Cavendish, Michael

Requiem for a Pink Moon: An Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-05-08

Works: Nick Drake: Road; Pink Moon; Horn; Place to be; Which Will; Rider on the Wheel; Time Has Told Me; Hanging on a Star; Voice from the Mountain; Northern Sky; Harvest Breed; From the Morning; Joel Frede...
Performers: Frederiksen, Joel
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Ensemble: Ensemble Phoenix Munich

Following the success of his 2011 album Rose of Sharon - a celebration of 18th Century American music that landed on Billboard's classical chart and...continue...
Recording information: Alter Reitstadel, Neumarkt (Oberpfalz) (03/2011).

Ever since critics began to place "She's Leaving Home" and some of the other more elaborate Beatles songs within the cla...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...

Dowland: Clear Or Cloudy - Lute Songs

1 CD / Musica Ficta / 2010-01-02

Works: John Dowland: A Pilgrimes Solace; Say love if ever thou ditst find, D 58; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Come Again; Mrs. Winters Jump, for lute, P 55; Can she excuse, P 42; Second Booke of Songes; Mr D...
Performers: Mignaco, Valeria [Soprano]

At the end of the 15th century, the Italians developed a way of rendering polyphony on the lute, plucking with the fingers instead of with...continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Remy de Franc-Waret (Belgique) (05/13/2008-05/16/2008)....continue...

Gossiana - 1920s Anthology of Song / Goss Male Quartet

1 CD / Divine Art / 2008-08-12

Works: English Traditional: Agincourt; The Three Ravens, folk song; Here's a Health unto Her Majesty; Anonymous, French: L' amour de moi, song; John Danyel: I die whenas I do no see her; Michael Cavendish: ...
Performers: Davies, Giles; Devine, Steven

This recording of songs in memory of John Goss, who was an influential British singer, scholar and bon vivant, draws from Goss's publications and interests....continue...

The Triumphs of Oriana - Morley, etc / King's Singers

1 CD / Signum UK / 2006-10-08

Works: Michael East: Hence, Stars, Too Dim of Light for 5 voices; Daniel Norcombe: With Angel's Face, madrigal; John Mundy: Lightly she whipped o'er the dales; Ellis Gibbons: Long live fair Oriana, madrigal...

A collection of 25 madrigals from 23 different composers - from the famous to the obscure - make up this Elizabethan curiosity, published in 1601...continue...

The Triumphs of Oriana / David Miller, I Fagiolini

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2002-03-26

Works: John Wilbye: The lady Oriana, madrigal; Richard Nicholson: Sing, shepherds all, madrigal for 5 voices; John Mundy: Lightly she whipped o'er the dales; Richard Carlton: Calm was the air and clear the ...
Performers: David Miller [Lute/Baroque Guitar]

This is the first in a series of three discs on the Chaconne label released to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Queen...continue...