Tippett: Music

This page lists all recordings of Music, by Michael Kemp Tippett (1905-98) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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Remember Your Lovers

Remember Your Lovers

Songs by Tippett, Britten, Purcell & Pelham Humfrey


Britten:

Canticle I - "My Beloved Is Mine And I Am His" Op. 40

Humfrey:

A Hymn to God the Father

(arr.Tippett & Walter Bergmann)

Purcell:

If music be the food of Love

(arr. Tippett & Walter Bergmann)

Music for a while, Z583

(arr. Tippett & Walter Bergmann)

Sweeter than roses

(arr. Tippett & Walter Bergmann)

An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193

(arr. Tippett & Walter Bergmann)

An Epithalamium (A Wedding Song)

(arr. Tippett & Walter Bergmann)

What shall I do?

(arr. Tippett & Walter Bergmann)

Twas within a furlong of Edinburgh Town

(arr. Tippett & Walter Bergmann)

Ah! How Sweet it is to Love

(arr. Tippett & Walter Bergmann)

Rondo (I attempt from love's sickness)

(arr. Tippett & Walter Bergmann)

Tippett:

The Heart's Assurance

Music

Songs for Ariel

Boyhood's End


John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano)

"Listen to the sheer quality of music-making as tenor John Mark Ainsley is alive to every halting breath of a song." The Times

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - January 2006

Signum - SIGCD066

(CD)

$17.49

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Tippett - Choral Works

Tippett - Choral Works


Tippett:

Music

The Weeping Babe

Plebs Angelica

Crown of the Year - Cantata for soprano and alto voices etc

Five Negro Spirituals from A Child Of Our Time

Dance, Clarion Air

Bonny at morn


Martin Jones (piano), Graham Ashton (trumpet), Peter Hamburger, Martin Westlake, Jeremy Cornes (percussion), Michael Copley, Maurice Hodges, Evelyn Nallen (recorders)

Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Medici String Quartet, Stephen Darlington

Nimbus - NI5266

(CD)

$17.49

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Sir Michael Tippett - Songs

Sir Michael Tippett - Songs


Tippett:

Music

The Heart's Assurance

Boyhood's End

Songs For Achilles

Songs For Ariel

Sweeter than roses

Purcell realisation

The fatal hour comes on apace

Purcell realisation

Mad Bess (From silent shades)

Purcell realisation

An Epithalamium (A Wedding Song)

Purcell realisation

If music be the food of love

Purcell realisations by Michael Tippett and Walter Bergman


Martyn Hill (tenor), Andrew Ball (piano), Craig Ogden (guitar)

'As the fullest representation at Tippett's solo vocal music in the catalogue this disc is a must, both for devotees of the composer and for collectors of English song' (BBC Music Magazine)

Hyperion - CDA66749

(CD)

$17.49

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Tippett - Vocal Music

Tippett - Vocal Music


Tippett:

Boyhood's End

The Heart's Assurance

Dance, Clarion Air

The Source

The Windhover

Lullaby

Bonny at morn

Four Songs from the British Isles

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis

Plebs Angelica

The Weeping Babe

Music

A Child of Our Time

Five Negro Spirituals from A Child Of Our Time

Songs for Achilles

Songs for Ariel

Songs for Dov

Byzantium

The Knot Garden


Jessye Norman (soprano), Faye Robinson (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Yvonne Minton (Thea), Jill Gomez (Flora), Josephine Barstow (Denise), Philip Langridge (tenor), Richard Cassilly (tenor), Robert Tear (tenor) & (Dov), Raimund Herincx (Faber), Thomas Carey (Mel), Thomas Hemsley (Mel), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), John Constable (piano) & Timothy Walker (guitar)

Schola Cantorum of Oxford, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Royal Opera House, Nicholas Cleobury, Sir Colin Davis, David Atherton & Sir Georg Solti

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Decca Collectors Edition - 4757172

(CD - 4 discs)

Normally: $28.99

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Sir Michael Tippett, 1905-1998: The Nimbus Recordings

Sir Michael Tippett, 1905-1998: The Nimbus Recordings


Tippett:

Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage

The Midsummer Marriage - Sosostris's Aria

Praeludium for brass, bells & percussion

Suite in D for the Birthday of Prince Charles

Dance, Clarion Air

The Weeping Babe

Plebs angelica

Bonny at morn

Crown of the Year - Cantata for soprano and alto voices etc

Music

Five Negro Spirituals from A Child Of Our Time

Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello & Orchestra 'Triple Concerto'

Piano Concerto

Concerto for double string orchestra

The Blue Guitar

Little Music for String Orchestra

Evening Canticles

Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli


Martino Tirimo (piano), Ernst Kovacic (violin), Gerard Caussé (viola), Alexander Baillie (cello), Craig Ogden (guitar)

Chorus of Opera North, English Northern Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic, Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Medici String Quartet, English String Orchestra, St. John's College Choir, Cambridge, Michael Tippett, William Boughton, George Guest

"Its (Nimbus's) commitment to preserving the composer's own readings of his music during his lifetime was noble, assiduous and beyond reproach ... The achievement, as revealed on this four-CD collection, a panoramic view of his output lasting in all nearly four and a half hours, is such as to renew our sense of Tippett's greatness and his lasting historical presence, and the sheer glory of his music." Nicholas Williams, BBC Music Magazine

Nimbus - NI1759

(CD - 4 discs)

$34.49

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British Choral Music of the Twentieth Century

British Choral Music of the Twentieth Century


Mathias:

I will celebrate

O how amiable, Op.90 No.3

Rex Gloriae - Four Latin motets, Op. 83

Canzonetta for organ, Op.78 No.2

Missa Aedis Christi, Op. 92

Jesus College Service, Op. 53

A Grace, Op. 89 No.3

Ave Rex

As truly as God is our Father

Let the people praise thee, O God

Tippett:

Dance, Clarion Air

The Weeping Babe

Plebs angelica

Bonny at morn

Crown of the Year - Cantata for soprano and alto voices etc

Music

Five Negro Spirituals from A Child Of Our Time

Vaughan Williams:

Mass in G minor

The blessed Son of God

No Sad Thought His Soul Affright

Lord, Thou has been our refuge

O Taste and See

Three Shakespeare Songs

An Oxford Elegy

Flos Campi

Te Deum in G

O Clap Your Hands (Psalm 47)

The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune

Walton:

A Litany 'Drop, drop slow tears'

Missa Brevis

Set me as a seal upon thine heart

Antiphon

Chichester Service

Jubilate Deo

Make we joy now in this fest

All this time

What cheer?

Where does the uttered music go?

The Twelve

King Herod and the Cock


Iain Simcock (organ), Martin Jones (piano), John Anderson (oboe), Stephen Farr (organ)

Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, English String Orchestra, Stephen Darlington

Comprising recordings spanning over six years work, this generously filled box set of British Choral Music is a fitting tribute to one of the best cathedral choirs in the world.

Nimbus - NI5691/5

(CD - 5 discs)

$37.99

In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day.

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