Browse: Blow (composer), Masques
This page lists all recordings composed by John Blow (1649–1708).
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Purcell: Tyrannic Love Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Eugénie Lefebvre, Etienne Bazola
The theme is love, but there’s nothing coy or sugary about either music or performances that embrace extremes of emotion and expression...Much of this is theatre music, and in the absence of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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John Blow: Venus & Adonis; Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
Ida Ränzlöv, Bernt Ola Volungholen, Christina Larsson Malmberg, Rupert Enticknap, Lisa Carlioth, Mathilda Sidén Silfver, Mikael Stenbaek, Arash Azarbad, Confidencen Opera & Music Festival Orchestra, William Relton (director), Olof Boman
alluring performances, sumptuous costumes and clever set designs. All the principals are strong, but mezzo-soprano Ida Ränzlöv stands out. Technically flawless, texturally lush and dramatically... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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John Blow: Venus & Adonis; Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
Ida Ränzlöv, Bernt Ola Volungholen, Christina Larsson Malmberg, Rupert Enticknap, Lisa Carlioth, Mathilda Sidén Silfver, Mikael Stenbaek, Arash Azarbad, Confidencen Opera & Music Festival Orchestra, William Relton (director), Olof Boman
alluring performances, sumptuous costumes and clever set designs. All the principals are strong, but mezzo-soprano Ida Ränzlöv stands out. Technically flawless, texturally lush and dramatically... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Purcell, Locke, Blow & Gibbons
Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
The English Concert, Harry Bicket
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Mead’s theatrical experience comes through most clearly in his dramatic rendering of some of the songs from the odes…The stage songs are often presented with an affecting fluidity, as in William... — More…
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Their playing is clean, polished, razor sharp, yet there’s nothing sterile about these performances, which bristle with energy, dynamic contrasts and dramatic gestures… Above all, there’s a sense... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Découverte
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The pieces by Lully are performed very stylishly...Textures and tuning can be a little murky at times, but Lucile Tessier directs throughout with panache and insight. — More…
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Counter-tenor Duets and Song Purcell and his contemporaries
Ryland Angel (counter-tenor), Mark Chambers (counter-tenor), Laurence Cummings (h'chord, organ), Taro Takeuchi (lute, theorbo, baroque guitar), Reiko Ichise (bass viol), Becky Davies & Laura Hird (recorder), Rodolfo Richter and Claire Duff (violin) and Emma Alter (viola)
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Blow: Venus and Adonis
Amanda Forsythe (Venus), Tyler Duncan (Adonis), Mireille Lebel (Cupid), Amanda Forsythe (soprano), Jason McStoots, Zachary Wilder (tenors), Douglas Williams (bass-baritone)
Boston Early Music Festival, Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs
Mireille Lebel's Cupid shines in Boston's tryst with Blow's pastoral precursor to Purcell's Dido. Playing is stylish, though Tyler Duncan's Adonis sounds unfeasibly mature. — More…
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Blow: Venus and Adonis Catherine Bott, Libby Crabtree & Michael George
New London Consort & Choristers of Westminster Abbey School, Philip Pickett
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