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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Lieder (Songs) Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 12/Jun/2015 ] "Songs and performances are good company, each with an element of novelty" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2004 |
OSWALD VON WOLKENSTEIN
Songs of myself Andreas Scholl (Counter tenor) / Schield of Harmonies / Crawford Young [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "This is a winner...Scholl projects [Oswald's] texts magnificently, drawing on an inexhaustible range of colours and moods." Editor's Choice Gramophone Mgazine May 2010 |
KRIEGER / HAMMERSCHMID / HAGEN / ALBERT / GORNER
German Baroque Songs (Lieder Baroques Allemands) Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) with Markus Märkl, Karl Ernst Schröder & Alix Verzier [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "Scholl's voice is a marvel: secure in pitch, its sustaining power projects a feeling of ease that eludes many countertenors, who often sound merely like men who have mastered falsetto. If anything, Scholl has a slightly feminine cast, exemplified in... |
ANONYMOUS
La Bele Marie (Songs of the Virgin from 13th Century France) Anonymous 4 [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 12/Jun/2015 ] "Anonymous 4 cast a spell difficult to resist."-The Times, London |
Anonymous 4 (with Andrew Lawrence King, Irish harp, Baroque harp & psaltery)
Wolcum Yule: Celtic and British Songs and Carols [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 20/Mar/2006 ] “Sumptuous Christmas sounds” (San Francisco Chronicle, concert review) |
KURT WEILL
The Seven Deadly Sins / Songs Brigitte Fassbaender (soprano) / Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] "Fassbaender is one of the most intelligent vocalists around. She makes no attempt to do anything but sing the text with a maximum of interpretive nuance, and the result is a triumph. (…) A captivating performance." - CD Review |
BERLIOZ
La Mort d'Ophalie (Songs for chorus) Bruce Brewer (tenor) Jean-Philippe Courtis (baritone) Noel Lee (piano) / Choeur de chambre de l'Orchestre National de Lyon / Bernard Tatu [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Pure France - All the songs of Berlioz written for soloists, chorus and orchestra |
ANONYMOUS / BYRD / CUTTING / JOHNSON / MORLEY / etc
Shakespeare Songs Desmond Dupre-lute, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller-director [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] There can be no doubt that music played a considerable role in Shakespeare's plays, although very little of it has survived. |
Drew Minter, countertenor, Paul O'Dette, lute
Elizabethan Songs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Jul/2005 ] "Included here are songs that expound on the pains and pleasures of love, as well as more spiritual issues, in exquisite Elizabethan language… firm, attractive sound […] colorful, vibrant accompaniments." - The New York Times |
LASSUS
French Songs Ensemble Clement Janequin / Dominique Visse (director) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 14/Jul/2001 ] An extravagant jest by Orlando di Lasso. |
WILLIAM BYRD
Consort Songs Fretwork with Emma Kirkby (soprano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Apr/2005 ] "This is a varied well-chosen programme, beautifully sung and played. Kirkby and Fretwork complement each other both in style and timbre." (MusicWeb July 2006) |
