Offer, Heroines of Love and Loss
vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous continuo... — More…
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Gramophone MagazineMay 2017Editor's Choice
Contents
Kapsberger: Libro I d'intavolatura di chitarrone: Toccata Arpeggiata
- Jonas Nordberg (theorbo)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Purcell: Bonduca or The British Heroine - incidental music, Z574
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (archlute), Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Bonduca, Z. 574, "The British Heroine": No. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom
Excerpt,
- Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello), Jonas Nordberg (archlute)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 14, No. 9, RV 42: I. Prelude: Largo
Bennet: Venus' birds whose mournful tunes
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (lute), Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 14 No. 9, RV 42
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 14, No. 9, RV 42: II. Allemande: Andante
Strozzi: Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (theorbo), Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2: No. 14. L'eraclito amoroso
Piccinini: Chaconne
- Jonas Nordberg (theorbo)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Sessa: Occhi io vissi di voi
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (theorbo), Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
anon.: The Willow Song
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (lute), Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Caccini, F: Il primo libro delle musiche
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (theorbo), Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Il primo libro delle musiche: No. 3. Lasciatemi qui solo
Strozzi: Diporti di Euterpe Op. 7
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (theorbo), Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Diporti di Euterpe, Op. 7: No. 4. Lamento
Cello Sonata in G Minor, RV 42
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
III. Sarabande: Largo
IV. Gigue: Allegro
Vizzana: Componimenti musicali de motetti concertati
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (archlute), Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Componimenti musicali de motetti concertati: O magnum mysterium
Excerpt,
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (archlute), Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: When I am laid in earth, "Dido's Lament" (arr. for voice, archlute and cello)
anon.: O Death Rock me Asleep
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Jonas Nordberg (lute), Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann (cello)
- Recorded: April-May 2016
- Recording Venue: Länna Church