Browse: L'Oiseau Lyre (series)
L'Oiseau-Lyre is the specialist early music label from Decca. It has a fine reputation for quality recordings performed by renowned artists from the early music world. Artists include Andrew Parrott, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley and Christophe Rousset. Many of these recordings have been absent from the catalogue for several years. Now they are being re-mastered and re-issued.
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Handel: Messiah RecommendedRemastered 2014
Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliott & David Thomas
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford & The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, June 2014, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Christophe Rousset and his accomplished musicians play with flair and imagination and are superbly recorded. One of the best discs of its kind for the last three years — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Baroque Non-Vocal
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 11 & 13 Robert Levin
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Fink sings… with fervour and unassuming charm, supported by the sensitive playing of Il Giardino Armonico. This talented ensemble comes into its own in the five short instrumental pieces on... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Editor's Choice
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Bach: Magnificat Emma Kirkby (soprano), Judith Nelson (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (alto), Paul Elliot (tenor), David Thimas (bass), James Bowman (countertenor)
Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, Simon Preston, Christopher Hogwood
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Mozart: Wind Concertos Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Francis Kelly (harp), Danny Bond (bassoon)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV211 'Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht' (Coffee Cantata), etc. RecommendedEmma Kirkby, Rogers Covey-Crump & David Thomas
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
These two most delightful of Bach's secular cantatas here receive sparkling performances fully alive to the humour and invention of the music. The Coffee Cantata illustrates a family altercation... — More…
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Building A Library, October 2021, Also Recommended
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Rousset and his accomplished musicians play with flair and imagination and are superbly recorded. One of the best discs of its kind for the last three years. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Baroque Non-Vocal
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Handel: Messiah RecommendedJudith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliot, David Thomas
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
Stodge no more. In Christopher Hogwood's hands, Messiah was no longer a ponderous and portentous work, but something tightly sprung and which demanded your attention. — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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