| METCD1083 - Grace Davidson & Fiori Musicali - Sacred Arias and Songs |
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A new recording by the ascending British star of the early music and baroque scene. This is the first album devoted entirely to her own voice and features her in a range of early music repertoire from Hildegard to Mozart and is accompanied by the original instrument orchestra Fiori Musicali.
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Metronome announces the release of a CD devoted to the sacred music for voices and orchestra of the Bohemian baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. Fiori Musicali’s new recording features countertenor James Bowman as soloist in one of the Lamentations, as well as the first UK recording of the Requiem in C Minor, a work of scale and grandeur, whose origins scholars continue to debate. Lasting some 38 minutes the Requiem is scored for choir, soloists, strings and sackbutts (with members of His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts) and its style is suitably solemn though curiously galant in the Dies Irae.
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MET 1078 - Carole Cerasi - The English Suites (Bach) |
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NEW RECORDING OF BACH ENGLISH SUITES FROM VIRTUOSO LONDON BASED HARPSICHORDIST CAROLE CERASI
The English Suites are the earliest of Bach’s three major collections of keyboard Suites. They were written in Weimar between 1708 and 1717 and are considerably more technically demanding than anything that had been written for harpsichord before in Germany. It is not known exactly why they are called “English”: a copy once in the possession of his son J.C.Bach – the London Bach is headed “pour les Anglois”, but a more likely explanation is that they follow a suite form established by the composer Dieupart, who settled in London in 1700, and thus known to Bach as English.
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| MET 1077 - Nicolas Hodges - Salvatore Sciarrino |
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The Metronome Recordings release from Nicolas Hodges is now available - perhaps the most long-awaited of all his recent releases.
Recorded in December 2003 at the BBC Maida Vale Studio in London, Complete Piano Works 1994-2001 took place under the artistic supervision of composer Salvatore Sciarrino and with production by Philip Tagney of BBC Radio 3.
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MET 1075 - Music & Art - Rafael, The Music of Courtier |
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This disc was commissioned for the 2004-2005
exhibition of Raphael at the National
Gallery in London. It includes performances by the
leading British renaissance performers. Masterpieces
of sacred and secular music of the Renaissance trace
the life of Raphael from the courts of Urbino, his
birthplace, to Florence, where music and art both
flourished under the patronage of the Medici, to his
final years working at the papal court in Rome.
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MET 1074 - Harrison Birtwistle - The Axe Manual |
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Axe Manual (2000) , Oockooing Bird, Sad Song, Berceuse de Jeanne, Précis, Hector’s Dawn, Ostinato with Melody, Betty Freeman:Her Tango, Saraband: The Kings’ Farewell, Harrison’s Clocks.
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MET 1068 / 1069 - Richard Rodney Bennett - Complete Works for Solo Piano |
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"Martin Jones obviously relishes every ounce of Bennett’s superbly crafted and attractive music. Warmly recommended" (Classical CD Review)
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MET 1066 - William Mathias - Songs of William Blake |
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“The untimely death of William Mathias in July 1992
(aged 57) robbed British music of one of its most
natural communicators and consummate craftsmen.
This new anthology offers a rewarding and varied
portrait of a much-loved figure. The first disc by the
Welsh Chamber Orchestra:established in 1986, they
leave a very positive impression under their founder
and principal conductor Anthony Hose.” Gramophone
November 2004
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MET 1065 - A Garland for Presteigne |
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Twelve new songs celebrating the Welsh border country. Presteigne, the small border town has hosted a music Festival which has a long tradition of commissioning new work. The composers associated with the festival contributed a new song for the festival’s anniversary
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MET 1064 - Carole Cerasi - Manuel Blasco de Nebra (1750-1784) Sonatas & Pastorelas |
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Manuel Blasco de Nebra was one of the most talented musicians of 18th century Spain. Born in Seville to a family of musicians he was groomed by his father for the his own post of organist at the Cathedral before pre-deceasing his father. His compositions for keyboard have since his lifetime been overshadowed by the reputation of Domenico Scarlatti, who died when Blasco de Nebra was 7. The music was recognised as very high evince an original and quirky voice
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MET 1063 - Michael Finnissy - Gershwin |
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Michael Finnissy has been described as “one of the most original composers of our day” and his approach to Gershwin is a good example of his originality. These are not just transcriptions, they are re-workings of Gershwin’s ideas to suit scenarios and emotions remote from their original intention. The originals vividly evoke America in the 1920s and pre-war era. Through the spectrum of modernism,the melodies while still recognisable are seen “through a distorting lens”, tempos and harmony are exchanged, the blithe becomes tense, moods are reversed
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MET 1061 - Fiori Musicali with Pamela Thorby - Vivaldi Concertos |
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Vivaldi Concertos
Concerto La Pastorella in D forrecorder, oboe, violin, bassoon and continuo RV95
Concertoin G minor for recorder, oboe and bassoon RV103
Sonata in C for flute, violin, 'cello and continuoRV801
Concerto in G minor forrecorder, oboe, violin, bassoon and continuoRV105
Trio for lute, violin and continuo in C RV82
Sonata for recorder and bassoon in A minor RV86
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MET 1060 - Christopher Hogwood - The Secret Handel |
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The second in the Secret series of clavichord recitals
by Christopher Hogwood is devoted to Georg Frederic
Handel who began his musical life as a young boy by
spiriting a clavichord up to
his room unbeknownst to his father who
pooh-poohed music as a career! This 2
CD set in a slimline case again uses three
contemporary instruments and
Hogwood in a wonderful performance
reveals the secret musical world which
Handel created and writes an elegant note
to accompany his case.
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MET 1059 - Piers Hellawell - Inside Story |
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The Millenium BBC Promenade orchestral commission of Inside Story confirms Piers Hellawell’s posiiton of one of the new voices in Britain of stature. His orchestral works are paired with the String Quartet
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MET 1058 - Michael Finnissy - Etched With Bright Sunlight |
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Sunday Times Record of the Year 2002
“Finnissy’s abstruse style demands phenomenal
accuracy and musicianship from the player, and gets its here from the pianist Nicolas Hodges. His control of
the unbelievably elaborate, half-hour title piece is
astonishing.” Sunday Times
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MET 1057 - Music & Art - Music From the Time of Rembrant |
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A re-creation of Rembrandt’s musical world from the correspondence of his patron and friend Constantijn Huygens, the composer, diplomat and poet. This collection of domestic songs and music for virginals, and organ music from the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam was prepared for the Rembrandt’s Women exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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MET 1056 - Christopher Hogwood - The Secret Bach |
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The repertoire of the clavichord by the great composers has remained largely hidden from the concert-going public. Christopher Hogwood unlocks the music written for this instrument popular in its day before superseded by the pianoforte. The first of a series of new solo recordings by one of the repertoire’s great exponents. The series is also designed to show off a variety of clavichords in collections from around the world showing the diversity of the instruments. On this disc he plays on a Hass an Bodechtal and a Schmall instrument.
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MET 1055 - Carole Cerasi -J. S. Bach and the Möller Manuscript |
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This is the fourth solo recording by Gramophone
Award winner Carole Cerasi. Continuing her
adventurous programming on disc, she has chosen a
programme inspired by the Möller Manuscript, a
manuscript compiled by Johann Sebastian Bach's elder brother Johann Christoph, with whom Johann
Sebastian lived after the death of his parents in 1695.
The 'Möller' manuscript is one of the most precious
musical treasures from the lifetime of Johann
Sebastian Bach, not least because it is one of the few
sources of his early works that has a close connection
with the young composer. The manuscript is named
after one of its later owners, Johann Gottfried Möller, apupil of Bach's. The special strength of this collection of pieces, saved by the young Bach's intimate family
circle, is the consistently high musical quality of its
strikingly varied repertoire.
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MET 1053 - Thalia Myers - Spectrum 3 |
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25 contemporary works for solo piano performed by Thalia Myers
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MET 1052 - Music & Art - Titian, Venice and the Music of Love |
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This recording was created for the Titian exhibitions
which took place at the National Gallery in London
and the Prado in Madrid.
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MET 1051 - Music & Art - Music in the time of Vermeer |
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Constantijn Huygens and his musical
friends.
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MET 1050 - Robert Downland's Varietie of Lute Lessons |
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MET 1049 - Carole Cerasi - Thomas Tomkins, Barafostus Dreame |
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Music of exuberant virtuosity and profound inspiration from the last of the great English virginalists, Thomas Tomkins
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MET 1048 - Music and Art - Impression: French chamber music masterpieces |
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Impression: French Chamber Music Masterpieces
New recordings of two great masterpieces of French chamber music specially commissioned for the exhibition Impression: Painting Quickly in France 1860-1890 at the National Gallery, London, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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MET 1047 - Music & Art - Paris 1900 - 1968 |
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A selection of major musical landmarks from Paris to accompany the Royal Academy of Art exhibition Paris:Capital of the Arts 1900-1968. The impressionist masters, roiginal recordings from the Folies Bergéres and jazz of the Hot Club de France, the shocks of the Ballet Russes, the wit of Les Six, the exotic imports from the new world merge into a music-scape of the city.
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MET 1045 - Concordia - Knock'd on the Head |
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Music for viols by the cavalier composer.
CONCORDIA directed by Mark Levy
Consort Setts a6 in F, B flat and g minor
Lyra viol Trios in D and d minor
Catches Hark jolly lads; Come my lads; Whither go ye; The wise men were but seven
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MET 1044 - Christ Church Cathedral Choir - Remember Bethlehem |
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A collection of new popular carols for Christmas sung in the cathedral choral tradition. The simple 2000 year old story of the Nativity continues to inspire sublime music from the composers of our time. Here all the familiar strands, the animals in the stable, the kings, the shepherds, the cradle songs, the prophetic, the mystical, and the dancing and celebration are woven together in new colours for the new millennium.
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MET 1043 - Howard Goodall - Howard Goodall's Big Bangs |
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Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs is a series of five TV programmes, which was first broadcast from 12th March 2000 on Channel 4 in a prime time evening slot.
The Big Bangs are the five momentous “inventions” in music history, some you will have heard of, others you will need to watch the programmes or buy the CD to know why they are so important. The programmes though in a sort of chronological order reach forward and back across history and across the globe.
Location shooting took place in places as diverse as Shanghai to a gypsy village in Romania, from the molten lava of Mount Vesuvius to the burnt-out ruins of the Fenice opera house in Venice.
The soundtrack includes many new recordings made for the series.
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MET 1042 - Music and Art - Seeing Salvation 1000 of Sacred Music |
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This collection of music has been specially compiled to complement the millenial exhibition Seeing Salvation: The Image of Christ at the National Gallery, London, 26 February – 7 May 2000. It surveys a thousand years of music from the earliest Christian chant, through the richest polyphony of the renaissance, the classical age to our own time. It begins with the chant of St Dunstan, Archibishop of Canterbury and ends with the music commissioned by the BBC for the accompanying TV series Seeing Salvation by John Tavener, the world premiere recording of this new work.
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MET 1041 Music and Art - in Renaissance Florence |
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The songs and consort music which filled the households of the great Florentine families such as the Medici and the rumbustious and splendid sounds of the street processions, festival and carnivals crowd this CD giving a vivid musical account of life in Florence in the 1470s. Devised to accompany the exhibition Renaissance Florence:The Art of the 1470s held at the National Gallery, London 20 October 1999 - 16 January 2000
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MET 1040 - Howard Goodall - We Are the Burning Fire |
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The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford
Conductor Stephen Darlington
Treble solo Henry Bennett
Keyboards, synthesizers, samplers & electronic drum programming performed by Howard Goodall
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MET 1039 - Concordia - Royal Fantasies Vol 2 |
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GO FROM MY WINDOW ORLANDO GIBBONS
Music for Viols
Volume 2 of the complete works for viol
Two and six part music &
Consort songs
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MET 1038 - Music and Art - Music at the Court of Charles I |
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Compiled to complement the exhibition Orazio Gentileschi at the Court of Charles I held in London, Bilbao and Madrid in 1999 this collection is a broad introduction to the musical splendour and ambition of Charles I's court. It includes the work of Nicholas Lanier, the First Master of the King's Musick, who was reputed to be the lover of Artemisia Gentileschi, the daughter of the painter Orazio Gentileschi who was the Court Painter; William Lawes, the greatest English composer of the 17th century, who died valiantly in the Royalist cause at the siege of Chester; and contemporary settings of the poetry of John Donne by Corkine, Hilton and Sumarte.
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MET 1037 - Christ Church Cathederal Choir - Philippe del Monte |
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Missa Aspice Domine, Aspice Domine by Jachet of Mantua, O suavitas et dulcedo, Miserere mei, Domine, Pie Jesu, Virtus mea, O clementissime Domina Jesu, Clamavi de tribulatione mea, Factum est silentium. |
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Director Stephen Darlington |
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MET 1034 /1035 - Susan Sheppard - Bach Cello Suites |
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A new recording of Bach's masterpieces played on baroque cellos for his 250th anniversary. Susan Sheppard has over 25 years experience specialising in baroque music. She is principal cello and founder member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and continuo cellist for numerous baroque opera productions at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
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MET 1033 - Concordia - Royal Fantasies Vol 1 |
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The complete consort music of Orlando Gibbons
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MET 1032 - Carole Cerasi - C.P.E.Bach |
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Six Sonatas for harpsichord and fortepiano
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MET 1030 / 1031 Christ Church Cathedral Choir |
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Two festal masses from the Forrest-Heather Partbooks, compiled at the behest of Cardinal Wolsey for the Choir of his great foundation.
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MET 1029 - Piers Hellawell - Sound Carvings |
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A survey of the instrumental work of the Piers Hellawell the Hebridean and Belfast-based composer played by two dynamic ensembles at the forefront of contempory music performance. Hellawell's music has been influenced by two contrasting sources, Irish traditional music and Balinese Gamelan.
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Met 1028 - Adrian Williams - Images of a Mind
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New works for solo cello and for cello and piano by the English composer Adrian Williams (b. 1956)
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Met 1027 - Christopher Wilson & Paul Agnew - Hero and Leander |
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Weep no more my wearied eyes. Neither sighs nor tears. Stay silly heart. Hero's complaint to Leander. Come, thou glorious object of my sight. Amorosa pargoletta. Qual musico gentil. Do not expect to hear. Fire, fire. Mark how the blushful mom. No more shall meads be deck'd with flowers. Like hermit poor.
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MET 1026 - Carole Cerasi - The Complete Harpsichord Suites |
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Premier Livre de Piéces de Clavecin (1687)
Piéces de Clavecin qui peuvent se jouer sur le viollon (1707)
The harpsichord suites of the great female composer at the Court of the 'Sun'King Louis XIV.
Played on the Andreas Ruckers 1636 harpsichord in the Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands Park, Surrey.
A co-production with West Deutscher Rundfunk.
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MET 1025 - Christopher Wilson & Paul Agnew - Fantasia de mon Triste |
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Capirola Lutebook: Ricercare I; Padoana De tous biens pleine; Et in terra; Qui tollis, Milano: Ricercars Nos 9,12,34,84 and 88 Fantasias nos 28,31,33 and 36 Las ye m'y plains. De mon triste desplaisir, Spinacino: Three Recercares. Malor me bat. Adieau mes amours.
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MET 1024 - Fiori Musicali - Haydn's Nelson Mass |
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200th anniversary recording of Haydn's Nelson Mass. The news of Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile in 1978 reached Vienna shortly after Haydn had completed this commission for one of the royal princesses. The same year saw the publication of the first ever symphonies in Russia, the work of the Bohemian composer at Catherine the Great's court who styled himself M. le Baron de Wanczura
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MET 1023 - Concordia - Music For Mona Lisa |
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Anonymous: Dit le burguygnon, Pavana el bisson, Gagliarda la traditora, Rompeltier, Se mai per maraviglia, Hor oires un chanzon. Bruhier: Latura tu. Busnois: Je ne fay plus. Cara: Hor venduto la speranza. Compère Le grant désir. Coppini: Tanto è la donna mia. Dalza: Pavana, Salterello, Piva. Isaac: La morra. Japart: Amours, amours, amours. Josquin: A l’heure que je vous p.x. Tromboncino Hor che’l ciel e la terra, Vergine bella.
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MET 1022 - Olivier Chassain - Eventail |
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Masters of the Spanish Guitar 'I imagine the Hispanic composers who came to Paris, like a glorious fan with their works like fantails radiating from a centre' - Oliver Chassain
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MET 1021 - Olivier Chassain - Almost a Song |
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An anthology of lyric contemporary writing for the classical guitar.
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MET 1020 - Concordia - Crye |
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An exploration of the Elizabethan and Jacobean cult of melancholy as it was expressed in music for viols. Glyn Maxwell's modern poetry included in the booklet takes its inspiration from the music and narrates a story of loss, regret and disaster. Illustrated with woodcuts by Kathe Kollwitz.
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MET 1019 - Fiori Musicali |
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For her new violin version of Bach's D minor Concerto Kerstin Linder-Dewan has attempted to emulate the idiomatic figuration of Bach's presumed original concept. Her musical text serves the work well and this invigorating recording is particularly impressive for her relaxed virtuosity and articulated rhythmic playing, her skilful appreciation of the harmonic complexities and conceits of Bach's art and her supple view of the work overall. ....Zelenka's A minor Sinfonia, whose brilliant Vivaldian opening movement and Bohemian central Capriccio and final Menuetto's are eloquently performed, and whose sonorous bassoon-cello duet in the Aria da capriccio is a sheer delight. - The Strad June 1998
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MET 1017 - The Brindisi String Quartet - Schubert |
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Schubert: String Quartet No 14 in D minor D810 'Death & the Maiden' (1824), string Quartet No 15 in G major D887.
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MET 1016 - Sailsbury Cathedral Choir - An English Chorister's Songbook |
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A choristers selection of the highlights of a cathedral choir's year recorded in Salisbury Cathedral
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MET 1015 - The Orlando Consort - Passion |
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MET 1014 - Canterbury Cathederal Choir - Thomas Tallis |
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Thomas Tallis became a vicar-choral at Canterbury Cathedral in 1540 soon after it was refounded as a secular cathedral in the wake of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. The music on this recording has recently been identified from manuscripts in Peterhouse, Cambridge as that written by Tallis for performance in the cathedral in Henry VIII's reign.
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MET 1013 - I Fagiolini - All the King's Horses |
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A second disc of music from the Royal Courts of renaissance France, Italy, and Germany.
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MET 1012 - I Fagiolini - All the King's Men |
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Royal Music from the courts of renaissance Europe including works from England by Henry VIII, the low Countries, France and Spain.
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MET 1011 - Christopher Wilson & Paul Agnew - In Darkness Let Me Dwell |
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A MUSICALL BANQUET 1610 : Lady if you so spight me, In darknesse let me dwell
THE THIRD AND LAST BOOKE OF SONGS 1603: Lend your eares to my sorrow good people, What if I never speede, Flow not so fast ye fountaines, When Phoebus first did Daphne love, Weep you no more sad fountaines, Say love if ever thou didst finde, Time stands still, Behold a wonder heere, I must complaine, yet do enjoy
A PILGRIMES SOLACE 1612: Shall I strive with wordes to move, If that a Sinners sighes be Angels food, Love those beames that breede, Stay time a while thy fying, Thou mighty God Second part When Davids life by Saul Third part When the poore Griple
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MET 1010 - Christopher Wilson & Paul Agnew - Flow My Tears |
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A selection of lutesongs from The First Booke of Songs 1597, and The Second Booke of Songs 1600. Accompanied by a presentation book of the poetry and a selection of facsimiles of Dowland's original edition.
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MET 1009 - The Orlando Consort - John Dunstaple |
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John Dunstaple was one of the most celebrated composers of the medieval period. Tantalisingly little is known about him, and what little is known is tantalising. He served in the courts of the family of Henry V and two pieces here were performed in Canterbury Cathedral to celebrate Henry V’s victory at Agincourt. His epitaph in St Stephen’s Walbrook, the City of London, indicates that he was a polymath celebrating not only his gifts as a musician but also as an astronomer and mathematician.The booklet includes illustrations from the only known surviving Dunstaple autograph manuscript, an astronomical treatise in Emmanuel College library.
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MET 1008 - The Orlando Consort - Popes & Antipopes |
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Music for the Papal Courts of Avignon and Rome from 1342- 1433 the period of the Great Schism of the Western Church, the Councils of Pisa and of Constance.An A to Z (Anonymous- Zacharie)of medieval composers who wrote music for the Palace of the Popes in Avignon and the Vatican in Rome are represented.
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MET 1007 - The Brindisi String Quartet |
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Arnold Schoenberg: String Quartet N 2Op 10. Anton Webern: Langsamer Satz, Five Movements for String Quartet Op 5. Alban Berg: String Quartet Op 3.
"This is a quartet playing at its finest and also the finest rendition I've heard of Shoenenberg's most famous quartet". American Record Guide
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MET 1006 - Christopher Wilson & Paul Agnew - O Sweet Woods the Delight of Solitarienesse |
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Lovesongs & Sonnets of John Donne and Sir Philip Sidney.
The romantic poetry of the great Elizabeth poet Sir Philip Sidney and John Donne, poet, orator and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral London as it was set to music by their Elizebethan and Jacobean contemporaries.
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MET 1005 - The Brindisi String Quartet - Dave Matthews |
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David Matthews: String Quartet No 3 opus 18 (1977-1978), String Quartet No 6 opus 56 (1990-1991), Concertino for Oboe and String Quartet, The Flaying of Marsyas opus 42, A Little Threnody for Cor Anglais solo.
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MET 1004 - I Fagiolini - Insalata |
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Insalata a rich salad of music from Monteverdi to Sondheim typical of the iconoclastic vocal pyrotechnics I Fagiolini regularly serve up to its sell-out audiences
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MET 1003 - Canterbury Cathedral Choir - Gregorian Chant from Canterbury Cathedral |
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Four days after Christmas on 29th December 1170 Archbishop Thomas Becket was murderd in his Cathedral by knights of King Henry II. His feast day has been celebrated on that day for centuries with Gregorian Chant.
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MET 1002 - The Orlando Consort - Loyset Compere (c.1445 - 1518) |
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A mass for the Nativity, motets and secular songs for the courts of the Sforzas, the Bourbons and Charles VIII of France by this unknown genius of the Flemish Renaissance.
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MET 1001 - The Orlando Consort - Alleluia Nativitas |
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Music & Carols for Medieval Christmas from France & England.
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