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Andrew Manze (violin), Ashley Solomon (recorder), Baroque Brass of London (brass ensemble), Daniel Yeadon (violin), David Miller (guitar), David Miller (archlute), David Miller (theorbo), Jan Schlapp (viola), Jane Rogers (viola)
The remarkable Country Negro Jam Session assembles home recordings of southwest Lousiana-based blues singers collected during the late 1950s and 1960s by musicologist Dr. Harry Oster. Fourteen cuts by country fiddler Butch Cage make up the guts of the album, but the real highlights are the grim performances by Robert Pete Williams, who was serving ...
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Christopher Hill (treble), David Dunnett (organ), David Miller (theorbo), Donald Sweeney (bass), Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo), Fred Jacobs (theorbo), Gavin McCormick (treble), Helen Gough (violin), Henrietta Wayne (violin), Jean Paterson (violin)
Where did the big, imposing, public quality of Handel's English choral music come from? Listening to the music of John Blow (1649-1708) uncovers part of the answer. Blow, organist at the Chapel Royal and later the impressively titled "Composer of the Chapel Royal," was the preeminent church composer of the English restoration. His anthems, 14 of ...
Arhoolie, as is made plain in this 15-song sampler of their gospel catalog, does not favor slick modern spiritual music. (Or, as they say straight-up in the brief liner note, "The selections on this disc...are not by trendy, popular massed choirs.") Much of this is in fact gospel-blues: spiritually oriented numbers by major bluesmen Big Joe ...
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Anthony Robson (oboe), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor), David Miller (theorbo), David Watkin (cello), David Woodcock (concert comedienne), David Woodcock (violin), Deborah York (soprano), Helen Gough (bass viol)
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Accademia Strumentale Italiana, Verona, Aradia Baroque Ensemble, Carys-Anne Lane (soprano), David Miller (lute), Glen Wilson (harpsichord), Jacob Heringman (lute), James David Christie (organ), Knut Johannesen (organ), Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
With its Art and Music series, Naxos has come up with a classy looking way of recycling earlier items from its catalog. The discs in the series don't quite deliver what they promise, but this one does better than most. The title Rembrandt: Music of His Time is accurate as far as it goes; the art-historical essay on Rembrandt by Hugh Griffith is ...
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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor), David Miller (theorbo), James Bowman (alto), James Gilchrist (tenor), Julia Bishop (violin), Katherine Sharman (cello), King's Consort, Laurence Cummings (organ), Michael George (bass)
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Academy of Ancient Music, Alastair Ross (harpsichord), Amanda MacNamara (bass), Andrew Manze (violin), Catherine Weiss (violin), David Miller (archlute), Helen Gough (cello), Iona Davies (violin), Jane Booth (chalumeau), Joanna Parker (violin)
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