Tag: Traditional
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Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne
“It was Davrath who pioneered (the first) complete recording of Canteloube’s delightful settings of songs from the Auvergne region of France…her voice has a lovely, sweet purity and freedom, she also brings a special kind of colour and life to these infinitely varied settings…accompaniments are freshly idiomatic, warm but not over-upholstered, and this CD transfer…
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Back to Ireland – Irish Songs & Ballads for Tenor
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Chants from Services: Christmas, Easter, Whitsun
“The nuns of Argentan produced an extended series of impressive and important chant recordings” “The singing is well controlled and reaches their customary high standard … characterized by a breadth and firmness not usually found in all-female ensembles. They have a quite remarkable power of sustaining a long and complex melodic line.” -Gramophone
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Folksongs by Alfred Deller: The Three Ravens; The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies
“wonderfully fresh and immediate in sound, with no ambience that spoils the feeling of having the singer almost at one’s side… intimate and natural, sympathetic without being reverberant….all with a taste for early music, so much of which was being rediscovered at that time. And it was a good time: not so knowledgeable and experienced…
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Sacred Songs & Ballads
This recording includes many favourite spiritiuals, including Swing Low Sweet Chariot and also other favourites such as Bless This House and Jerusalem. It features many well-known and well-loved artists – Kathleen Ferrier, Mario Lanza, Joan Hammond, Paul Robeson and more.
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A Christmas Fanfare
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Favourite Ballads of Yesteryear
The songs in this collection form part of a rich, yet sometimes unfairly derided, heritage of music made popular in the Victorian era throughout the English-speaking world. The recording contains all the great singers of Victorian and Edwardian ballads with many favourites on one quality CD.
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Scarborough Fair – Folk Songs For Tenor
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Russian Orthodox Chant from Odessa Seminary
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Middle Ages Music
Attractive quality performances in excellent sound, of a lively selection of 22 pieces. These throw a light on the variety of music including instrumental dances which represent the period 1200-1480.
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Steal Away to Jesus – Spirituals and Prières
This collection includes the highly successful & interesting arrangements of popular spirituals, plus the lovely Four Prieres for St Francis of Assisi by Poulenc, amongst a good variety of music ideal for varied male voice harmonies
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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…
