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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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In My Heart of Hearts. Music in Shakespeare's Plays
Hannah Morrison (soloist), Marnix De Cat (soloist)
Hathor Consort, Romina Lischka
Here’s a fun concept, bringing together music that may well have accompanied Shakespeare’s magnificent plays, performed with elegance and verve by the Hathor Consort. — More…
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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The Music of Shakespeare
Music from around 1600 by Thomas Morley, William Byrd, Francis Cutting, Robert Jones, John Wilson, Giles Farnaby and Robert Johnson
Alba Musica Kyo
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Baroque Pop
Transcriptions and arrangements by Dániel Benkõ
Dániel Benkõ (guitar/lute), Dénes Gulyás (tenor), Katalin Pitti (soprano), Eszter Wierdl (soprano)
Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra, János Rolla
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Come Again Sweet Love
Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Carolyn Sampson, Emma Kirkby (sopranos), Charles Daniels (tenor)
This is deluxe casting, allowing combinations from unaccompanied lute songs to an a cappella duet, and lute solos to five-part madrigals...Taylor - with one of the loveliest countertenor voices... — More…
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Songs for William Shakespeare
Sara Stowe (soprano), Matthew Spring (lute, cittern, hurdy-gurdy), Sharon Lindo (Renaissance violin, recorder, pipe, tabor)
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A Golden Treasury of Elizabethan Music
The Broadside Band, Red Byrd, The Rose Consort of Viols, Fretwork, Sneak's Noyse, George Weigand (lute), The York Waits, Caroline Trevor (soprano), Richard Burnett (virginal), John Potter (tenor), The York Waites, Deborah Roberts (soprano)
An excellent introduction [...] the performances are all of the highest quality [...] the period instruments convey the vivid flavour of the music [...] the recorded sound is rich and warm [...]... — More…
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