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Striggio: 40 Part Mass

2 CD / Decca Import / 2011-03-29

Works: Alessandro Striggio: Ecce beatam lucem; Missa "Ecco si beato giorno", for 40 voices; Fuggi, spene mia, intermedi; O giovenil ardire, intermedi; Altr'io che queste spighe, madrigal for 12 voices; D'og...
Performers: Headley, Erin; Long, Matthew [Vocals]; Miller, David [Lute/Baroque Guitar]; Sayce, Lynda
Conductors: Hollingworth, Robert

A feast of Renaissance choral music from Italy and England, the album (and bonus DVD) reveals a work by the Italian Alessandro Striggio - believed...continue...
Recording information: All Saints, Tooting, London, England (09/23/2010-10/01/2010)....continue...

Couperin Apothéoses de Lully; Les Nations

1 CD / Decca Import / 2010-07-06

Works: François Couperin: L'Apothéose de Lully, for various instruments & continuo; Les Nations, sonatas & suites for 2 violins & continuo
Performers: Dart, Thurston; Dupré, Desmond; Goff, Thomas; Leppard, Raymond; Marriner, Sir Neville; Pini, Carl
Conductors:
Ensemble: Jacobean Ensemble

Maynard: The XII Wonders of the World, 1611; Characters Songs

1 CD / Decca Import / 2010-07-06

Works: John Maynard: The 12 Wonders of the World, for voices & ensemble; Thomas Campion: Jack and Joan, for voices, lute & ensemble; Tobias Hume: Tobacco for bass & ensemble; Anonymous, English: The Poor So...
Performers: Elliot, Paul [Tenor Vocal]; Hill, Martyn; Kirkby, Emma; Rooley, Anthony [Lute]; Skinner, John York; Thomas, David [Bass Vocal]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Consort of Musicke

Recording information: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London, UK (01/1975)....continue...

The Lute Is a Song / Edin Karamazov

1 CD / Decca Import / 2009-10-20

Works: Leo Brouwer: Paisaje Cubano con Rumba, for 4 guitars; Sting: Alone with my thoughts this evening, song; Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D minor, BWV 565; Henry Purcell: Dido and...
Performers: Fleming, Renée; Karamazov, Edin; Scholl, Andreas; Sting
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kaliopi

Established as today's most exciting and charismatic player of the lute, Edin Karamazov, the featured lutenist of Sting's best-selling album 'Songs from the Labyrinth' now...continue...
Personnel: Edin Karamazov (electric guitar, archlute, theorbo); Renée Fleming (soprano); Andreas Scholl (countertenor).

Recording information: Friendship 7 Studio, Kiedrich, Germany; Legac...continue...

Virtuoso [Bonus Tracks]

1 CD / Decca Import / 2008-03-25

Works: Ennio Morricone: La Califfa; Georges Bizet: Carmen Fantasies (arranged by various composers); James Hetfield: Nothing Else Matters, song; Vittorio Monti: Csárdás; Arthur Smith: Duelin' Banj...
Performers: Amoakohene, Barbara; Bacon, Kevin; Boyd, Eddie; Cortes, Andy; Dyani, Thomas; Garrett, David; Hassing, Anne-Marie; Hassing, Claus; Heijden, Francine van der; Kelly, Frances [Harp]; Kenny, Elizabeth [T...
Conductors: Groslot, Robert

Personnel: David Garrett (violin); Jonathan Quarmby (whistling, guitar, piano); Mark Sheridan (guitar, flamenco guitar, background vocals); Ed Boyd, Robbie McIntosh (guitar); Paco Peña (flamenco...continue...

Purcell: Songs & Airs / Kirkby, Hogwood, Rooley, et al

1 CD / Decca Import / 2007-11-13

Works: Henry Purcell: Hark how all things in one sound agree (from "The Fairy Queen"), aria, Z. 629/47; Celebrate this festival (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary), ode for 5 soloists, double chorus, 2 oboes, 2; ...
Performers: Campbell, Richard; Hogwood, Christopher [Conductor]; Kirkby, Emma; Mackintosh, Catherine; Rooley, Anthony [Lute]

Recorded in 1982, this collection of Songs and Airs by Purcell features world-renowned early music singer Emma Kirkby. It was produced during the ‘revival’ of...continue...

The Best of Andreas Scholl

1 CD / Decca Import / 2006-10-10

Works: George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; Rodelinda; Rinaldo; Giulio Cesare; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Antonio Vivaldi: Salve Regina, antiphon for voice, double chorus, 2 recorders, flute, double stri...
Performers: Armstrong, Siobhán; Bonney, Barbara; Brough, Harvey; Dantone, Ottavio; Karamazov, Edin; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Na, Hyun-Sun; Scholl, Andreas; Shames, Stacey
Conductors: Norrington, Roger; Dyer, Paul; Dantone, Ottavio; Rousset, Christophe
Ensemble: ; Accademia Bizantina; Les Talens Lyriques

The essential collection featuring one-of-a-kind countertenor Andreas Scholl, who burst on the music scene in 1999 to critical acclaim. "Scholl's voice rushes through the bloodstream."...continue...

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 / Gardiner

2 CD / Decca Import / 1994-10-11

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine; Exultent caeli et gaudeant angeli, motet for 5 voices, SV 304; Giovanni Gabrieli: Audite principes; Angelus ad pastores ait; Quem vidistis pastores, mo...
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Brett, Charles; Gomez, Jill; Hicks, Malcolm; Hill, Martyn; Kraemer, Nicholas; Langridge, Philip; Messana, John Angelo; Palmer, Felicity; Rippon, Michael; Ross, Ala...
Conductors: Gardiner, John Eliot
Ensemble: David Monrow Recorder Ensemble; Philip Jones Brass Ensemble; Philip Jones Wind Ensemble