Simpson, Christopher

An English Fancy - Works by Byrd, Hume, Lawes, Jenkins, Simpson, Baltzar, Locke, Purcell / Trio Settecento

1 CD / Cedille / 2012-10-30

Works: William Byrd: Sellinger's Round, variations for keyboard, MB 84; Tobias Hume: Captain Hume Lamentation (Poeticall Musicke); William Lawes: Fantasia-Suite no 8 for 2 violins, bass viol & continuo in D...
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Ensemble: Trio Settecento

Trio Settecento, the "superlative Chicago-based early music ensemble" (Gramophone) completes its grand tour of the European Baroque with An English Fancy, its highly anticipated survey...continue...
Recording information: Nichols Concert Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, Evans (08/01/2011-08/05/2011)....continue...

Division-Musick - works from the Baroque by Jenkins, Lawes, Simpson, Baltzar, Eccles et al. / Musicke & Mirth

1 CD / Ramee / 2012-08-14

Works: John Jenkins: Lyra, viol consort in D major; Lyra viol consort in D minor; William Lawes: Divisions for 2 bass viola da gambas & organ in G minor; Christopher Simpson: Divisions in G major for 2 bass...
Performers: Beyer, Amandine; Strobl, Johannes
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Ensemble: Musicke & Mirth

"Division-Musick" is a term used by Christopher Simpson during the 17th century to describe a typically English improvisatory style of diminution. Musicians generally used short...continue...
Recording information: Künstlerhaus, Boswil, Switzerland (02/2011-03/2011)....continue...

La Gamba

1 CD / Alba / 2011-09-13

Works: Diego Ortiz: Recercada no 1 (Trattado de glosas); Recercada no 2; Trattado de glosas; Recercada No 8; Recercada No 5; Ruggiero (Quinta pars IX); Recercada no 3 (in Trattato de Glosas); Recercada no 7...
Performers: Suihkonen, Mika
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Ensemble: Ballo Della Battalia

Viola da gamba player Mika Suihkonen trained as a cellist. He founded the early music ensemble Battalia with a group of high school friends and...continue...
Recording information: Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen (11/21/2009-11/24/2009)....continue...

Music for Viola da Gamba / Weiland Kuijken

1 CD / Regis Records / 2011-09-02

Works: Carl Friedrich Abel: [Arpeggio] for solo viola da gamba, WKO 205; Piece in D minor for bass viol, WKO 206; Allegro for solo viola da gamba, WKO 207; Adagio, for viola da gamba (Ms Drexel 5871), WKO 2...
Performers: Kuijken, Wieland [Cello, Viola da Gamba]

Music for a Viol: English Viol Music of the 17th Century

1 CD / Accent / 2011-05-01

Works: Christopher Simpson: Divisions on a Ground for 2 bass viols in C major; Divisions on a Ground in F major, for 2 violas da gamba; Divisions in E minor for solo bass viol & organ "Minuritiones septimae...
Performers: Kohnen, Robert; Kuijken, Wieland [Cello, Viola da Gamba]

Recording information: St. Stephanuskerk, Melsen, Belgium (05/1980)....continue...

Musical Humors & Lamentations

1 CD / EtCetera Records / 2011-04-12

Works: Antony Holborne: Almain; Playfellow no 2 "Wanton"; Thomas Robinson: Passamezzo Galliard, for lute; Tobias Hume: Fain Would I Change That Note for soprano & ensemble; Touche me lightly (No 38 in Music...
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Ensemble: L'Art du Bois

The ensemble L’Art du Bois presents an abundance of musical treasures from the most varied composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all of whom...continue...
Recording information: Matthias-Claudius Kapelle, Freiburg-Günterstal, Germany (05/06/2009/05/17/2009)....continue...

Purcell: The Food of Love / Paul Agnew, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2009-09-29

Works: Henry Purcell: Fairy Queen, Z 629; Corinna is divinely fair, Z. 365; Ah! How sweet it is to love, Z. 613/2; What a sad fate is mine, a song on a Ground, Z. 428; I see she flies me, Z. 573/1b; O solit...
Performers: Agnew, Paul [Tenor Vocals]; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Lasla, Anne-Marie; Rannou, Blandine

"The recital is nicely varied, from the anguished and sophisticated Not all my torments can your pity move, to the ribald, earthy Man is for...continue...

Divisions and Fantasias / Coolen, Zipperling, Ayrton

1 CD / Globe / 2009-09-01

Works: George Tollett: Tollet's Ground, for viol (from The Division-Viol); Giovanni Coprario: Fantasia-Suite no 12 in D minor for violin, bass viol & organ; Fantasia-Suite no 1 in G minor for violin, bass v...
Performers: Ayrton, Patrick; Coolen, Saskia; Zipperling, Rainer

[The Venice Collection] - An Excess of Pleasure & The Winged Lion / Palladian Ensemble

2 CD / Linn Records / 2009-06-30

Works: Marco Uccellini: Sonate, arie et correnti, Op 3; Sonate, arie et correnti, Op. 3; Sonate, correnti et arie, Op 4; Nicola Matteis: Ayres for the Violin; Ayres for the Violin, Book 4; Matthew Locke: Br...
Performers: Carter, William; Levine, Joanna; Podger, Rachel; Thorby, Pamela
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Ensemble: Palladian Ensemble

BBC Music Magazine
Sparkling playing with the sense of uninhibited joy which only technical mastery and unbridled imagination can generate.
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Breaking the Ground - Simpson: The Division Viol; Sumarte, Younge / Rozendaal, Schrader

1 CD / Centaur / 2008-04-04

Works: Christopher Simpson: Division (II) for viola da gamba in D major (Division-Viol); Prelude in B-flat major (from the Division Viol); Divisions for viola da gamba in B flat major (from the Division Vio...
Performers: Rozendaal, John Mark; Schrader, David

John Mark Rozendaal specializes in teaching and performing stringed instrument music from the Baroque and Renaissance eras. As founding Artistic Director of Chicago Baroque Ensemble,...continue...

Simpson: The Seasons Vol 1 / Watillon, Heumann, et al

1 CD / Alpha Productions / 2007-09-01

Works: Christopher Simpson: Fantasia Suite, for treble instrument, 2 bass viols & continuo ("Winter"); Divisions in A minor for 3 bass viols; Fantasias (12) for ensemble "The Months"; Prélude for sol...
Performers: Guglielmi, Luca; Spaeter, Matthias

'The Monthes' is a set of twelve fantasies for consort of viols and thorough bass written in three parts, Fantasy, Allemande, and Galliard. 'The Seasons'...continue...

The Oxford Psalms - Lawes, Purcell, etc / Charivari Agréable

1 CD / Signum UK / 2007-05-02

Works: William Lawes: O Lord, in thee (The Lamentation), for voice, theorbo & continuo; Cast me not, Lord (Psalm 51), for voice, theorbo & continuo; O God my strength and fortitude (Psalm 18/1), for voice, ...
Performers: Ng, Kah-Ming
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Ensemble: Charivari Agréable

Charivari Agreable present an imaginative new disc themed around their home town of Oxford. They are joined by a formidable line-up of singers including Rodrigo...continue...

Flow My Tears

1 Super Audio CD / Aliud / 2007-01-16

Works: Diego Ortiz: Doulce mémoire (after Sandrin); Recercada segonda sobre Doulce Mémoire; Recercada tercera; Recercada primera ("Oi, ricciulina"); Thomas Morley: La sampogna, fantasia for in...
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Ensemble: Lacrimae Ensemble

Recording information: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk Kolham (08/02/2005-08/04/2005)....continue...

The Devil's Dream / Ghielmi, Pianca, Gibelli

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2006-12-12

Works: Solomon Eccles: A Ground; Thomas Robinson: Plaine Song; Queene's good night; Fantasy; Thomas Ford: Why not here, M. Crosse his choice; Cate of Bardy, The Queenes Jig; John Dowland: My Lord Willobes W...
Performers: Ghielmi, Vittorio; Gibelli, Graciela; Noir, J.D.; Pianca, Luca

In this their third collaboration with harmonia mundi, Luca Pianca and Vittorio Ghielmi perform English music from the time of Elizabeth I. As with their...continue...

Solo Viola da Gamba / John Dornenburg

1 CD / Centaur / 2005-05-01

Works: Tobias Hume: The first part of ayres; Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke; Jean de Sainte-Colombe: Pièces de viole seule, 153 pieces (MS. M.3 Bibliothéque Municipale de Tournus); Christoph...
Performers: Dornenburg, John

Musickes Sweetest Joyes / Jacobs, Linden, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Channel Classics / 2004-10-12

Works: Christopher Simpson: Prelude in D (The Division-Viol, 1665); Divisions for viola da gamba & continuo in D; Prelude [in E] (The Dicision-Viol, 1665); Division on a Ground in E minor, for viola da gamb...
Performers: Jacobs, Fred [Theorbo]; Kooij, Peter; ter Linden, Jaap [Cello]; van der Velden, Mieneke; Zomer, Johannette [Soprano Vocal]

The gentle melancholy which underlies the sound of the viola da gamba made it the instrument par excellence in 17th century England. Sadness was the...continue...

Villa Medici - Nata per la musica

1 CD / Winter & Winter / 2001-06-05

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for solo cello no 6 in D major, BWV 1012; Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf (I), chorale prelude for organ (Orgel-Büchlein no 19), BWV 6; Domenico Scarlatti: So...
Performers: Anzellotti, Teodoro; Bern, Alan; Bianchi, Marco; Ghielmi, Vittorio; Klucevsek, Guy; Pianca, Luca; Reijseger, Ernst
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Ensemble: Gaia Scienza

Simpson: The Four Seasons / Les Voix Humaines

1 CD / ATMA / 2000-08-01

Works: Christopher Simpson: The Seasons, 4 fantaisie-suites for treble viol, 2 bass viols & continuo
Performers: Fentross, Mike; Poirier, Rejean
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Ensemble: Les Voix Humaines

Spirite of Musicke / Suzie Le Blanc, Les Voix Humaines

1 CD / ATMA / 1998-03-01

Works: Giovanni Coprario: 'Tis Now Dead Night (To the Most Sacred Queen Anne), song (from Songs of Mourning); To the World, song (from Songs of Mourning); Tobias Hume: Touch Me Sweetly (from The First Part ...
Performers: LeBlanc, Suzie [Soprano Vocals]
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Ensemble: Les Voix Humaines

The Listener
Suzie Le Blanc’s voice is a thing to be treasured. I must listen to early music much more, especially when this lady sings
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