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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... — More…
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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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Special offer. A Painted Tale
Nicholas Phan (tenor), Michael Leopold (lute), Ann-Marie Morgan (viola da gamba)
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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, 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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Sopranos Emily Owen and Jenni Harper are at their best in the duet from Dioclesian, ‘O the sweet delights of love’, where they control the waves of ecstasy with technical aplomb and conviction,... — More…
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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... — More…
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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. — More…
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Primavera!
Suzie LeBlanc (soprano), Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor), Les Voix Humaines: Susie Napper & Margaret Little (violas da gamba)
with Sylvain Bergeron (lute), Olivier Brault (violin), Francis Colpron (recorders, traverso), Vincent Dhavernas (percussion), Matthias Maute (recorder), Hélène Plouffe...
