Musical Concepts > Cantata/Oratorio

The Very Best of Kathleen Ferrier: Centenary Collection - Lieder and Folksongs

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2012-06-05

Works: Spoken Word: Interview with Kathleen Ferrier; English Traditional: Blow the Wind Southerly (Northumbrian Folk Song); The Keel Row, Northumbrian folk song; Ca' the yowes; Benjamin Britten: Come you no...
Performers: Newmark, John; Spurr, Phyllis; Stone, Frederick
Conductors: Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Boult, Adrian; Neel, Boyd; Walter, Bruno

Arie Antiche - songs by Caccini, Strozzi, Blow, Purcell, Notari, Sacacini, Lawes, Carissimi et al. / Emma Kirkby, soprano

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2012-06-05

Works: Giulio Caccini: Amarilli mia bella, for voice & continuo (from Le nuove musiche); Johann Nauwach: Fantasy on Caccini's "Amarilli mia bella", for voice & lute; Tempesta di dolcezza; Angelo Notari: Fan...
Performers: Kirkby, Emma; Rooley, Anthony [Lute]

Recording information: Forde Abbey, Dorset (01/1992)....continue...

Art of the Prima Donna / Sutherland

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2011-01-25

Works: Thomas Arne: Artaxerxes; George Frederick Handel: Samson; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; I Puritani, opera; La sonnambula, opera; Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide; Charles Gounod: Faust; Wolfgang Amade...
Performers: Sutherland, Joan, Dame
Conductors: Molinari-Pradelli, France

In the wake of the passing of this most quintessential of prima donnas, here is a timely issue of a collection that summarizes the apotheosis...continue...
Recording information: 1960....continue...

Traditional Glees & Madrigals

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-10-05

Works: Thomas Weelkes: Harke all ye lovely saints above, madrigal for 5 voices; Thus sings my dearest jewell, madrigal for 3 voices; William Byrd: Psalmes, Sonets and Songs; Thomas Morley: Fyer, fyer, madri...

A fascinating look at the traditional Glee (from which Glee Clubs got their name) and its Antecedent the Madrigal....continue...

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Moscow Cantata / Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-09-14

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 in E minor, Op. 64; Cantata for the opening of the Polytechnic Exhibition in Moscow, for tenor, chorus & orchestra
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Cherkasov, Gennadi

This is the first issue outside Russia of this remarkable Russian performance of a perennial favorite Tchaikovsky symphony. The coupling is a fascinating and neglected...continue...

Handel, Bach, Vivaldi Purcell: Favourite

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-07-13

Works: George Frederick Handel: St. Cecilia; Serse; Semele; Acis & Galatea; Joshua; Jeptha; Alexander's Feast; Samson; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 208; John Weldon: Arise, Ye Subterranean winds; Henry Pu...
Performers: Ainsley, John Mark; Beznosiuk, Lisa; Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Fisher, Gillian; George, Michael; Goodman, Roy; Steele-Perkins, Crispian [Trumpet]
Conductors: King, Robert
Ensemble: King's Consort

A Strong line up of 13 of the greatest Baroque arias performed by the top artists! Its first released was greeted enthusiastically by Gramophone: "enjoyable...continue...
Recording information: St. Pauls', Southgate, London (1987)....continue...

Monteverdi Duets & Solos

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-02-09

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Chiome d'oro, Canzonetta (Livre 7) a 4 voci con violini; Madrigals, Book 7; Non è di gentil core chi non arde, madrigal for 2 sopranos (from Book 7), SV 118; Concerto. Settim...
Performers: Kirkby, Emma; Tubb, Evelyn [Soprano Vocals]
Conductors: Rooley, Anthony [Lute]
Ensemble: Consort of Musicke

This collection of chamber vocal music is a vivid picture of lavish private entertainment in Venice at the height of its splendor. In a review...continue...
Recording information: Forde Abbey, Somerset (1986)....continue...

Alfred Deller Vol 4 - Music of Handel & Bach - The English Renaissance

6 CD / Musical Concepts / 2009-03-10

Works: George Frederick Handel: Jephtha; MEDLEY; Orlando; L'Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato; Rinaldo; Theodora; Coronation Anthems (4); Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74; Alexander's Feast, HWV...
Performers: Bevan, Maurice; Brown, Wilfred; Deller, Alfred; Deller, Mark; Dupre, Desmond; English, Gerald; Frost, John; Leonhardt, Gustav; Lester, Harold; McLoughlin, Eileen; Poulter, Eileen; Rudolf, Richard; Sh...
Conductors: Lewis, Anthony; Deller, Alfred; Leonhardt, Gustav;
Ensemble: ; Deller Consort; Ensemble of Baroque Instruments; Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble; Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Wenzinger Consort of V

This is Volume 4 in a series of 6 special Multi-CD sets of the Complete Vanguard Recordings of Alfred Deller. The Deller Consort, Gustav Leonhardt...continue...

Handel: Theodora / Somary, Harper, Forrester, Young, et al

2 CD / Musical Concepts / 2008-10-14

Works: George Frederick Handel: Theodora, HWV 68
Performers: Fleet, Edgar; Forrester, Maureen; Harper, Heather; Lawrenson, John; Lehane, Maureen; Lester, Harold; Young, Alexander
Conductors: Somary, Johannes;
Ensemble: AmorArtis Chamber Choir; English Chamber Orchestra

Theodora was a favorite with Handel himself. This Classic Vanguard account is traditional in style and is directed by an understanding and intelligent Handelian, Johannes...continue...

Russian Choral Music - Sviridov: Puskin's Garland, etc / Elena Rastvorova, Moscow New Choir

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2008-10-14

Works: Georgy Vasilevich Sviridov: Choral Pieces (3) on Tolstoy's "Tsar Fyodor Ioanovich"; Concerto for chorus ("Pushkin's Garland"); Songs of Troubled Times, for chorus; Night Clouds, choral cantata

Sviridov balances simplicity and originality to perfection in the three choruses from Tolstoy's Tsar Feodor Iannovich. Sviridov's emotional range is wider, and it is incredible...continue...

George Frideric Handel: Semele

2 CD / Musical Concepts / 2007-10-09

Works: George Frederick Handel: Semele
Performers: Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Deller, Mark; Fleet, Edgar; Lester, Harold; Palmer, Felicity; Taylor, Neilson; Tear, Robert; Vocals], Justino Diaz [Bass Baritone
Conductors: Somary, Johannes

Handel: Judas Maccabeus / Somary, Harper, et al

2 CD / Musical Concepts / 2007-08-14

Works: George Frederick Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63
Performers: Clark, Patricia; Harper, Heather; Keyte, Christopher; Shirley-Quirk, John; Temperley, Jean; Young, Alexander [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Somary, Johannes
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

The only budget version of this complete oratorio currently available. A much loved performance that has stood the test of time with its golden cast...continue...

Festal Mass at the Imperial Court of Vienna 1648 / Seymour

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2007-07-17

Works: Girolamo Fantini: Sonata Imperiale No 1 "Del Colloreto"; Missa Veni sponsa Christi; Sonata Imperiale No 2; Andreas Rauch: Attolite Portas; Jubilate Deo; Benedicite; Pater Noster; Cantate Domino; Giov...
Performers: Cable, Margaret; Collins, David; Covey-Crump, Rogers; Daggett, Philip; Kampen, Anthony Van; Laird, Michael; Langford, Roger; North, Nigel [Lute]; Partridge, Ian [Tenor Vocals]; Seymour, Yvonne; Steel...
Conductors: Seymour, Peter
Ensemble: Baroque Brass of London; Yorkshire Baroque Soloists

The works on this record constitute a complete Mass likely heard shortly after the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, celebrating the end...continue...