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The Artistry of Emma Kirkby

4 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2009-02-09

Works: George Frederick Handel: Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001); Salve Regina, antiphon for soprano, strings, organ & continuo in G minor, HWV 241; O qualis de coelo sonus, motet for so...
Performers: Abberger, John; Carter, William; Charlston, Terence; Georgi, Thomas; Gwilt, Richard; Harris, Lucas [Lute]; Kirkby, Emma; Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Lindberg, Jakob; Mellon, Agnes [Sop...
Conductors: Cummings, Laurence; Medlam, Charles;
Ensemble: ; Theatre of Early Music

With her almost supernaturally clear and agile soprano, Emma Kirkby has enchanted audiences ever since she first appeared on the Early Music scene in the...continue...

Love bade me welcome - Dowland, etc / Taylor, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2005-11-07

Works: Robert Jones: Though your strangeness frets my heart; My complaining is but feigning; Once did I serve a cruel heart; Sweet Kate; What if I seek for love of thee; Lie down poor heart; And is it night...
Performers: Bowman, James; Kelly, Frances; Kenny, Elizabeth; Levy, Mark; Taylor, Daniel [Countertenor]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Theatre of Early Music

On this disc, counter-tenor Daniel Taylor and the Theatre of Early Music (also on the much praised BIS-CD-1346: Leons de Tnbres) have devised a program,...continue...

Three, Four & Twenty Lutes / Lindberg, Meunier, North, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1994-09-23

Works: Giovanni Antonio Terzi: Canzone a 8 for 4 lutes & voice; Giovanni Pacolini: Passemezo di Zorzi, for 3 lutes; Passemezo della Battaglia, dance for lute(s); Passamezzo milanese; Anonymous: Temprar pote...
Performers: Badley, Bill; Chateauneuf, Paula; Covey-Crump, Rogers; David Miller [Lute/Baroque Guitar]; Elliot, Paul [Tenor Vocal]; Fields, Michael; King, Andrew [Tenor]; Lindberg, Jakob; Long, Peter; Meunier, Ro...
Conductors: Goodman, Roy
Ensemble: Vocalsoloists