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Purcell: | Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z353 Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams Z355 The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 I loved fair Celia, Z381 I resolve against cringing and whining, Z386 I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z388 If music be the food of love Z379A In vain we dissemble, Z385 Hears not my Phillis how the birds ('The Knotting Song'), Z371 My heart, wherever you appear Z399 Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400 O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes Z402 On the brow of Richmond Hill Z405 Rashly I swore I would disown Z411 She loves and she confesses too, Z413 Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570 What a sad fate is mine, Z428A When my Aemelia smiles, Z434 Who can behold Florella's charms?, Z441 Since from my dear Astrea's sight (from Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627) The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper: Retir'd from any mortal's sight, Z581 I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen) Celia has a thousand charms from The Rival Sisters, or The Violence of Love, Z609 Music for a while, Z583 |
Maarten Koningsberger (baritone) & Fred Jacobs (theorbo) “…Koningsberger's innate musicality and subtle intelligence are evident in every phrase. …one has only to listen to the delicate vocal colourings in "Music for a while", the skilfully realised connotations of melancholy and vanitas in "If music be the food of love" and the semantically apposite executive of the ornamentation in "I attempt from love's sickness to fly" to realise the extent of Koningsberger's interpretative gifts. Add to all... Jacob's utterly sympathetic theorbo accompaniments and you have one of the best Purcell recitals to have hit the shelves in years.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2009 “Koningsberger's singing is sensitive, expressive in arioso, rhythmical in measured songs. 26 delightful songs but better sampled than absorbed in one go.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2012 **** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Purcell - Complete Secular Solo Songs Volume 3
Purcell: | She loves and she confesses too, Z413 Amintas, to my grief I see, Z356 Corinna is divinely fair, Z365 Amintor, heedless of his flocks, Z357 He himself courts his own ruin, Z372 No, to what purpose should I speak?, Z468 Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair, Z512 Lovely Albina's come ashore, Z394 Spite of the godhead, pow'rful love, Z417 If Music be the Food of Love, Z. 379C Phyllis, I can ne'er forgive it, Z408 Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360 From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370 Let formal lovers still pursue, Z391 I came, I saw, and was undone, Z375 Who can behold Florella's charms?, Z441 Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367 If pray'rs and tears, Z380 In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384 Let us, kind Lesbia, give away, Z466 Love is now become a trade, Z393 Ask me to love no more, Z358 O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406 Olinda in the shades unseen, Z404 Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Z410 When Strephon found his passion vain, Z435 The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 Sawney is a bonny lad, Z412 Young Thirsis' fate, Z473 |
Barbara Bonney (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass), Mark Caudle (bass viol), Susanna Pell (bass viol), David Miller (theorbo, archlute), Robert King (chamber organ, harpsichord) The King's Consort 'Those who need all of Purcell's songs at their fingertips should invest in Hyperion's three-disk survey of secular songs, with outstanding performances by Barbara Bonney, Rogers Covey-Crump and James Bowman' (The New York Times) “This third and last volume of Purcell's non- theatrical secular songs consummates a most rewarding survey of 87 songs with more of the same: a vocal palette of six singers who are by now so steeped in the nuances of Purcell's strains that even the slightest offering sparkles with something memorable. The treasure is shared between Barbara Bonney and Susan Gritton who complement each other superbly.
Gritton, becoming more refined in characterisation and tonal colour by the day, is allotted the free-style and dramatic pieces while to Bonney's fluid and sensual melisma is designated the more strophic or cantabile settings. Lovely Albina's comeashore is one of the composer's most mature creations, tantalisingly hinting at a new, tautly designed and classically balanced type of song.
This work, If music be the food of love (the best of the three versions) and I came, I saw are striking examples of how exceptionally Bonney negotiates Purcell's skipping and curling contours and makes these songs sound even finer creations than we previously thought. From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') is Purcell's quintessential mad-song and Gritton has the measure of it all the way; packed full of incident, imagery and musical detail, her narration is clear and finely judged, reporting the tale with irony and change of colour. The CD is beautifully documented.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | To touch, to kiss, to dieEnglish Songs of Purcell, Matteis & Dowland
Dowland: | Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15 Come again, sweet love doth now invite I saw my Lady weepe Flow my teares (Lacrimæ) Say love if ever thou didst find | Matteis the Elder: | A Collection of New Songs (1696-1692) | Poole, A: | S. Justinas for viola da gamba solo | Purcell: | If music be the food of love, Z379 She loves and she confesses too, Z413 I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen) Music for a while, Z583 A New Ground in E minor, Z. T682 Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585) O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406 |
Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor), Olga Watts (harpsichord), Axel Wolf (lute), Pavel Serbin (baroque cello) Johann Adolph Hasse: Reloaded (OC830 featuring Valer Barna-Sabadus) was enthusiastically reviewed by critics and was included on the German Record Critics’ ‘Best List’. This title was recorded in September 2012 and features an all English programme of songs, beautifully sung and recorded in the Himmelfahrtskirche in Munich. “Barna-Sabadus's strikingly high countertenor displays alluring tone rather than clear diction. He's stylishly accompanied” BBC Music Magazine, June 2013 **** | 
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| |  | Miriam Allan sings Handel & Purcell
Miriam Allan (soprano) Ironwood Miriam Allan made her Glyndebourne debut in 2009 in Purcell’s Fairy Queen and her Monteverdi concerts with Les Arts Florissants sold out in London and Paris. Ironwood is an innovative Australian ensemble committed to historically informed performance. “Alla reveals herself as what these days could almost be termed an 'old-fashioned' early music singer, which is to say bell-like in tone and fearless in the use of non-vibrato...she shows impressive agility in the passagework of 'Date serta' but in general she still needs to take greater interpretative command and find a more generous way of shaping phrases.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Orpheus in England
Dowland: | Disdain me still Lend your eares to my sorrow good people Come heavy sleep Preludium The Earl of Essex's Galliard A Shepherd in a Shade By a fountain where I lay Away with these self-loving lads Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15 Tarleton's Riserrectione If that a sinner's sigh A Fantasie Toss not my soul In darkness let me dwell | Purcell: | She loves and she confesses too, Z413 They tell us that your mighty powers, Z630 Trumpet Tune in C major, ZT 678, called the Cibell Echo Dance of the Furies (from Dido & Aeneas) Ritornello ‘The Grove’ Fly swift ye hours, Z369 O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574) What a sad fate is mine, Z428 A New Irish Tune Z646 A New Irish Tune Z646 A New Scotch Tune Z 655 Hornpipe A New Ground in E minor, Z. T682 From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370 Music for a while, Z583 |
Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg have devised a programme which takes in a wide spectrum of emotions: from the pastoral joyfulness of By a fountain and the melancholy of In darkness let me dwell, we are led via the desperation and drama of Bess of Bedlam to the conviction expressed in Music for a while that music has the power to vanquish even death. Interspersing the songs are lute solos, including Dowland’s immortal Lachrimae, but also Lindberg’s own transcriptions of Purcell pieces such as The Cibell and the Echo Dance of the Furies from Dido and Aeneas, performed on Lindberg’s unique four-hundred year old instrument. Kirkby and Lindberg are musical partners of long standing, with earlier collaborations on BIS including Musique and Sweet Poetrie (BISSACD1505), a survey of the lute song across Europe around the year 1600. ‘A grand tour conducted by a pair of ideal guides’ was how the reviewer in Gramophone described that disc, while his colleague in International Record Review found that the ‘undeniably glorious performances’ made the disc ‘a journey well worth making’. “Supported with exceptional clarity by Jakob Lindberg, Kirkby conveys both intellectual appreciation and a deep emotional connection with the words in this recital...[her] 'Bess of Bedlam' is more sympathetic than most, and her 'Music for a While' is more enigmatic. The voice may be less beautiful than it was, but her singing is more beautiful than ever.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2011 **** “Few singers are quite a compelling with only a lute for company: Kirkby's phrasing has impeccable light and shade, and her authoritative articulation of melancholic sentiments is simply first-class...her gripping interpretation [of In darkness let me dwell] is devoid of complacence; moreover, her intonation and technique in florid music has lost none of its sparkle and precision.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2011 “Kirkby embellishes with taste and discretion...Both [she] and Lindberg are especially good here in the last Dowland item, 'In darkness let me dwell'...the tempo well judged, the lute part a translucent garment draped over Kirkby's highly expressive delivery.” International Record Review, May 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Primavera!
The myth of springtime is a brilliant metaphor for love, an ever-inspiring subject for pœts and musicians. This recording assembles a tapestry of tiny pœtic and musical gems from sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Italy, England, and France. Youth, beauty, and love are their inspiration. Some are well-known, some rescued from dusty library volumes, and others remain part of our folk culture and are reborn in this collection in new forms. Perhaps music, as the most temporal of the arts, is the most appropriate medium to express the transience of the subject at hand | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Purcell - Complete Secular Solo Songs
Purcell: | Draw near, you lovers Z462 While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep, Z437 Love, thou canst hear, tho' thou art blind, Z396 I loved fair Celia, Z381 What hope for us remains now he is gone? Z472 Pastora's beauties when unblown Z407 Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570 Urge me no more, Z426 Farewell, all joys Z368 If music be the food of love Z379A (first version) Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams Z355 They say you're angry Z422 Let each gallant heart Z390 This poet sings the Trojan wars ('Anacreon's Defeat') Z423 Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z353 My heart, wherever you appear Z399 On the brow of Richmond Hill Z405 Rashly I swore I would disown Z411 Since the pox or the plague Z471 Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z461 Musing on cares of human fate Z467 Whilst Cynthia sung, all angry winds lay still Z438 How I sigh when I think of the charms of my swain Z374 Ye happy swains, whose nymphs are kind Z443 Beware, poor shepherds Z361 See how the fading glories of the year Z470 Cease, anxious world, your fruitless pain Z362 O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes Z402 I love and I must ('Bell Barr'), Z382 When her languishing eyes said 'Love!', Z432 Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400 Ah! cruel nymph, you give despair, Z352 Sylvia, now your scorn give over, Z420 Since one poor view has drawn my heart, Z416 I resolve against cringing and whining, Z386 Gentle shepherds, you that know the charms, Z464 If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z378 She that would gain a faithful lover, Z414 Fly swift ye hours, Z369 Hears not my Phillis how the birds ('The Knotting Song'), Z371 Phillis, talk no more of passion, Z409 Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her, Z364 In vain we dissemble, Z385 When my Aemelia smiles, Z434 Farewell, ye rocks, ye seas and sands, Z463 What a sad fate is mine, Z428A I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z388 Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance, Z395 How delightful's the life of an innocent swain, Z373 She, who my poor heart possesses, Z415 Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, Z392 When first my shepherdess and I, Z431 Through mournful shades and solitary groves, Z424 If music be the food of love (second version), Z379B Scarce had the rising sun appear'd, Z469 Who but a slave can well express, Z440 High on a throne of glitt'ring ore, Z465 Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383 She loves and she confesses too, Z413 Amintas, to my grief I see, Z356 Corinna is divinely fair, Z365 Amintor, heedless of his flocks, Z357 He himself courts his own ruin, Z372 No, to what purpose should I speak?, Z468 Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair, Z512 Lovely Albina's come ashore, Z394 Spite of the godhead, pow'rful love, Z417 If music be the food of love, third version, Z379C Phyllis, I can ne'er forgive it, Z408 Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360 From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370 Let formal lovers still pursue, Z391 I came, I saw, and was undone, Z375 Who can behold Florella's charms?, Z441 Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367 If pray'rs and tears, Z380 In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384 Let us, kind Lesbia, give away, Z466 Love is now become a trade, Z393 Ask me to love no more, Z358 O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406 Olinda in the shades unseen, Z404 Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Z410 When Strephon found his passion vain, Z435 The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 Sawney is a bonny lad, Z412 Young Thirsis' fate, Z473 |
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