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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 A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, Z359 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 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 fly 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 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Art Of Alfred DellerClassic Vanguard Recordings
Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré (lute), Walter Bergman (harpsichord), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) The Deller Consort, Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra, Ensemble of Baroque Instruments, Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Sweet Power of Song
Aubert, L: | Cache-cache | Balfe: | Trust Her Not | Beethoven: | Sweet power of songs, WoO 152/2 The Elfin Fairies, WoO. 154 No. 1 Oh! would I were but that sweet linnet, WoO. 154 No. 9 English Bulls or The Irishman in London WoO. 152 No. 12 | Berlioz: | Pleure, pauvre Colette Le Trébuchet | Brahms: | Duette (4), Op. 61 | Britten: | Two Ballads for two voices and piano | Chausson: | Deux Duos, Op. 11 | Delibes: | Les Trois Oiseaux | Fauré: | Pleurs d'or Op. 72 Tarentelle Op. 10 No. 2 | Gounod: | D'un coeur qui t'aime L'Arithmétique La Siesta | Massenet: | Rêvons c'est l'heure Joie! | Mendelssohn: | Wasserfahrt, Op. 50 No. 4 Volkslied, Op. 63 No. 5 Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2 Neue Liebe, Op. 19a No. 4 Abendlied 'Wenn ich auf dem Lager' (Heine) Maiglöckchen und die Blümelein, Op. 63 No. 6 | Paladilhe: | Au bord de l'eau | Purcell: | Sound the trumpet, beat the drum, Z335 I attempt from Love's sickness fly Lost is my quiet for ever Fairest Isle What can we poor females do? | Quilter: | It was a lover and his lass | Rossini: | La Pesca Anzoleta co' passa la regata La promessa Duetto buffo di due gatti (Comic Duet for Two Cats) | Saint-Saëns: | Pastorale El Desdichado | Schumann: | Er ist's! Op. 79 No. 23 (Eduard Mörike) Frühlingslied Op. 79/19 Schneeglöckchen, Op. 79 No. 26 Das Glück Op. 79/16 | Sullivan: | Coming Home |
Felicity Lott, Ann Murray & Graham Johnson (piano) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Songs and Airs by Purcell
Purcell: | O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406 Ah! how sweet it is to love (from Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr, Z613) Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400 Stript of their green Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), Z196 If music be the food of love Hark! The Echoing Air (From The Fairy Queen) The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383 Sweeter than Roses Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367 From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370 Dear pretty youth From Rosy Bowers (From Don Quixote) Now that the sun hath veil'd his light Beneath a poplar's shadow I attempt from Love's sickness fly Let us dance Fairest Isle Nymphs and Shepherds Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams Z355 Love in their little veins inspires Fly swift ye hours, Z369 They tell us that your mighty powers Plainte: O, Let Me Weep In the black dismal dungeon of despair, Z190 See, even Night herself is here Why should men quarrel? Seek not to know The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper: Retir'd from any mortal's sight, Z581 To arms, heroic Prince O lead me to some peaceful gloom Halcyon days Bid the virtues (Come, ye Sons of Art) Lord, what is man?, Z192 Music for a while, Z583 Sawney is a bonny lad, Z412 When I have often heard young maids complaining Ah! cruel, bloody fate Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth |
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| |  | English Love Songs
Barlow, S: | If thou would’st ease thine heart | Bridge: | Come to Me in my Dreams Love went a-riding | Britten: | Down by the Salley Gardens Wild with passion (Beddoes) | Butterworth, G: | With rue my heart is laden When I was one-and-twenty | Dowland: | Awake, sweet love Come again, sweet love doth now invite | Finzi: | To Lizbie Browne I Said to Love, Op. 19b | Handel: | Silent Worship (based on an aria from Tolomeo) Where'er you walk (from Semele) | Haydn: | Piercing Eyes, Hob. XXVIa:35 Pleasing Pain, Hob. XXVIa:29 | Ireland: | If we must part Love is a sickness full of woes | Purcell: | I attempt from Love's sickness fly If music be the food of love | Quilter: | Go, lovely Rose, Op. 24 No. 3 (Edmund Wailer) Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley) | Vaughan Williams: | Silent Noon Love bade me welcome | Warlock: | Take, O take those lips away Thou gav'st me leave to kiss |
Mark Stone (baritone) & Stephen Barlow (piano) This excellent release is a unique collection of English love songs by some of the great English composers of the 20th century including Vaughan-Williams, Purcell, Britten, Dowland, Finzi and Warlock. All of the songs are firm favourites; amongst the most well known are Silent worship, Where’er you walk, If music be the food of love and The salley gardens. Mark Stone has sung at Covent Garden most recently in “Don Giovanni” and is a regular guest at ENO, WNO, Glyndebourne and Opera North. He and Stephen Barlow regularly perform together as a recital duo and often appear on Radio 3 and in concert in the UK and abroad. “Stone has made an estimable career as a lyric baritone at Opera North and English National Opera, but he is less familiar as a recitalist. His light, airy baritone is well suited to the more easy-going English love songs, but takes on a nasal, pinched quality when a sense of drama is required, as in Frank Bridge’s galloping Love went a-riding. This attractive miscellaneous programme might have made a stronger impression if the order of songs were not so haphazard: Vaughan Williams (Silent Noon and Love bade me welcome) segues uncomfortably into Dowland’s Awake, sweet love, and Purcell, Handel and Haydn are interspersed pell-mell between Quilter and Ireland, Butterworth and Warlock, Finzu and Britten. Stone’s theme and sequence are too loose to be compelling and his diction, mostly clear, rarely achieves the eloquence of a born song interpreter.” Sunday Times, 15th February 2009 *** “..this is not a recital restricted to one vocal hue. Each song is looked at and receives relevant response from both singer and pianist. ….he (Mark Stone) introduces so much by way of nuance and colour to make this a very interesting and fulfilling programme, one which is well recorded.” International Record Review, March 2009 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Purcell - Songs and Airs
Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley, Christopher Hogwood, Richard Campbell & Catherine Mackintosh Christopher Hogwood “The Evening Hymn is radiantly done, and so are many of the less well-known airs which regularly bring new revelation. Excellent recording, if with the voice forward, given striking extra presence on CD” Penguin Guide *** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Baroque Voices 12 - Purcell: O solitude
Purcell: | O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406 If music be the food of love The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 What a sad fate is mine While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downly sleep Z437 The Indian Queen: instrumental air Distressed Innocence: Air lent I attempt from Love's sickness fly Ask me to love no more, Z358 Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z461 If pray'rs and tears, Z380 Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383 In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384 A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, Z359 Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360 Young Thirsis' fate, Z473 An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193 |
Gérard Lesne (alto) Il Seminario musicale O Solitude: This exquisite and profound piece by Henry Purcell opens a selection of songs by the great English Baroque composer, recorded here by the alto Gérard Lesne whose voice proves to be in its element expressing the subtlety of these pieces. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Emma Kirkby - A Purcell Songbook
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Richard Campbell (viola da gamba), Catherine Mackintosh (violin) & Anthony Rooley (lute) “The 16 Purcell songs and airs in this recital, some familiar, some rarely heard, are arranged in a pleasing order for continuous listening but, of course, can be selected or re-arranged at the touch of a CD button. Emma Kirkby's pure white tone is a joy throughout, her diction immaculate and her technique equal to all the demands of Purcell's many notes to a word... with nice decorations in repeated passages.” Gramophone Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 weeks. |
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| |  | Angels hide their faces
Dawn Upshaw. Myron Lutzke (cello), Arthur Haas, (harpsichord, organ) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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