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ID: DCD34039
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Podkolekce: Klavír
Edinburgh University’s Russell Collection is one of the world’s finest collections of early keyboard instruments. The second volume in John Kitchen’s ongoing project to bring its musical exhibits to life matches music by Handel, Purcell, the Scottish composer Robert Bremner and others including Mozart’s son Franz Xaver with a gloriously vigorous menagerie of spinets, virginals, chamber organs, clavichord and harpsichords.
Track listing
Three pieces from Robert Bremner’s The Harpsichord or Spinnet Miscellany
Bach, J C F:
Five pieces from Musikalische Nebenstunden
Blow:
Voluntary in C
Couperin, A-L:
Les Tendres Sentimens
L'Affligée
L'Enjouée
Graupner:
Four movements from Partita in E major 'November'
Handel:
Keyboard Suite, HWV 437 in D minor
Mozart, F X:
Deux Polonaises mélancoliques
Purcell:
Five pieces from Musick’s Handmaid
Rossi, M:
Toccata settima from 'Toccate e correnti d'intavolatura d'organo e cimbalo'
Tomkins:
A sad Pavan for these distracted times
John Kitchen, harpsichord, piano, organ |
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ID: DCD34053
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Kolekce: BaroquePodkolekce: Harpsichord
John Kitchen (1755 Kirkman Harpsichord from the Raymond Russell Collection)
Handel’s overtures had an independent life almost from their inception, and the practice of performing them on keyboard instruments has a similarly long pedigree, beginning with a number of transcriptions made by the composer himself. Keyboard specialist John Kitchen virtuosically evokes Handel’s orchestral palette in the welter of timbres and colours which he summons forth from Jacob Kirckman’s 1755 harpsichord, a classic instrument from the very apex of the English harpsichord-building tradition.
Track listing
1-4 Overture to the Occasional Oratorio
5-7 Overture to Athalia
8-9 Overture to Radamisto
10-13 Suite in A (HWV 454)
14-17 Overture to Samson
18-21 Overture to Saul
22-27 Suite in G (HWV 450)
28-30 Overture to Il Pastor Fido
31-34 Overture to Teseo
35-38 Overture to Rinaldo
Total playing time [79:50] |
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ID: DCD34094
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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Kolekce: BaroqueHandel's musical illustration of Dryden's Alexander's Feast, first performed in 1736, was a critical and popular success. A day after the première, the London Daily Post reported 'Never was upon the like Occasion so numerous and splendid an Audience at any Theatre in London, there being at least 1300 Persons present'.
Twice a year some of the UK's finest baroque players and young vocal soloists come together in Edinburgh's Canongate Kirk to give sell-out concerts of the great works of Bach and Handel. The chorus, handpicked by Will Dawes, comprises a sensational selection of singers from Britain’s finest early music consorts, including the Monteverdi Choir, the Sixteen, Polyphony and the Gabrieli and King’s Consorts.
Ludus Baroque's appearances are unmissable events in Edinburgh's calendar. Now for the first time listeners from further afield can experience the vibrancy of their Festival-fuelled performances in this their debut recording. Alexander's Feast is the perfect showpiece for the vitality and abandon of Ludus Baroque and their rising-star soloists.
Ludus Baroque - baroque chamber orchestra
Sophie Bevan soprano
Ed Lyon tenor
William Berger bass
Richard Neville-Towle conductor
Track listing
Part One (disc 1)
1 Ouverture
2 Recitative (tenor) ‘Twas at the royal feast
3 Air (soprano / tenor) and Chorus Happy, happy, happy pair!
4 Recitative (tenor) Timotheus, plac’d on high
5 Recitative (soprano) The song began from Jove
6 Chorus The list’ning crowd admire the lofty sound
7 Air (soprano) With ravish’d ears the monarch hears
8 Recitative (tenor) The praise of Bacchus
9 Air (bass) and Chorus Bacchus, ever fair and young
10 Recitative (tenor) Sooth’d with the sound, the king grew vain
11 Recitative (soprano) He chose a mournful Muse
12 Air (soprano) He sung Darius, great and good
13 Recitative (soprano) With downcast looks the joyless victor sate
14 Chorus Behold Darius great and good
15 Recitative (tenor) The mighty master smil’d to see
16 Arioso (soprano) Softly sweet in Lydian measures
17 Air (tenor) War, he sung, is toil and trouble
18 Chorus The many rend the skies with loud applause
19 Air (soprano) The prince, unable to conceal his pain
Part Two (disc 2)
1 Recitative (tenor) and Chorus Now strike the golden Lyre again
2 Air (bass) Revenge, Timotheus cries
3 Recitative (tenor) Give the vengeance due
4 Air (tenor) The princes applaud with a furious joy
5 Air (soprano) and Chorus Thais led the way
6 Recitative (tenor) Thus, long ago
7 Grand Chorus At last divine Cecilia came
8 Recitative (tenor / bass) Let old Timotheus yield the prize
9 Chorus Let old Timotheus yield the prize
10 Chorus Your voices tune, and raise them high |
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ID: DCD34110
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Kolekce: BaroquePodkolekce: Voices and Orchestra
Mary Bevan soprano
Ed Lyon tenor
Ludus Baroque
Richard Neville-Towle director
Following the widespread critical acclaim of their debut recording, Alexander's Feast, Ludus Baroque brings their celebrated verve to Handel's Song for St Cecilia's Day. Coupled with his miniature cantata for tenor, Look Down, Harmonious Saint, which Handel wrote to supplement performances of Alexander's Feast, and with the Concerto Grosso in B flat, written in his fruitful autumn of 1739, Handel approaches the setting of this second text by John Dryden with the same extraordinary vividness of detail and metrical virtuosity as Alexander's Feast. 'What passion cannot music raise and quell?' the answer is that it can raise and quell them all: martial, erotic, sacred ... but as music had, in the beginning, been the divine principle of cosmic order, so, on the Final Day, it will be the force that dissolves the universe.
Track listing
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day
1 Ouverture
2 From harmony, from heav’nly harmony
3 From harmony, from heav’nly harmony
4 What passion cannot music raise and quell?
5 The trumpet’s loud clangour
6 La Marche
7 The soft complaining flute
8 Sharp violins proclaim
9 But oh! what art can teach?
10 Orpheus could lead the savage race
11 But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder high’r
12 As from the pow’r of sacred lays
Concerto Grosso in B flat Op. 6 No. 7
13 Largo - Allegro
14 Largo e Piano
15 Andante
16 Hornpipe
Look Down, Harmonious Saint
17 Look down, harmonious saint Musick! That all-persuading art Sweet accents all your numbers grace
Total playing time [79:55] |
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ID: DSPRCD014
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Kolekce: Masters of the Piano RollPodkolekce: The Great Female Pianists
This indicates the date the piano roll was made, not the date of the recording. Recording: 1992
1, Roll date 1926 / 2, 9, 14, 16, 17, 19 Roll date 1921/ 3, Roll date 1919 / 4, 6, 15, Roll date 1920 / 5, Roll date 1923 / 7, Roll date 1926 / 8, 12, Roll date 1927 / 10, Roll date 1918 / 11, Roll date 1916 / 12, Roll date 1927 / 13, Roll date 1922 / 18, Roll date 1924 |
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ID: DSPRCD027
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Kolekce: Music for ChildrenPodkolekce: Klavír
Booklet languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish |
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ID: DSPRCD040
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Kolekce: Romantická hudbaPodkolekce: Klavír
A fine collection of some of the most wonderful short romantic pieces composed for piano performed by well known pianists, including Paderewski, Faure and Grainger among others.. This CD is a feel good album that is perfectly suited for dinner parties! |
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