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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Building a Library, June 2014, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Christophe Rousset and his accomplished musicians play with flair and imagination and are superbly recorded. One of the best discs of its kind for the last three years — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Baroque Non-Vocal
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Mozart - The Violin Concertos
Simon Standage (violin)
The Academy of Ancient Music (on authentic instruments), Christopher Hogwood
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Mozart: Wind Concertos
Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Francis Kelly (harp), Danny Bond (bassoon)
The Academy of Ancient Music, 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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Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Christophe Coin (cello)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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