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The Spirits of England and France, Vol. 4: Missa Caput and the story of the Salve Regina

1 CD / Hyperion / 2010-08-10

Works: Anonymous, English: The story of the Salve Regina; Missa Caput, for 4 voices; Salve Regina; Jesu for thy mercy; Make us merry; Alma redemptoris mater; Agnus Dei, for 4 voices (Old Hall Manuscript); R...
Performers: Charlesworth, Stephen; Greig, Donald; Harrold, Steven; Nixon, Leigh; Page, Christopher [Gothic Voices]; Podger, Julian; Rumsey, Shirley; Wilson, Christopher [Lute]

'A fascinating disc with superbly informative and enticing notes by Christopher Page' (BBC Music Magazine)

'At last, for the first time in over thirty years, we...continue...
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Lachrimae

1 CD / Hyperion / 2010-06-08

Works: John Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, for 5 viols/violins & lute; Captain Piper his Galiard, for 5 viols/violins & lute (from "Lachrimae"); The King of Denmarks Galliard, for 5 viols/violins & l...
Performers: O'Dette, Paul
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Ensemble: Parley of Instruments

'Outstanding' (Early Music)

'The unique features, superb playing, recording and annotation make this an issue of unusual interest and irresistible attraction' (Gramophone)

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Flying Horse - Music from the ML Lutebook / Elizabeth Kenny

1 CD / Hyperion / 2009-09-08

Works: John Dowland: Doulands Rounde Battele Galyard, P 39; Work(s); Antony Holborne: Last Will and Testament for viol consort; English Traditional: Tom of Bedlam, folk song; Anonymous, English: John Come K...
Performers: Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]

Ownership of the ML Lutebook has been attributed to a number of court musicians since its discovery in 1912, but it was the name 'Margaret'...continue...

English Lute Songs / Robin Blaze, Elizabeth Kenny

1 CD / Hyperion / 2009-03-10

Works: Robert Johnson: Full fathom five; Where the bee sucks; Fantasie for lute; Anonymous, English: Last of the Queenes Maskes for voice & lute; Thomas Campion: Faire, if you expect admiring; John Dowland:...
Performers: Blaze, Robin; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]

'English Lute Songs' covers a variety of styles by composers such as Blow, Dowland, Campion, Lawes and Purcell, with works for voice and lute and...continue...

The Study of Love - French Songs & Motets of the 14th Century

1 CD / Hyperion / 2008-09-09

Works: Anonymous, French: Pour vous servir; Puis que l'aloe ne fine; Jour a jour la vie; Combien que j'aye; Marticius qui fu; Renouveler me feïst; Fist on, dame; Il me convient guerpir; En la maison De...
Performers: Page, Christopher [Gothic Voices]
Conductors: Page, Christopher
Ensemble: Gothic Voices

'A wonderful addition to the catalogue, and the recorded sound... is superlative' (Gramophone)

'A simply superb CD... A recording which you might use to snare those...continue...

Dowland: Lute Songs; Britten / Padmore, Kenny, Ogden

1 CD / Hyperion / 2008-01-08

Works: John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; Say love if ever thou ditst find, D 58; Second Booke of Songes; Fantasia, for lute (from "A Varietie of Lute-lessons"); Come Again; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; I...
Performers: Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Ogden, Craig [Guitar]; Padmore, Mark [Tenor Vocals]

Mark Padmore is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest tenors performing today, celebrated for his work on the operatic stage, in recital, and in...continue...

Awake, Sweet Love... / James Bowman, Miller, King's Consort

1 CD / Hyperion / 2007-08-14

Works: John Dowland: Can she excuse, P 42; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Farewell; Second Booke of Songes; Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard, P 41; A Pilgrimes Solace; Firste Booke of Songes; Preludium, P 98; Fa...
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; David Miller [Lute/Baroque Guitar]
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Ensemble: King's Consort

'Restores a dimension of beauty that is often sacrificed in present day performances ... Happy the family that spent its leisure hours with this music,...continue...

The Castle of Fair Welcome - Late 15th Century Courtly Songs

1 CD / Hyperion / 2007-03-20

Works: Robert Morton: Le Souvenir de vous me tue, for 3 voices; Que pourroit plus faire une dame, for 3 voices; Plus j'ay le monde, for 3 voices; Johannes Regis: Puisque ma damme / Je m'en voy, for vocal co...
Performers: Ainsley, John Mark; Ardagh-Walter, Patrick; Covey-Crump, Rogers; Harvey, Peter Harvey; Ross, Gill; Wilson, Christopher [Lute]
Conductors: Page, Christopher
Ensemble: Gothic Voices

'The sound is beautifully carved out, and the ensemble includes some of Britain's finest singers' (Gramophone)...continue...

Lawes / Blaze, Kenny, Outram, MacDonald, Carter, Kelly

1 CD / Hyperion / 2007-02-13

Works: William Lawes: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may; Oh, let me still and silent lie, for voice & theorbo; Oh, my Clarissa, thou cruel faire, song for voice & continuo; Royall Consort Suite No 6 in D majo...
Performers: Blaze, Robin; Carter, William; Kelly, Frances [Harp]; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; MacDonald, Robert [Bass Voice]; Outram, Rebecca

"Ultimately this is a disc for conoisseurs--of countertenor singing and of the particular style of 17th-century English song--but anyone who enjoys good singing and congenial...continue...

Handel: An Ode to St. Cecilia's Day / King, Sampson, et al

1 CD / Hyperion / 2004-10-12

Works: George Frederick Handel: A Song for St Cecilia's Day, HWV 76; Cecilia, Volgi un Sguardo, cantata for soprano, tenor, strings & continuo, HWV 89
Performers: Brown, Rachel; Gilchrist, James [Tenor Vocal]; Halls, Matthew; Jonathan Cohen [Cello/Conductor]; Sampson, Carolyn; Sayce, Lynda; Steele-Perkins, Crispian [Trumpet]
Conductors: King, Robert
Ensemble: King's Consort

"...King works generally in terms of gentleness and understatement. He has the benefit of soloists with lovely but tightly disciplined voices, less disposed to ostentatious...continue...

Ancient Airs & Dances / Paul O'Dette, Rogers Covey-Crump

1 CD / Hyperion / 2004-05-01

Works: Simone Molinaro: Ballo detto il Conte Orlando, for lute; Saltarello del predetto ballo; Vincenzo Galilei: Polymnia; Anonymous: Italiana (La Volta), for lute; Chilesotti Lutebook; Mascherada; Campanae...
Performers: Covey-Crump, Rogers; Holloway, John; North, Nigel [Lute]; O'Dette, Paul

'A delightful record' (Gramophone)...continue...

Move Now with Measured Sound

1 CD / Hyperion / 2001-12-01

Works: Thomas Campion: It fell on a sommers daie; I care not for these ladies; My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love; Leave prolonging thy distress, for voice & bass viol; Fire, fire, fire, fire loe here...
Performers: Blaze, Robin; David Miller [Lute/Baroque Guitar]; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Levy, Mark [Viol]

"Thomas Campion was a Renaissance man, trained in law and medicine, and highly skilled as a poet and musician. Robin Blaze and his team arein...continue...

Purcell: Songs & Dialogues / Kirkby, Thomas, Rooley

1 CD / Hyperion / 2001-03-01

Works: Henry Purcell: In all our Cynthia's shining sphere, song, Z. 496; Tell me why my charming fair (from "Prophetess"), duet for soprano & bass, Z. 627/35; As Amoret and Thirsis lay, song (from "The Old ...
Performers: Kirkby, Emma; Rooley, Anthony [Lute]; Thomas, David [Bass Vocal]

"...In this reissue...Emma Kirkby is at her most unaffected, coy and teasing, naive and knowing by turn. David Thomas...is more vocally manipulative, his passion reaching...continue...

Favourite Baroque Classics / Goodman, Brandenburg Consort

1 CD / Hyperion / 1999-08-01

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Prelude to the Te Deum; Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Cantata no 21, "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis BWV 21; Easter Oratorio, BWV 249; ...
Performers: Arfken, Katharina; Beznosiuk, Lisa; Goodman, Roy; Jackson, Sally [winds]; Keavy, Stephen; Miles, Rebecca; North, Nigel [Lute]
Conductors: Goodman, Roy
Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort

'This disc can be highly recommended as one of the best in the field' (Fanfare, USA)

'This disc deserves to go to the top of the...continue...

How the World Wags - Social Music for a 17th C. Englishman

1 CD / Hyperion / 1999-07-01

Works: Anonymous: Jamaica, or the Jovial Broom Man; Saint Turned Sinner; Jolly Barber; Maurice Webster: Galliard; Thomas Ravenscroft: Who Liveth So Merry; Martin Said to His Man, for voice(s) & ensemble; To...
Performers: Thompson, Keith [Flute/Recorder]; Wootton, Douglas
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Ensemble: City Waites

"What a delightfully entertaining recordings! 'Wags' is the operative word here. The texts are fun. The music is fun. And the sheer joy ofperforming this...continue...

Danyel: Complete Songs & Lute Music / Short, Miller, et al

1 CD / Hyperion / 1995-04-01

Works: John Danyel: Like As the Lute Delights; Time, Cruel Time; Pavan for lute in C major; What Delight Can They Enjoy; Mrs M E her funeral tears for the death of her husband; Why Canst Thou Not?; Stay, Cr...
Performers: Crabtree, Libby; Daniels, Charles; David Miller [Lute/Baroque Guitar]; Heringman, Jacob [Lute]; Peacock, Adrian; Short, Nigel; Vine, Matthew

"...This recording will transport you back to rural England at the turn of the seventeenth century and the intimate, introspective environment of domestic music-making...Nigel Short...continue...

Emma Kirkby Collection / Darlow, Goodman, Page, Rooley

1 CD / Hyperion / 1987-07-01

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale; Voglio di vita uscir, madrigal for soprano; Madrigals, Book 10; Scherzi musicali, volume 2; Thomas Campion: Now hath Flora rob'd her bowers; Move now wi...
Performers: Kirkby, Emma; Reichenberg, David; Rooley, Anthony [Lute]
Conductors: Goodman, Roy; Rooley, Anthony; Darlow, Denys
Ensemble: Consort of Musicke; London Handel Orchestra; Parley of Instruments; Taverner Choir, Consort & Players

'Recommended with enthusiasm' (Fanfare, USA)

'An attractive release, not only for the almost unfailing charm with which Kirkby imbues the music but also as a record

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A Feather on the Breath of God / Kirkby, Page, Gothic Voices

1 CD / Hyperion / 1983-01-01

Works: Hildegard von Bingen: Columba aspexit; Ave generosa; O ignee Spiritus; O Jerusalem aure civitas; O Euchari, in leta via; O viridissima virga; O presul vere civitatis; O ecclesia oculi tui
Performers: Breen, Kevin; Holden, Poppy; Kirkby, Emma; Milner, Howard; Muskett, Doreen; Page, Christopher [Gothic Voices]; Parrott, Andrew; Philpot, Margaret; Stell, Judith; van Evera, Emily; Voices, Gothic; Whi...
Conductors: Page, Christopher
Ensemble: Gothic Voices

"This beautiful chant-like music has a haunting tranquility, superbly caught by one of the most intelligent and homogenous vocal groups performing today." -Classic CD...continue...
Personnel: Poppy Holden, Emma Kirkby, Judith Stell, Emily van Evera (soprano); Kevin Breen, Andrew Parrott (tenor).

Recording information: Church Of St. Jude, Hampstead, London, England (09/14/...continue...

Vivaldi: Music for Lute and Mandolin / Paul O'Dette

1 CD / Hyperion / 1983-01-01

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Chamber Concerto for Lute and 2 Violins in D major, RV 93; Concerto for 2 Mandolins in G major, RV 532; Concerto for Mandolin in C major, RV 425; Trio Sonata for Violin, Lute and Bas...
Performers: Jeffrey, Robin; O'Dette, Paul
Conductors: Holman, Peter
Ensemble: Parley of Instruments