Tag: Henry Purcell
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Baroque Vocal Masterpieces
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Elegy: Music of Remembrance
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Music of Henry Purcell (The Complete Alfred Deller Vanguard Recordings, Volume 2)
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Fifty Shades of Opera – 50 Sensual Arias
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Arie Antiche
Remembering something joyfully special about those sessions; the place, the music, colleagues, little incidents, can flood back in as we listen ! In the case of anything made at Forde Abbey, this pleasure is guaranteed… Two or three years ago I returned for a concert there, and in the rehearsal, as I sang my first…
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The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – Royal Music from Westminster Abbey
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The Baroque Harp
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English Anthems from Oxford (Byrd to Britten)
John Harper leads the Magdalen College Choir in four centuries of church anthems by British composers.
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The English Anthem Anthology, Volume I (1540-1870)
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Famous Baroque Arias
Essential Baroque arias with period instrument accompaniment – a Gramophone rave “[An] enjoyable [anthology] of arias sacred and secular… performances that would be hard to better in expressivity, quality of tone and diction, intonation, control of vibrato, and absence of technical strain.… The recording is as clear as a frosty morning, the acoustic spacious, and…
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Favourite Hymns from Westminster Abbey
This recording by the Westminster Abbey Choir, conducted by Martin Neary, was made in 1997, the year of the 50th anniversary of the wedding in Westminster Abbey of HM The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh, and two hymns from their Golden Wedding Service are included – May the Grace of Christ our Saviour, to Studland…
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Stuart Age Music
This successful re-enactment ensemble brings “music from troubled times” – the arrival of the Scottish Kings, Catholicism and civil war. “Tunes from Troubled Times” brings to you songs and dances from the era of the Suart Monarchs; a period of bloody civil war, colourful kings and the lust for life of the common people. Songs and…
