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A Song of Farewell: Music of Mourning & Consolation / Gabrieli Consort

1 CD / Signum UK / 2012-03-08

Works: Orlando Gibbons: Hymn; William Walton: A Litany; Robert White: Christe, qui lux es et dies; James MacMillan: A Child's Prayer, for treble, chorus & organ; John Sheppard: In manus tuas Domine no 1; Jo...
Conductors: McCreesh, Paul
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

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This is a concept album, a sequence of purgative music on the theme of death by a wide range of British composers from the...continue...
Recording information: Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral (11/08/2009-11/10/2009)....continue...

The Sixteen Edition - Purcell: Love's Goddess Sure was Blind

1 CD / Coro / 2006-02-27

Works: Henry Purcell: Jehova, quam multi sunt, Z 135; Miserere Mei ("Canon 4 in 2"), canon for 4 voices, Z. 109; In the midst of life; Incassum, Lesbia, rogas, Z 383 "Queen's Epicedium"; Love's goddess sure...
Performers: Berridge, Simon; Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Crabtree, Libby; Lane, Carys-Anne; MacKenzie, Neil; Orsler, Helen; Woodcock, David

'This magnificent contribution...breaks new ground in scholarship, matching it with performances of the highest order...the elegy 'O Dive Custos,' with the astonishingly boy-like voices of...continue...