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Presto CD - Gaudeamus
The focus is firmly on early music for this week's batch of Presto CDs, as we turn our attention to ASV and restore forty titles from their acclaimed Gaudeamus series: we've received quite a few requests for the missing links in The Cardinall’s Musick's Fayrfax and Byrd discs in particular, and there are also some fine recordings from the likes of The Clerks' Group, Magnificat, The Band of Instruments, and the choirs of New College Oxford and Gonville & Caius College Cambridge. Full details below!
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The Hanover Band perform works by Carl Friedrich Abel, Thomas Arne, John Collett, Thomas Erskine, John Marsh and William Smethergell.
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Works by Richard Allison, Edward Collard, Dowland, Jacob van Eyck, John Pavlett, Susato and Tallis, with artists including soprano Mhairi Lawson and lutenist Jacob Heringman.
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Trio Sonnerie perform sonatas and divisions by JS Bach, Giovanni Bassano, GB Fontana and Marin Marais.
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Under the direction of Edward Wickham, The Clerks' Group sing music by Barbireau, Obrecht and Pipelare.
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The Choir of New College Oxford (including treble soloist William Purefoy, now an acclaimed countertenor) join forces with the The Hanover Band.
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Volume Two in The Cardinall’s Musick's acclaimed Byrd series under the direction of Andrew Carwood includes the Propers for Christmas Day and early Latin church music.
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Volume Three features the Propers for the Epiphany and Philippe de Monte's 'Super flumina Babylonis'.
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Volume Four focuses on the Cantiones Sacrae 1575.
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Volume Five includes three cornerstones of early English repertoire: the Masses in Three, Four and Five Parts.
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New Chamber Opera and The Band of Instruments under Gary Cooper perform Les Fous divertissants and Le Mariage forcé.
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Geoffrey Webber directs the Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge in psalms, canticles and anthems including Sing we Merrily and O Lord, grant the King a long life.
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Charivari Agréable in music by François Couperin, Antoine Forqueray, Louis de Caix d'Hervelois and Nicholas Siret.
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Tenor Rufus Muller and lutenist Christopher Wilson perform songs including 'Can she excuse my wrongs?', 'Come, heavy sleep' and 'Go crystal tears'.
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David Titterington plays the organ of The Dutch Church in London.
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Andrew Carwood directs The Cardinall's Musick and The Frideswide Consort in works including the Missa "Tecum principium", 'O lux beata trinitas' and 'Maria plena virtute'.
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The Missa Albanus is the centrepiece, with Latin motets including 'Ave lumen gratiae' and 'Aeternae Laudis Lilium'.
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Richard Harvey plays works by Girolamo Dalla Casa, William Croft, Jacob van Eyck, Jean-Marie Leclair, Gottfried Finger, Handel and Vivaldi.
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James Johnstone plays a programme of preludes, fantasias, pavans, galliardes and more, including 'Whoop, do me no harm, good man' and 'Peascod Time'.
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The Four Nations Ensemble perform works including Handel's 'Mi palpita il cor' and Vivaldi's Trio Sonata 'La Folia'.
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Soprano Christine Brandes and oboist Geoffrey Burgess join The Four Nations Ensemble for works including excerpts from Handel's Neun deutsche Arien.
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The Music Collection perform Hummel's Piano Quintet, Trio in E flat and Sonata for Piano with Viola.
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Andrew Mackay directs The Sarum Consort.
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John Kitchen plays a selection of works by Byrd's Scottish contemporary William Kinloch, including Jhonstounis delyt and Sussanna (un jour).
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Playing a pedal-harp, Jan Walters performs sonatas and other works by the Czech composer and harpist Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz.
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Flautists Nancy Hadden and Elizabeth Walker in a programme of suites, sonatas and shorter works by the early eighteenth-century French composer.
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Andrew Carwood and David Skinner direct The Cardinall's Musick in works including the Missa Per arma iustitie and 'Ave Dei patris filia'.
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Sonnerie (Monica Huggett, Gary Cooper, Emilia Benjamin and Alison McGillivray) perform the two quartets, plus an arrangement of the Quintet for Piano and Winds.
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Edward Wickham directs The Clerks' Group in music by Ockeghem, Busnois, Isaac and Obrecht.
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Edward Wickham directs The Clerks' Group in music by Ockeghem, Robert Morton and Philippe Basiron.
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Philip Cave directs Magnificat in canticles and anthems including 'How are the mighty fallen', 'When David heard' and 'In guilty night'.
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Geoffrey Webber directs The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge in works including 'In Exitu Israel', 'Ostende nobis Domine' and 'Tu es sacerdos'.
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Musica Fabula perform a selection Sances's secular works including 'Lagrimosa beltà', 'Occhi, occhi miei cari' and 'Rapitemi, feritemi'.
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Harpist Jan Walters joins Musica Fabula for this sacred programme, which includes the motets 'Vulnerasti cor meum', 'Plagae tuae Domine' and 'O Maria Dei Genetrix'.
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Walters is again the guest harpist (with sopranos Sarah Pillow and Liliana Mazzarri) on this disc of Sances's sacred songs, which also includes works by Bartolotti and Mayone.
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The Four Nations Ensemble perform four trio sonatas.
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Tim Rayborn (voice) and Shira Kammen (vielle) perform works by The Monk of Montaudon.
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Bell'Arte Antiqua perform works by Purcell, Young, Lawes, Jenkins and Locke.
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Bell'Arte Antiqua perform works by Geminiani, Lonati, Corelli, Matteis the Elder, Veracini and Vivaldi.
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Anthony Rooley directs The Consort of Musicke.
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Andrew Carwood directs The Cardinall's Musick in works including Missa Gaudeamus, Missa Pro Victoria and a selection of Latin motets.
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