György Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy (2006) more music like this

performed by Alfons Kontarsky (piano), Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Douglas Boyd (oboe), Ensemble InterContemporain, Gerd Zacher (organ), Gianluca Cascioli (piano), Hagen Quartett, Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Jacques Zoon (flute), James Sommerville (horn)
composed by György Ligeti

Deutsche Grammophon's budget-priced, four-CD collection of all the works by György Ligeti in its catalog has many things to commend it, beginning with the title. Clear or Cloudy is a profoundly astute description of the composer's career, encompassing both the great sound clouds of his micropolyphonic work of the 1960s, such as Atmosphères, ...

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Puccini: La Rondine (1983) more music like this

performed by Alan Byers (vocals), Bruce Ogsten (vocals), David Beavan (vocals), David Rendall (vocals), Elizabeth Gale (vocals), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Leo Nucci (baritone), Lillian Watson (vocals), Linda Finnie (vocals)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

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The Holly and the Ivy (2006) more music like this

performed by Alfred Deller (counter tenor), April Cantelo (soprano), Deller Consort, Desmond Dupre (lute), Desmond Dupre (guitar), Eileen Poulter (soprano), Gerald English (tenor), Mary Thomas (soprano), Maurice Bevan (baritone), Stanley Taylor (recorder)
composed by Christmas Traditional, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Xaver Gruber, Geoffrey Shaw, George Frederick Handel, Henry John Gauntlett, Johann Georg Ebeling, John Francis Wade, John Henry Hopkins, Jr., Richard Storrs Willis

The recordings of pioneer countertenor Alfred Deller, really the first "star" of early music, have held up well even as fashions in countertenor singing have changed. This two-disc set of Christmas music is not exactly forthright about the fact that the recordings were made in 1956 and 1960 (the information is way in the back of booklet, not on ...

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Peter Maxwell Davies: Miss Donnithorne's Maggot; Eight Songs for a Mad King (1987) more music like this

performed by Alan Hacker (clarinet), David Campbell (clarinet), Duncan Druce (violin), Fires of London, Gregory Knowles (percussion), Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello), Jonathan Williams (cello), Judith Pearce (flute), Julius Eastman (baritone), Mary Thomas (mezzo-soprano)
composed by Peter Maxwell Davies

If one work can be said to have secured Peter Maxwell Davies' international reputation, it would have to be his iconoclastic Eight Songs for a Mad King, a sensation when first performed in 1969 with actor Roy Hart and the Pierrot Players. This recording features Julius Eastman in Hart's role, with the ensemble that performed at the premiere ...

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Purcell: The Masque in Dioclesian / Dido and Aeneas (2004) more music like this

performed by Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Ellen Dales (soprano), Harold Lester (harpsichord), Helen Watts (alto), Honor Sheppard (soprano), Mary Thomas (soprano), Maurice Bevan (bass), Maurice Bevan (baritone), Max Worthley (tenor), Philip Todd (tenor)
composed by Henry Purcell

The Deller Consort was one of the top period performance ensembles when there were relatively few players in the game. Artemis Classics have combined 1965 and 1964 Vanguard performances of Henry Purcell's The Masque in Dioclesian and Dido and Aeneas for the first time into a single, no-frills two-disc package. These are still serviceable ...

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John Casken: Golem (1991) more music like this

performed by Adrian Clarke (baritone), Christopher Robson (counter tenor), John Hall (bass baritone), Mary Thomas (mezzo-soprano), Patricia Rozario (soprano), Paul Harrhy (tenor), Paul Wilson (tenor), Richard Morris (baritone), Music Projects London
composed by John Casken

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Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof) [Decca] (1996) more music like this

performed by Andy Cole (vocals), Barbara Moore (vocals), Eddie Lester (vocals), James Tullet (vocals), Margaret Eaves (vocals), Margaret Savage (vocals), Mary Thomas (vocals), Patricia Whitmore (vocals), Robert Bowman (vocals), Robert Merrill (baritone)
composed by Jerry Bock

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Purcell: Come Ye Sons Of Art (1999) more music like this

performed by Alfred Deller (counter tenor), April Cantelo (soprano), Deller Consort, Eileen McLoughlin (soprano), Gerald English (tenor), Honor Sheppard (soprano), Mark Deller (counter tenor), Mary Thomas (soprano), Maurice Bevan (bass), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
composed by Henry Purcell

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Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik more music like this

performed by Benjamin Luxon (baritone), Ian Partridge (tenor), London Sinfonietta, Mary Thomas (mezzo-soprano), Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano), Michael Rippon (bass), Nona Liddell (violin), Philip Langridge (tenor), David Atherton (conductor)
composed by Kurt Weill

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The English Madrigal School (1994) more music like this

performed by Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Deller Consort, Eileen Poulter (soprano), Gerald English (tenor), Mary Thomas (soprano), Maurice Bevan (baritone), Walter Berry (bass), Wilfred Brown (tenor)
composed by Anonymous, Anonymous, English, John Bartlet, John Bennet, John Sheppard, John Ward, John Wilbye, Noël Coward, Richard Edwards, Robert (i) Johnson, Robert (ii) Johnson, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Vautor, Thomas Weelkes

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Renaissance & Baroque Realisations (1991) more music like this

performed by Alexander Baillie (cello), Beverley Davison (violin), Beverley Davison (viola), David Campbell (clarinet), Fires of London, Gregory Knowles (percussion), Mary Thomas (soprano), Philippa Davies (piccolo), Philippa Davies (flute), Philippa Davies (flute)
composed by Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Dunstable, Peter Maxwell Davies

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Gloria! (1994) more music like this

performed by Christopher Keyte (bass), Edgar Fleet (tenor), Jean Allister (contralto), Mary Thomas (soprano)
composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria

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Casken: Golem (2009) more music like this

performed by Adrian Clarke (baritone), Christopher Robson (counter tenor), John Hall (bass baritone), Mary Thomas (mezzo-soprano), Patricia Rozario (soprano), Paul Harrhy (tenor), Paul Wilson (tenor), Richard Morris (baritone), Music Projects London
composed by John Casken

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