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Hush a Bye: Music for Children - gentle lullabies and quiet music

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2012-10-30

Works: English Traditional: Hush a Bye Baby; Traditional: Sleep My Baby; Mervyn Burtch: Sleep, my gentle child; Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne for piano no 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109; Anonymou...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Giles, Ian; Souter, Martin; Spring, Matthew; Stowe, Sara

Gentle lullabies and quiet music combine to form this special program of music to invite sleep. Unlike most calming programs, this release relies on real...continue...
Includes work(s) by Anonymous....continue...

Minstrel's Musicke: Medieval Songs & Dances / Banks, Spring, Lindo, Wesseling

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2011-10-25

Works: Anonymous, Italian: Saltarello no 1 (GB-LBl Add.29987); La Manfredina; Saltarello no 2 (GB-LBl Add.29987); Christmas Traditional: Angelus ad virginem (English); Hyer matin; Anonymous: Amoroso for flu...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Lindo, Sharon; Spring, Matthew; Wandor, Michelene; Wesseling, Lisette

The music of medieval minstrel for voice, harp, pipe, tabor & drum. Lively & cheerful dances, songs, reflective ballads played on authentic instruments from the...continue...

Music For Bedtime

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2011-01-25

Works: Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50; Dolly, Op. 56; Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne for piano in E minor, KK IV/b; Anonymous: Quiet harp song; The gentle lute; Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet fo...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Gregory, James; Piha, Sam; Souter, Martin; Spring, Matthew; Vishnik, Martin
Conductors: Jackson, Don;
Ensemble: ; The Amber Quartet

A Pageant Of Medieval Music

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2011-01-25

Works: Anonymous: Arrival of the Lord and Lady, ductia for ensemble; Jester's Dance, estampie for ensemble; Entry of the Spanish Musicians, ductia for ensemble; The Spanish Lady Sings, for voice & ensemble;...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Rowlands-Pritchard, John

Night Owl

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2006-08-01

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27/2 "Moonlight"; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Carnival of the animals...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Bennett, Elinor; Bohle, Walter; Flachot, Reine; Gregory, James; Hill, Sarah; Ricci, Ruggiero; Souter, Martin
Conductors: Rezucha, Bystrik; Tenant-Flowers, Sarah; Kuntsch, Matthias; Chang, Yun-Sung

Late night classics. At the end of a long day, and on into the night, this lovely album of relaxing music will help banish those...continue...

Howard Goodall - Winter Lullabies / Stephen Darlington

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2006-08-01

Works: César Franck: Panis angelicus; Charles Gounod: La salutation angélique (Angelic Greeting), song for voice, piano, violin or cello & organ ad lib.; Franz Schubert: Psalm 23, D 706/Op. 132; A...
Performers: Finch, Catrin

The Boys of Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford. An exciting major commission from Howard Goodall, the TV star and composer of 'The Vicar of Dibley'...continue...

Pax Romana - Peaceful Music from the Age of Rome / Jon Banks

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2006-01-01

Works: Jon Banks: Lugete, o cupidines, for dulcimer; Insomnia curus, for lyre; Ecce ascendimus, for harp; Otium tibi molestum est, for gittern; Spring Song, for psalterium; Alma Venus, for dulcimer; Somnus ...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]

Peaceful music from the age of Rome .The Romans loved music and used it both in peace and at war. This unique programme recreates the...continue...

Flower of Chivalry - Tranquill Medieval Music

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2005-02-01

Works: Anonymous: Unicorns in the Mist; Henry VIII, King of England: Consort no 16; Consort no 8 for instrumental ensemble; Consort no 4; Consort no 3 for instrumental ensemble; Consort no 22; Consort no 2 ...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Davies, Victoria; Hilliard Ensemble; Souter, Martin
Conductors:
Ensemble: Sirinu; The Hilliard Ensemble

Tranquil medieval music featuring The Hilliard Ensemble An emphasis on peace and calm in this selection of medieval music, including gentle songs by one of...continue...

Sanctus - Music for Quiet Contemplation

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2004-09-01

Works: Gregorian Chant: Facta est cum angelo; Puer natus est nobis, introit; Angelus ad pastores, antiphon (Mode 7); Alleluia. Dies sanctificatus; Sanctus; Agnus Dei; Quem vidistis pastores, responsory in m...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]

Music for quiet contemplation Haunting and evocative words and music that bring us echoes from the world of the monks of Lindisfarne, the Saxon monastery...continue...

Music for a Great Garden - Byrd, Mozart, et al / Stowe, Souter, et al

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2004-01-01

Works: William Byrd: All in a garden green, MB 56; Will you walk the woods so wylde; Robert Johnson: Where the bee sucks; English Traditional: The Rowan Tree; Greensleeves, folk song; Hildegard von Bingen: ...
Performers: Bennett, Elinor; Hill, Sarah; Stowe, Sara

Garden themes from our musical heritage. An album of fragrant songs and instrumental pieces from centuries of musical tradition. Titles include 'Greensleeves', 'Where the Bee...continue...

Music for Mothers

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-02-01

Works: Claude Debussy: Arabesques (2) for Piano; Clair de lune; Serenade for the doll, for piano (Children's Corner no 3), L. 113/3; Luigi Boccherini: Menuett; Anton Rubinstein: Melodies (2) for Piano, Op 3...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Hill, Sarah; Souter, Martin

A charming album which combines music evoking children and childish things with music for moments of repose for a tired mum! A perfect gift for...continue...

Music For My Lady

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-02-01

Works: Scottish Traditional: O Lustie May; My lady binnis lilt (The Wemyss Lute Book); The Laydie Louthian's Lilte (Robert Edward's Book); The Last Time I Came O'er the Moor; Canaries; François Campion...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Birt, Heather; McCoy, Stewart; Souter, Martin; Spring, Matthew; Stowe, Sara

Songs of love from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, performed with the gentle accompaniment of the lute. Violin solos and harpsichord and viol consort music...continue...

Songs from the Taverne

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-01-01

Works: Anonymous, Italian: Saltarello no 1 (GB-LBl Add.29987); La Manfredina; Saltarello no 2 (GB-LBl Add.29987); Anonymous, English: Angelus ad Virginem; Sumer is icumen in; Brawle, for ensemble; Anonymous...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Lindo, Sharon; Spring, Matthew; Wandor, Michelene; Wesseling, Lisette

Ballads and songs from the time of Chaucer. Lively and cosmopolitan, these songs and ballads are performed in an authentic style using period instruments. The...continue...
Includes estampie(s) real by Anonymous, Manuscrit du Roi....continue...

Christmas Vespers - Monks & Novices of Saint Frideswide

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2002-09-01

Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]

An album for an evening of calm before the storm! Ages old sounds ring around the cloister, of plainchant sung by the choir, of quiet...continue...

Classical Harp / Sarah Hill

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2002-09-01

Works: Jules Massenet: Thaïs; Jacques Offenbach: Venise, barcarolle for chorus; Félix Godefroid: Bois solitaire, romance without words for harp (Pensées musicales, Book 4, no 4); Jeremiah Cla...
Performers: Hill, Sarah

Gentle, classical tunes played by that most seductive of instruments, the concert harp. Superb new arrangements of masterworks of the past include Pachelbel's 'Canon', Massenet's...continue...

Victorian Vision

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2001-06-01

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Song Without Words for piano no 30 in A major ("Frühlingslied"), Op. 62/6; Songs (6), Op. 57; Elias Parish Alvars: Serena...
Performers: Bennett, Elinor; Bottone, Bonaventura; Butteriss, Simon; Giles, Ian; Gregory, James; Souter, Martin; Spiers, John; Wickham, Henry
Conductors: Rainer, Christian; Jones, John Price; Edwards, John O.

Music for home and garden; Includes Mendelssohn and Gilbert and Sullivan...continue...

The Romance of the Harp / Elinor Bennett

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2000-06-01

Works: Albert Heinrich Zabel: Marguerite Douloureuse au Rouet for harp, Op.26; La Source, for harp, Op. 23 ("The Spring"); Alphonse Hasselmans: La Source, Op. 44; Mikhail Glinka: Nocturne, for harp (or pian...
Performers: Bennett, Elinor

The harp is one of the most romantic of instruments. Its sounds can instantly evoke an atmosphere of peace and calm. This collection of Romantic...continue...