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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. |
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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. |
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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 View sleeve notes/artwork (PDF) 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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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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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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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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