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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Purcell: Music for Pleasure and Devotion
Purcell: | The Indian Queen: Trumpet Overture to Act II Rondeau from Abdelazer The Gordion Knot Untied - incidental music, Z597: chaconne The Indian Queen, Z630: excerpts If music be the food of love Z379A (first version) Three Parts upon a Ground in D major - Z731 Close thine eyes and sleep secure, Z184 A Ground in Gamut in G major, Z 645 Rejoice in the Lord alway ('The Bell Anthem'), Z49 Voluntary in D minor, Z718 Man that is born of a woman, Z27 In the midst of life, Z 17a Thou knowest, Lord Fantazia 8 in D minor, Z. 739 Of all the instruments that are, Z263 The Fairy Queen, Z629: excerpts |
Henry Purcell is regarded as the first great master of English Baroque music, and his works find their best interpreters today in Andrew Parrott and his ensemble. Purcell's oeuvre features splendid works written for festive occasions at court as well as dramatic operas and melancholy lute songs. This recording offers a representative cross-section of the composer's work, whose popularity remains unbroken. | 
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| |  | Purcell: Anthems
Purcell: | They that go down to the sea in ships, Z57 Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes, Z135 My beloved spake, Z28 O sing unto the Lord, Z44 Lord, how long wilt thou be angry?, Z25 Who hath believed our report?, Z64 Behold, I bring you glad tidings, Z2 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust, Z16 Te Deum & Jubilate Deo in D, Z232 Funeral Sentances Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50 March and Canzona in C minor Thou knowest, Lord I was glad when they said unto me, Z19 O Lord God of hosts, Z37 O give thanks unto the Lord, Z33 |
Purcell wrote so much in so many different spheres of musical activity that it is easy to forget that one of his main tasks was to be a royal composer, to provide music for the occasions of State in Westminster Abbey, just as the Gabrielis had done for the Doge at St Mark’s, or Lully for the French monarchs at Versailles. One of the most notable – and highly praised – accounts of Purcell’s choral music came from the Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge, conducted by George Guest. They made three records for Argo – in 1964, 1972 and 1975 – covering Purcell’s Music for the Chapel Royal, a selection of Verse Anthems, the Te Deum and Jubilate and other works. The three are collected on a 2CD set. Texts are included in the booklet. “Vibrant readings of some of Purcell's best loved choral works unalloyed by 'authentic' prissiness” BBC Music Magazine, October 2012 **** “The impact of Inia Te Wiata's entry in They that go down to the sea in ships is almost sensational … Outstanding among the soloists is the counter-tenor, Charles Brett. The orchestral playing is sprightly, the choral singing polished” Gramophone Magazine “The performances are excellent. James Bowman is in splendid voice and he is well matched by Charles Brett (in this music, the others are really a supporting cast to the countertenors). The orchestra plays with its usual sensitivity of tone and nuance. As for Mr. Guest, he understands the Funeral Sentences in no mean manner, for it is easy to overdo the pain or to adopt the stiff upper lip, yet he manages to combine the two in goodly proportion” Gramophone Magazine | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Purcell & Macmillan - Bright Orb of Harmony
MacMillan: | O bone Jesu A Child's Prayer The Strathclyde Motets: Mitte manum tuam The Strathclyde Motets: Sedebit Dominus Rex | Purcell: | Miserere mei (canon 4 in 2), Z109 Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, 1695: Funeral Sentences (first set) Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes, Z135 Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50 Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, Z131 Let mine eyes run down with tears, Z24 O dive custos Auriacae domus, Z504 Thou knowest, Lord |
2009 is a year of anniversaries - the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Henry Purcell’s birth (1659), James MacMillan’s fiftieth birthday (16 July 2009) and The Sixteen’s thirtieth anniversary. To celebrate, the ensemble has recorded live a brand new disc of music dedicated to these most innovative of British composers. Purcell’s extraordinary use of harmony sounds as modern today as it must have sounded in the seventeenth century. Putting his heartfelt Funeral Sentences alongside James MacMillan’s powerfully emotive A Child’s Prayer, written in memory of the Dunblane Tragedy, and his hauntingly beautiful O bone Jesu (a piece originally commissioned by The Sixteen) will give the listener the chance to experience the true power of this music. “Purcell's funeral and penitential liturgical settings contain some of the most heart-rending music in the choral repertory. MacMillan's tribute to his 16th century fellow-Scot O bone Jesu… holds up well, building to a glowing ending which, like all the MacMillan pieces on this disc, shows how deeply this composer understands the expressive and acoustic possibilities of the a cappella choir. Best of all though is the exquisite miniature A Child's Prayer. Excellent performances, sensitively recorded.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2009 ***** “Christophers paces [Tradiderunt me] to perfection, enabling The Sixteen to luxuriate in its rich sonorities and shape effortless phrases, each apparently voiced on a single undying breath...This terrific release offers a nourishing blend of recent Macmillan, beautifully performed and recorded, spanning the gamut from prayer-like introspection and harmonic simplicity to festive outbursts and bravura melodic displays.” Classic FM Magazine, December 2011 ***** “These performances were recorded live during the opening concert of The Sixteen's 2009 Choral Pilgrimage to celebrate both Purcell's 350th birthday and Scottish composer James MacMillan's 50th. Thus, while the anthems, motets and the first set of Funeral Sentences by Purcell presented here definitely tend towards the sombre, and MacMillan's musical language often has recourse to a stark muscularity, the darkness invariably gives way to light in the form of ecstatic melismas and lucent major-mode harmonies.
Throughout, the choral sound is rich yet unfailingly transparent – as obvious in the opening Jehova quam multi sunt hostes mei of Purcell as in MacMillan's masterly O bone Jesu. But the solo work is equally impressive – listen, for example, to tenors Simon Berridge and Mark Dobell and bass Eamonn Dougan in Purcell's Let mine eyes run down with tears or sopranos Grace Davidson and Charlotte Mobbs in the same composer's splendid O dive custos.
Christophers's direction is, as always, forever alert to the relationship between words and music – especially close with these two composers – while ensuring the careful delineation of the overall musical structure and each phrase, period and paragraph within it. Some minor blemishes aside, 'Bright Orb of Harmony' deserves to be set among that constellation of previous dazzling recordings by an ensemble that is less a choir, more an institution.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Throughout, the choral sound is rich yet unfailingly transparent… the solo work is equally impressive - listen for example, to tenors Simon Berridge and Mark Dobell and bass Eamonn Dougan in Purcell's Let mine eyes run down with tears or sopranos Grace Davidson and Charlotte Mobbs in the same composer's splendid O dive custos. ..."Bright Orb of Harmony" deserves to be set among that constellation of previous dazzling recordings by an ensemble that is less a choir, more an institution.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2009 “Purity of voice, a tightly blended ensemble — the warming characteristics of Harry Christophers’s choir dominate this live recital, recorded in Guildford Cathedral. Four hundred years separate Purcell from James MacMillan, yet these composers suit each other, both skilled in penitential expression and harmonic daring. MacMillan commemorates the 1996 Dunblane shootings; the teenage Purcell writes Funeral Sentences — exquisite music in both cases.” The Times, 9th May 2009 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Perfect PeaceThe Soothing Harmony of Sacred Choral Music
anon.: | There is no rose | Byrd: | Sing joyfully Ave verum Corpus Haec dies | Campion: | Come, Holy Ghost | Farrant, R: | Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake Hide not thou thy face | Gibbons, O: | Drop, drop, slow tears O clap your hands | Mudd: | Let thy merciful ears, O Lord | Peerson: | O let me at thy footstool fall O God, that no time dost despise | Philips, P: | Ascendit Deus | Purcell: | Thou knowest, Lord | Tallis: | Salvator mundi Deus tuorum militum If ye love me O nata lux de lumine 5vv | trad.: | Pray that Jerusalem may have peace and felicity arr. Milton & Stubbs | Weelkes: | Hosanna to the Son of David |
The Richmond Consort, Linda Nottingham Soothing English sacred choral music from the Tudor and Stuart periods, by some of England’s finest composers. Perfect music to calm the soul, performed by the outstanding Richmond Consort. The consort is made up of singers who regularly perform in the UK’s most prestigious cathedrals and colleges. They specialise in early music both sacred and secular and perform regularly throughout the UK and the rest of Europe. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Reflection: Choral Music from Clare College Cambridge
Attwood, T: | Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire | Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben': Jesu, bleibet meine Freude | Byrd: | Ave verum Corpus O God give ear and do apply | Campion: | Never weather-beaten sail | Dering: | Jesu decus angelicum O vos omnes | Elgar: | Ave verum corpus, Op. 2 No. 1 | Farrant, R: | Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake | Franck, C: | Panis Angelicus | Goss, J: | O Saviour of the World O taste and see | Mozart: | Ave verum corpus, K618 | Parsons, R: | Ave Maria | Purcell: | Thou knowest, Lord | Sheppard, J: | In pace in idipsum | Tallis: | O nata lux de lumine 5vv If ye love me | Tye: | Give almes of thy goods |
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| |  | Tudor & Stuart SpiritMusic for Dancing and Dreaming
anon.: | Bonny Sweet Robin Matthew Spring (lute) | Bull, J: | The Duke of Brunswick's Alman Martin Souter (organ) Dr. Bull's Juel Martin Souter (organ) | Byrd: | All in a Garden Green Martin Souter (harpsichord) | Clarke, Jeremiah: | Trumpet Voluntary 'Prince of Denmark's March' The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman | Dowland: | Pavana Lachrymae (set by William Byrd) Martin Souter (harpsichord) | Grandi: | Domine ne in furore tuo Concertare, Jonathan Wainwright | Lanier: | The Marigold (Mark How the Blushful Morn) Sara Stowe (soprano), Matthew Spring (lute) | Lawes, W: | Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Sara Stowe (soprano), Matthew Spring (lute) | Locke: | Curtain Tune from The Tempest | Morley: | It was a lover and his lass Sara Stowe (soprano), Matthew Spring (lute) | Mundy, J: | Robin Martin Souter (organ) | Newman, m: | Pavyon Martin Souter (clavichord) | Playford: | Under The Greenwood Tree Michelene Wandor | Purcell: | Round'O, ZT 684, from Abdelazer Martin Souter (harpsichord) Thou knowest, Lord The King's Consort, Robert King When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas) | Rovetta: | Quam pulchra es Concertare, Jonathan Wainwright | Tomkins: | A sad Pavan for these distracted times Martin Souter (virginals) | trad.: | Greensleeves Sharon Lindo (recorder) |
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| |  | Treasures of English Church MusicA 2-CD set combining 'Faire is the heaven' (COLCD107) and 'Hail, gladdening Light' (COLCD113)
Amner: | Come, let's rejoice | anon.: | Rejoice in the Lord | Bairstow: | I sat down under his shadow | Britten: | A Hymn to the Virgin | Byrd: | Miserere mei Haec dies Ave verum corpus Bow thine ear | Dering: | Factum est silentium | Elgar: | They are at rest | Farrant, R: | Hide not thou thy face Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake | Gibbons, O: | O clap your hands Hosanna to the Son of David | Goss, J: | These are they which follow the Lamb | Harris, W: | Faire is the heaven Bring us, O Lord God | Howells: | Sing Lullaby A Spotless Rose Nunc dimittis | Morley: | Nolo mortem peccatoris | Parsons, R: | Ave Maria | Philips, P: | O beatum et sacrosanctum diem | Poston: | Jesus Christ the apple tree | Purcell: | Lord, how long wilt thou be angry?, Z25 Thou knowest, Lord Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15 Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50 | Rutter: | Loving Shepherd of thy sheep | Sheppard, J: | In manus tuas | Stanford: | Beati quorum via, Op. 38 No. 3 Justorum animae, Op. 38 No. 1 | Stone, R: | The Lord's Prayer | Tallis: | Loquebantur variis linguis If ye love me O nata lux de lumine 5vv | Tavener: | Hymn to the Mother of God Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God | Taverner: | Christe Jesu, pastor bone | Tomkins: | When David heard | Vaughan Williams: | O Taste and See O vos omnes | Walton: | What cheer? A Litany 'Drop, drop slow tears' | Wood, C: | Hail, gladdening Light |
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| |  | Ave Verum: Favourite Parish Anthems
Attwood, T: | Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire | Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben': Jesu, bleibet meine Freude | Batten: | O Praise the Lord | Byrd: | Sacerdotes Domini (from Gradualia 1607) Teach me, O Lord Ave verum Corpus | Campion: | Sing a song of joy Never weather-beaten sail | Davies, Walford: | God be in my head | Elgar: | Ave verum corpus, Op. 2 No. 1 | Farrant, R: | Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake Hide not thou thy face | Ford, T: | Almighty God who hast me brought | Franck, C: | Panis Angelicus | Goss, J: | O taste and see O Saviour of the World | Jacob, G: | Brothere James' Air | Mozart: | Ave verum corpus, K618 | Mundy, J: | O Lord the Maker | Purcell: | Thou knowest, Lord | Stone, R: | The Lord's Prayer | Tallis: | O nata lux de lumine 5vv | Wesley, S S: | Wash me throughly from my wickedness |
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| |  | Faire is the heavenMusic of the English Church
Britten: | A Hymn to the Virgin | Byrd: | Miserere mei Haec dies Ave verum corpus Bow thine ear | Farrant, R: | Hide not thou thy face Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake | Gibbons, O: | O clap your hands Hosanna to the Son of David | Harris, W: | Faire is the heaven | Howells: | Sing Lullaby A Spotless Rose | Parsons, R: | Ave Maria | Poston: | Jesus Christ the apple tree | Purcell: | Lord, how long wilt thou be angry?, Z25 Thou knowest, Lord Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15 | Stanford: | Beati quorum via, Op. 38 No. 3 | Tallis: | Loquebantur variis linguis If ye love me | Vaughan Williams: | O Taste and See | Walton: | What cheer? |
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| |  | Virgo GloriosaA stroll through baroque Europe
Cyrille Dubois (Treble), Alain Buet (Baritone) La Maîtrise de Caen, Robert Weddle Recorded June 1999 & July 2000 at Notre Dame de la Gloriette, Caen | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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