, rivals, and the perky but sedate speeds of the Birthday Odes now seem cautious. — More…
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Offer, The Artistry of Emma Kirkby
Emma Kirkby (soprano) with Jakob Lindberg (lute), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), Anthony Rooley (lute), Agnès Mellon (soprano), John Abberger (oboe), Thomas Georgi (viola d’amore), Lucas Harris (lute) & Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello)
London Baroque, Royal Academy of Music Baroque...
…it's often in the modest-looking pieces that she's at her most compelling. Robert Johnson's Full Fathom Five is 109 seconds of breathtaking stillness and beauty, Böddecker's Natus est Jesu... — More…
