Purcell - Ah! how sweet it is to love (from Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr, Z613)
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2001, Disc of the Month
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Remember Your Lovers
Songs by Tippett, Britten, Purcell & Pelham Humfrey
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano)
John Mark Ainsley brings the full range of his formidable musicianship to these hard-wrought but haunting masterpieces. His ringing high register and almost miraculously expressive pianissimo... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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Apparition
Music by George Crumb & Henry Purcell
Christine Schäfer (soprano) & Eric Schneider (piano/amplified piano)
Given Christine Schäfer's wide-ranging repertoire, this mixing of 17th-century English and 20th-century American songs is no surprise. Her exemplary clarity of tone and diction, and her emotional... — More…
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Henry Purcell: Ayres & Songs from Orpheus Britannicus
Harmonia Sacra & Complete Organ Music
Jill Feldman (soprano), Nigel North (archlute), Sarah Cunningham (bass viol)
Davitt Moroney
Instrumental contributions are exemplary, not least Davitt Moroney’s account of the organ works which interleave the sacred items. — More…
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Purcell: Sweeter than Roses & Britten: Winter Words
Ian Partridge (tenor), George Malcolm (harpsichord), Jennifer Partridge (piano)
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Mr Henry Purcell's Most Admirable Composures
James Bowman (countertenor)
The King's Consort, Robert King
James Bowman must surely be the finest vocal interpreter of Purcell today. His grasp of sentiment, his sense of timing, and his enunciation, are unsurpassed — More…
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Ah! How Sweet It Is To Love
Songs for the theatre
Carolyn Sinclair (soprano), Michel Jarvis (harpsichord), Margaret Gay (baroque cello)
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Purcell - The Food of Love
Sacred & Secular Songs
Paul Agnew (tenor), Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol), Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo, guitar) & Blandine Rannou (harpsichord)
Paul Agnew's long experience in the realm of French Baroque music makes him particularly sensitive to le goût français, his voice supple enough to realise with exquisite grace the intricate,... — More…
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Purcell Edition, Vol. 2 - Theatre Music
Rosemary Hardy, Dinah Harris, Jennifer Smith (sopranos), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Martyn Hill, John Elwes (tenors), Stephen Varcoe (baritone) & David Thomas (bass), Carol Hall (mezzo-soprano), John Elwes (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone) & David Thomas, Roderick Earle (basses), Lynne...
The choral singing is especially fine, with the close of the work movingly expressive… for The Tempest, Gardiner demonstrates how delightful it is, a masterly collection, in performances both... — More…
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