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The Kings Pavan |
The York Waits | Stock Code: bmywkp
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From the opening fanfare version of Blow Thy Horn Hunter, this disc is full of fresh and interesting interpretations of the tunes we know so well, as well as some less familiar gems. Why shouldn't Blow Thy Horn be performed on natural trumpets? Or The King's Pavan on the rebec, or Pass Time With Good Company slowly and soulfully on the lute? And why shouldn't a hurdy-gurdy player stop the handle and play rests? Yet when did you last hear these things done?
Of course the album does have its more reflective side and this is not only the prerogative of the recorders and lutes. There are some much more stately shawm tracks, including Lauda anima mea Dominum, better known to most of our waits bands as the livelier Munster. Possibly my favourite, however, is the arrangements of My Lady Carey's Dompe and the Hornpipe d'Angleterre with violin and plucked strings. The use of the harp as a bass instrument here gives the texture a fantastic depth. |
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Piva Heigh Ho Holiday |
Piva | Stock Code: bmpivacd
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Heigh Ho Holiday features English dance music and ballad tunes from the late 16th century and many of the tunes will be familiar to you if you have seen Piva in concert.
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Flying Horse – Music from the ML Lutebook |
Elizabeth Kenny (lute) | Stock Code: BMCDA67776
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Mysterious doodles on a 17th-century manuscript provided Liz Kenny with the inspiration for this fascinating disc. The ownership of the ML Lutebook has been attributed to a number of court musicians from its discovery in 1912, but it was the name ‘Margaret' occasionally scrawled throughout the copy which caught the contemporary performer's imagination. Kenny writes that ‘this chimed with the train of thought that was beginning to focus on what and who these books were compiled for, rather than on any single composer who wrote them, and put it in line with other books belonging to Jane Pickeringe and Margaret Board (lute), Elizabeth Rogers (virginals), and Lady Ann Blount (singing), where a remarkable level of virtuosity was associated with private performance by women. There are plenty of great men and great tunes within its covers but ‘Margaret' has remained in my mind over the years that I've been fascinated by the book'.
The Flying Horse (track 24) is an anonymous piece that seems to sum up the spirit of the book, a ground bass spiced up with an exotic chord of A flat and an incitement to improvise. Works by Dowland, Johnson, Bacheler, Sturt and others summon up an exhilarating musical world influenced by the court, the theatre and the cries of the street, and where mansucripts, passed from hand to hand, became palimpsests of the perfomer's own art.
Liz Kenny, arguably the greatest lutenist of today, performs this entrancing collection with an aplomb and flair that seems to directly channel those virtuoso performers who were handed the music with the ink still wet on the page. |
The Battle Galliard [3'01] John Dowland (1563
Mr Holborn's Last Will and Testament [4'40] A
Tom of Bedlam [2'09] Anonymous - Renaissance
John come kiss me now [4'03] Anonymous - Rena
A Pavin [6'56] Robert Johnson (c1583-1633)
Corant [1'39] Anonymous - Renaissance
Corant 'Le Testament' [3'16] Julien Perrichon
The Battle [8'02] Anonymous - Renaissance
A Pavin [6'19] Robert Johnson (c1583-1633)
A Gallyard by Mr Dan Bacheler [1'40] Daniel B
A Gallyard upon the Gallyard before [2'01] Jo
Corant [1'42] Anonymous - Renaissance
Corant 'de la Durette' [1'16] Anonymous - Ren
La Courante Sarabande [2'00] Robert Ballard (
Corant [1'31] Anonymous - Renaissance
A Volte [1'12] Mercure d'Orléans (fl c1590-c1
A Volte [1'09] John Sturt (d1625)
A Pavin [4'46] Robert Johnson (c1583-1633)
Allmayne 'The Prince's Almain' [1'08] Robert
The Noble Man [1'58] Robert Johnson (c1583-16
Allmayne 'Hit it and take it' [1'29] Robert J
Allmayne and Corant [3'04] Anonymous - Renais
Gray's Inn Maske [1'21] Anonymous - Renais
The Flying Horse [3'47] Anonymous - Renaissance
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Song of Songs |
Stile Antico | Stock Code: BMHMU80748
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Gramophone Editor's Choice
The most ‘profane' book of the Old Testament was among the favourite biblical texts of the Middle Ages. The composers of the Renaissance made particular use of it as a metaphor of divine love, or in association with the cult of Mary. After their first two extremely successful recordings, the singers of Stile Antico have chosen some of the finest specimens of these musical settings. |
Ego flos campi Clemens non Papa
Osculetur me Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Antiphon: Cum esset rex Plain-chant
Surge, propera amica mea Francisco Guerrero
Quam pulchra es Nicolas Gombert
Antiphon: Nigra sum Plain-chant
Veni, dilecte mi Roland de Lassus
Vadam et circuibo Tomas Luis de Victoria
Alleluia: Tota pulchra es Plain-chant
Ego flos campi Francisco Guerrero
Nigra sum Jean Lhéritier
Antiphon: Laeva eius Plain-chant
Hortus conclusus Rodrigo de Ceballos
Nigra sum Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Antiphon: Speciosa facta es Plain-chant
Veni, dilecte mi Sebastian de Vivanco
Trahe me post te Francisco Guerrero
Antiphon: Iam hiems transiit Plain-chant
Vidi speciosam Tomas Luis de Victoria
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The Sacred Flame |
John Rutter Conductor The Cambridge Singers La Nuo | Stock Code: cd506
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The Sacred Flame:
European Sacred Music of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras
John Rutter Conductor
The Cambridge Singers
La Nuova Musica
COLCD 134
A major new disc from John Rutter, the Cambridge Singers and La Nuova Musica, featuring a collection of outstanding motests from the canon of European sacred choral repertoire.
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Music from the Chirk Castle Part-Books |
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice (conductor) | Stock Code: cd501
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William Mundy's Te Deum ‘for trebles' from the Chirk Castle Part-Books. MS Mus.Res.*MNZ(Chirk).
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation
NEW
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Recording details: July 2008
Merton College Chapel, Oxford, United Kingdom
Produced by David Trendell
Engineered by Justin Lowe
Release date: April 2009
Total duration: 70 minutes 53 seconds
'The new works are undoubtedly significant additions to the repertoire. On that count alone this recording is self-recommending. An even greater name among the new additions is that of Tallis … the predominant sonority is familiarly clear, transparent and assured … for the sake of the new pieces alone, lovers of this repertory will welcome this enthusiastically' (Gramophone) |
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How the world wags Social Music for a 17th-century |
The City Waites | Stock Code: cd0688
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How the world wags
Social Music for a 17th-century Englishman
The City Waites
'Splendid, vigorous, animated, hilarious' (Hi Fi News)
'Highly entertaining' (Classical Music)
'Rollicking good fun' (The Cornish Guardian)
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Jamaica, or The Jovial Broom Man, or a Kent Soldie
Galliard [1:50] Maurice Webster (fl1621-1636)
Who liveth so merry [4:57] Thomas Ravenscroft (c
The Saint Turned Sinner, or The Dissenting Parso
Ayre from 'Little Consort' Suite in G minor [1:13
Martin said to his man [2:10] Thomas Ravenscroft
The Miller of Dee 'There was a jolly miller once'
Packington's Pound [2:12] Anonymous - traditiona
Pox on you for a fop [1:56] Henry Purcell (1659-
The hunt is up [2:06] John Bennet (1570-1615)
Almain [1:18] Cuthbert Hely (fl1620-1648)
The Jolly Barber, or The Barber fitted by a Wanton
As I walked forth, or The Deceased Maiden Lover [
Seldom cleanly 'Draw near you country girls' [3:3
Sonata in G [2:44] William Croft (1678-1727)
Tomorrow the fox will come to town [2:24] Thom
The Winchester Wedding 'At Winchester was a wedd
Saraband from 'Little Consort' Suite in G minor
Gather your rosebuds [1:29] William Lawes (1602-
A Bellman's Song 'Maids to bed and cover cole' [1
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Harp music of the Italian Renaissance |
Andrew Lawrence-King (harp) | Stock Code: cd0687
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Harp music of the Italian Renaissance
Andrew Lawrence-King (harp)
Recording details: August 1986
Seldon Hall, Haberdashers' Aske's School, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Release date: July 2004
'An impressive debut, beautifully recorded' (Gramophone)
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Toccata Seconda & Ligature [2:46] Giovanni Mari
Gagliarda Terza a 4, detta la Talianella [2:13]
Ancidetemi pur [7:12] Giovanni Maria Trabaci (15
Gagliarda Terza a 5, sopra La Mantoana [3:25] Gi
Partite sopra Zefiro [10:50] Giovanni Maria Tr
Gagliarda Quarta, alla Spagnola [4:20] Giovanni
La Barriera [4:08] Cesare Negri (c1536-fl1604)
Vergine Bella [2:37] Anonymous - traditional
Brando per Quattro Pastore e Quattro Ninfe [5:32]
Toccata Prima [5:03] Ascanio Mayone (c1565-1627)
Gagliarda Prima [2:42] Anonymous - traditional
Canzon Cromatica [4:03] Fabrizio Fillimarino (f
Amarilli mia bella [3:18] Giuliano Caccini (1546
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Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) Christmas Music |
Westminster Cathedral Choir, The Parley of Instrum | Stock Code: cd0683
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Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Christmas Music
Westminster Cathedral Choir, The Parley of Instruments, David Hill (conductor)
‘My favourite ever Christmas recording. Lovely music, done with affection and great sympathy' (Hi-Fi News)
‘A glorious early Baroque Christmas treat' (Harmonia)
'Well crafted music, sensitively performed and recorded' (Gramophone)
'Exciting and highly enjoyable' (The Good CD Guide)
'A delightful record' (Organists' Review)
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Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
Pueri nostri concinite 'Singet und klinget' [3:
Dances from Terpsichore
Puer natus in Bethlehem
Quem pastores laudavere
Vom Himmel hoch
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
Dances from Terpsichore
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Nun helft mir Gottes Güte schon preisen
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William Mundy (c1530-before 1591)Cathedral Music |
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor) | Stock Code: cd0682
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William Mundy (c1530-before 1591)
Cathedral Music
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
'For a wallow in the richest cream of English Reformation church music you couldn't do much better than this' (Early Music Review)
'Intense brilliance and utter serenity … altogether glorious' (The Times)
'Moving presentation of some neglected wonders of the Tudor era' (Fanfare, USA)
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O Lord, the maker of all things
Videte miraculum
Sive vigilem
Ah, helpless wretch
Vox Patris caelestis
Kyrie 'Orbis factor'
O Lord, the world's Saviour
Magnificat 'in medio chori'
Nunc dimittis 'in medio chori'
The secret sins
Beatus et sanctus
Adolescentulus sum ego
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