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1. Alessandro Striggio: Mass in 40 Parts (2011)
performed by Clare Wilkinson (alto), David Miller (lute), Erin Headley (lironi), Lynda Sayce (lute), Matthew Long (tenor), I Fagiolini (choir, chorus), I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
composed by Alessandro Striggio, Gregorian Chant, Thomas Tallis, Vincenzo Galilei
Writing in The Guardian , conductor and musicologist Robert Hollingworth finds a terrific metaphor that confronts head-on the elephant in the living ... More
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2. Dialogues of Sorrow (2010)
performed by Amy Moore (soprano), Christopher Watson (tenor), Clare Wilkinson (soprano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Gabriel Crouch (bass), Gallicantus, Mark Chambers (counter tenor), Matthew Long (tenor), Gabriel Crouch (conductor)
composed by Giovanni Coprario, John Ward, Richard Dering, Robert Ramsey, Thomas Ford, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Vautor, Thomas Weelkes, William Cranford
Here's a superb collection of English madrigals and other pieces from the golden age of English music, all (or almost all) composed on a single ... More
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3. Great Operatic Arias
performed by Anne-Marie Gibbons (mezzo-soprano), Deborah Miles-Johnson (mezzo-soprano), Emma Brain-Gabbott (soprano), Gareth Hancock (harpsichord), Gerald Finley (baritone), Kathryn Jenkin (soprano), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Matthew Long (tenor)
composed by Carl Maria von Weber, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, John Adams, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Rodgers, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
For his installment in Chandos' Opera in English series of solo recitals, Gerald Finley has chosen a thoroughly eclectic program that is a testimony ... More
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4. Hubert Parry: Songs of Farewell (2011)
performed by Clare Wilkinson (alto), Gabriel Crouch (bass), Matthew Long (tenor), Tenebrae, William Gaunt (bass), Nigel Short (conductor)
composed by Arthur Sullivan, Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells, Hubert Parry, John Tavener, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Richard Rodney Bennett, William H. Harris
The title of Hubert Parry's 1915 choral song cycle, Songs of Farewell, aptly sums up the theme and tone of this a cappella album featuring the ... More
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5. Britten: Albert Herring (2003)
performed by Ann Taylor (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Gillett (tenor), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Finley (baritone), Josephine Barstow (soprano), Matthew Long (vocals), Peter Savidge (baritone), Robert Lloyd (baritone)
composed by Benjamin Britten
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6. Monteverdi: Vespers
performed by Alex Ashworth (baritone), Alison Bury (violin), David Clegg (counter tenor), Eamonn Dougan (baritone), Eamonn Dougan (cantor), Grace Davidson (soprano), Kim Porter (mezzo-soprano), Kirsty Hopkins (soprano), Matthew Long (tenor), Meg Bragle (mezzo-soprano)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Battista Fontana
Recorded live in 2010 for the 400th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers of the Blessed Virgin, 1610, this is a fitting tribute to one of the ... More
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