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here's a disc disc to remember come all those end-of-year round-ups... There's a directness to Phan's delivery, a clarity to his diction that has previously found its home in Britten's text-driven... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Barbara Bonney - Fairest Isle
Barbara Bonney, Jacob Heringham, lute. Phantasm viol quartet
Academy of Ancient Music
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2001, Editor's Choice
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Purcell - Complete Secular Solo Songs
RecommendedBarbara Bonney (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), James Bowman (counter-tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass)
The King's Consort, Robert King (chamber organ, harpsichord)
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Building a Library, February 2014, Large Box Set Recommendation
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Purcell - Complete Secular Solo Songs Volume 3
Barbara Bonney (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass), Mark Caudle (bass viol), Susanna Pell (bass viol), David Miller (theorbo, archlute), Robert King (chamber organ, harpsichord)
The King's...
This third and last volume of Purcell's non- theatrical secular songs consummates a most rewarding survey of 87 songs with more of the same: a vocal palette of six singers who are by now so... —
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This is not quite a complete lexicon (there are no ‘mad songs’ for example) but it offers a worthy platform for the acclaimed musical and dramatic skills of Randall Scotting and Stephen Stubbs. —
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Supported with exceptional clarity by Jakob Lindberg, Kirkby conveys both intellectual appreciation and a deep emotional connection with the words in this recital...[her] 'Bess of Bedlam' is... —
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Alla reveals herself as what these days could almost be termed an 'old-fashioned' early music singer, which is to say bell-like in tone and fearless in the use of non-vibrato...she shows impressive... —
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Special offer. Purcell: The Cares of Lovers
Rowan Pierce (soprano), William Carter (theorbo)
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Pierce’s voice is delicious: clear, strong, supple, with sparkling top notes and a warm, textured middle and low register. She’s mistress of her words, bending vowels and clipping consonants... —
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Special offer. Sweeter Than Roses
Songs by Henry Purcell
Anna Dennis (soprano)
Ensemble Sounds Baroque, Julian Perkins
Anna Dennis sings Purcell with chaste beauty, dignified and cool as marble. —
