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Chamber Vespers - Miniature Masterpieces Of The Italian Baroque / Faye Newton, soprano

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2011-09-27

Works: Orazio Tarditi: Domine ad adjuvandum me; Nisi Dominus (Psalm 4), for 2 voices & continuo; Adriano Banchieri: Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109); Magnificat primi toni; Giovanni Paolo Cima: Sonatas (6) "Concer...
Performers: Devine, Steven; Glenton, Gawain; Newton, Faye; Sweeney, Richard; Wilkinson, Clare
Conductors:
Ensemble: Gonzaga Band

Vespers, the evening portion of the Divine Office of the Roman-Catholic Church, has provided both occasion and inspiration for some of the most sumptuous music...continue...
Recording information: St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London (08/04/2010-08/06/2010)....continue...

Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantatas & Chamber Music

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2010-04-27

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: Bella dama di nome Santa 'Tu sei quella'; Bella dama di nome Santa; Ardo, è ver, per te d'amore, chamber cantata for soprano, flute & continuo (incomplete); Sinfonie di con...
Performers: Fox, Karina; Miller, Eve; Ngai, Emlyn; Roberts, Gwyn [Recorder]; Rottsolk, Clara [Soprano]; Stone, Richard [Arranger/Conductor]

Tempesta di Mare, the Chamber Players from the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, have chosen cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti which best show the range of invention for...continue...
Recording information: St Peter's Church in the Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsyl (11/19/2001-11/21/2009)....continue...

Opera in English - Yvonne Kenny 2 - R. Strauss, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-08-26

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Così fan tutte, K 588; Richard Strauss: Arabella; Capriccio, Op 85; Franz L...
Performers: Edwards, Catherine; Evans, Rebecca; Ford, Bruce [Tenor Vocal]; Jones, Tim; Kenny, Yvonne; Quinteiro, Eligio; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Woodhouse, Nigel
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

A. Gabrieli - The Madrigal in Venice / Hollingworth, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-06-24

Works: Andrea Gabrieli: Del gran tuonante la sorella e moglie, madrigal for 10 voices; Sassi, palae, sabion del Adrian lio, madrigal for 5 voices; Felici d'Adria et dilettose rive, madrigal for 8 voices; I'...
Performers: Blaze, Robin; Devine, Steven; Mulroy, Nicholas; Pierron, Catherine; Quinteiro, Eligio
Conductors: Hollingworth, Robert
Ensemble: English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble

"This imaginatively constructed disc, punctuated by instrumental items, presents as a main course a selection of Andrea's setting of Italian texts which reveals an unexpected...continue...

Opera in English - Great Operatic Arias / Elizabeth Futral

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-06-24

Works: George Frederick Handel: Alcina; Semele; Gaetano Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix; Gioachino Rossini: Zelmira; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seragli...
Performers: Banks, Barry; Cohen, David; Futral, Elizabeth [Soprano Vocals]; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Montague, Diana; Robinson, Dean; Wakeford, Lucy; Wedd, Peter
Conductors: White, Steven

"...there is much to enjoy here, especially in the French items where Futral's whitish tone sounds idiomatic, her high notes even tending towards the slight...continue...

Corelli: Sonatas for Strings / Lindberg, Purcell Quartet

4 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-03-25

Works: Arcangelo Corelli: Sonate da chiesa a tre (Trio Sonatas) (12), for 2 violins, violone (or archlute) & organ, Op. 1; Trio Sonatas (12) for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo, Op. 2; Sonate da chiesa a tre (...
Performers: Lindberg, Jakob; Wooley, Robert

Gramophone Classical Music Guide
Corelli's chamber music was reprinted 84 times during his lifetime and 31 more during the rest of the 18th century, a record...continue...