-
Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
-
ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
-
Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
-
-
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...
Awards:
-
Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
-
Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Awards:
-
Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Chamber Music Recording
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
English Madrigals
Works by Gibbons, Wilbye and Morley
Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb & Rogers Covey Crump
Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley
-
The World of Elizabethan Music
Peter Pears (tenor), Julian Bream (lute), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute), Christopher Hogwood (virginals), Nigel North (lute), Judith Nelson (soprano), Mary Beverly (soprano), David James (countertenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), David Thomas (bass), Academy of Ancient Music
-
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Flower of Cities All
Music in London 1580-1620
The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, William Lyons
These are enjoyable and polished performances, albeit rather reserved. —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Shakespeare's Musick - Song And Dances From Shakespeare's Plays
Libby Crabtree (soprano), Rachel Elliott (soprano), Jacob Heringman (lute), Rosalind Waters (soprano), Gary Cooper (harpsichord, virginals), Roderick Williams (baritone), Jeanette Ager (mezzo-soprano), Meredith Hall (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Musicians Of The Globe, Philip Pickett
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Special offer. Elizabethan lute songs & Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary
James Bowman, Robert Spencer, Dennis Nesbitt, Oliver Brookes, Norma Burrowes, Charles Brett & Robert Lloyd
The Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow
Pleasant 1970s accounts, though James Bowman’s countertenor voice has been overshadowed by recent, more flexible, rivals, and the perky but sedate speeds of the Birthday Odes now seem cautious. —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide
