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Love Bade Me Welcome: Songs and Poetry from the Renaissance

Love Bade Me Welcome: Songs and Poetry from the Renaissance (2005) more music like this

performed by Daniel Taylor (counter tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (harp), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Frances Kelly (harp), James Bowman (counter tenor), Mark Levy (gamba), Ralph Fiennes, Theatre of Early Music
composed by Abraham Cowley, Anonymous, English, Ben Jonson, Francis Quarles, George Herbert, John Dowland, John Playford, Robert (ii) Johnson, Robert Jones, Thomas Campion, Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare

This collection of post-Elizabethan melancholy risks being overly ambitious, for it tries to pursue two innovative goals. First, it mixes songs and poetry of the period; it is not the only recording to have done so, but it is likely to be the first one that attendees at the Stratford Festival, say, run across on the rack. Second, it tries to ...

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Bloed

Bloed (2000) more music like this

performed by Hilliard Ensemble, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Rutger van Leyden (conductor)
composed by Cornelis de Bondt, Unspecified, William Shakespeare

On the list of the most adventurous contemporary music projects one certainly should find this collaboration among music-makers who have been consistently innovative on their own and who have pulled out all the stops here. Bloed (Blood) is the brainchild of Dutch composer Cornelis de Bondt. It is what young people would call a mashup, joining ...

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Apparition: Henry Purcell and George Crumb

Apparition: Henry Purcell and George Crumb (2007) more music like this

performed by Christine Schäfer (soprano), Eric Schneider (piano), Sebastian Carewe (speech/speaker/speaking part)
composed by Christine Schäfer / Eric Schneider, George Crumb, Henry Purcell, William Shakespeare

Christine Schäfer is an artist with a unique sense of style, which comes through unmistakably on Apparition. First is the cover of Schäfer in a white gown standing with a dinosaur skeleton winding around her like a miniature roller coaster would. Then there's the fact that she and pianist Eric Schneider mix songs by Henry Purcell and George Crumb, ...

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Ein Sommernachtstraum

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Ein Sommernachtstraum (2006) more music like this

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