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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: KUK95
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Renaissance
Subcollection: Choir
New release January 2006
Texts and music from the spiritual world of the Middle Ages
A concert recording from the minster at abbey Maulbronn
The completes librettos and lyrics ˜ The picture-gallery to the concert |
| 9.00 eur Buy |
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ID: RRC1025
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Renaissance
Subcollection: Choir
Pro Cantione Antiqua /(inc T.Penrose, J.Griffett, N.Jenkins, I.Partridge,
M.George, C.Keyte) / dir: Mark Brown.
Charles Brett, Timothy Penrose, Ashley Stafford (countertenors) Wynford Evans, James Griffett, Neil Jenkins, Ian Partridge (tenors) David Beavan, Michael George, Gordon Jones, Christopher Keyte (basses) |
| 10.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD071
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Collection: Renaissance
Subcollection: Choir
'The King's Singers, the superlative vocal sextet that has retained immaculate blend, perfect tuning and crystal diction...' (The London Times, October 05) have combined one of the greatest vocal compositions of all time with modern recording technology and customary style to produce a truly stunning recording of Thomas Tallis' Spem in alium. This is a unique opportunity to hear every part in Spem sung and recorded to perfection, with the six King's Singers dividing the forty parts of Spem in alium between them, in this multi-track recording the disc is in full surround sound, and is a CD/SACD hybrid.
This disc can be played on any standard CD or SACD player. In addition, there is a 4.0 surround-sound mix on the SACD layer. |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: BG0307
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Renaissance
Subcollection: Ensemble
Ensemble BELLA GERIT
SIMONE SORINI Superius
ENEA SORINI. Tenor / Contratenor
MAURO BORGIONI. Tenor / Contratenor
ANGELIKA MOTHS. Organo e Organo Portativo |
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ID: LIR007
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Nancy Long with Tragicomedia |
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ID: LIR005
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
150 years of English virginals music
Classical Periods: Baroque, Medieval, Renaissance
For this CD David has chosen a programme which reflects the social and political changes taking place in Britain through the 16th and 17th centuries, and which explores the different influences on the repertoire of the virginal, an instrument which was a major part of musical life at that time. Through a chronological survey, he also focuses our attention on the development of the instrument itself and how it adapted to the demands of the changing repertoire.
David makes particular use of the Arpichordium, or ‘bray’ stop: a batten parallel with the bridge, in which are fixed a set of metal hooks that touch the strings when the stop is engaged, resulting in a colourful ‘buzzing’ sound.
The instrument used in this recording was made by Ian Tucker, and is a Muselar virginal, an exact replica of one made in Antwerp in 1620, by Andreas Ruckers.
(English repertoire played on a Ruckers reproduction). |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: COR16052
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Renaissance
The Hilliard Ensemble's Hilliard Live series, now three discs strong with a fourth on the way, has offered superior live performances of Renaissance and Medieval sacred pieces. These male singers mix clarity and a kind of gutsy lyricism that are rare in performances of this music but in their hands seems totally appropriate. The programs are based on a good deal of scholarly investigation and aim to communicate something of the contexts in which it would originally have been used -- the Antoine Brumel Missa Victimae paschali laudes heard here is interspersed with motets and Italian-language laude -- monophonic devotional pieces. (It may seem odd to hear Italian [actually Old Tuscan] in the middle of a mass, but these pieces apparently took on liturgical use.) There is nothing "scholarly" about the performances, however.
The Hilliard Ensemble is one of the world's finest vocal chamber groups, and is probably unrivalled for its formidable reputation in the fields of both early and new music. This series was only previously available direct from the group but has never before been fully available at international retail. |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: CC2009
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Oboe
George Caird (oboe) with
Simon Blendis (violin), Louise Williams (viola), Jane Salmon (cello), Alison Dods (violin 2 in Maconchy, Gow), David Adams (violin 2 in Bliss)
The CD booklet contains a 2,500-word article by George Caird on the music in English, French and German.
There are more photos of the performers and the recording session.
This recording brings together five remarkable works for oboe and strings written between 1926 and 1946 and representing an English renaissance for the oboe as a chamber music instrument. It is a period which is musically very rich and diverse, with English composers showing new influences from Europe and America. The range and expression across these works is striking and is a tribute to the artistry of the oboist Léon Goossens, who is the dedicatee of three of the works and who taught the dedicatees of certainly one and possibly both of the other two. He was also the player behind two other important works by Bax and Finzi. These magnificent seven works, it can be argued, established a repertoire for oboe quartets and quintets and did much to promote the oboe as a chamber music instrument.
Goossens’ exquisite playing was characterised by a distinctive and sensitive sound, beautiful phrasing, a wide dynamic and tonal range and great rhythmic vitality. His collaboration with Sir Arnold Bax produced the first significant work for oboe and strings, the Quintet written in 1922 and recorded by Goossens with the International Quartet in 1924 (featured on Oboe Classics CC2005). Bax’s music, with its pastoral and elegiac qualities together with a strong Irish influence leant itself superbly to Goossens’ playing and this work must surely be partly responsible for the works on this recording. copyright George Caird 2004 |
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