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2. Robert Parsons: First Great Service; Responds for the Dead (2007)
by Amy Wood (soprano), Catherine Backhouse (soprano), Christopher Wardle (alto), Greg Hallam (bass), Matthew Venner (alto), Oliver-John Ruthven (cantor), Robin Bailey (tenor), Simon Whiteley (bass), William Balkwill (cantor), William Balkwill (tenor)
Robert Parsons is something of a forgotten man of English Renaissance music, and annotator and conductor Barnaby Smith discusses in the booklet a ... More
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3. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (2012)
by Magnificat, Philip Cave (conductor)
The popular image of William Byrd hiding coded messages to his fellow Catholics in his music tends to obscure the fact that a good deal of music in ... More
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5. Four Temperaments: Byrd, Ferrabosco, Parsons, Tallis (2005)
by Asako Morikawa (bass viol), Asako Morikawa (tenor violin), Emilia Benjamin (bass viol), Phantasm
Four Temperaments is the second disc for Avie by the splendid English viol quartet Phantasm led by expatriate American Laurence Dreyfus; the first, a ... More
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11. 16th Century Music for Viols
by Fretwork, Rose Consort of Viols
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12. Tune Thy Musicke to Thy Hart (2012)
by Benedict Hymas (tenor), Emilia Benjamin (viol), Fretwork, Stile Antico
So strong is the perceived distinction between public sacred works and private secular ones during the Renaissance that the pieces here have been ... More
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14. Masters of the English Renaissance (2010)
by Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford (choir, chorus)
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, not even fully identified on the cover of this rather rudimentary-looking release, has a 500-year ... More
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15. Waytes: English Music for a Renaissance Band
by Daphna Mor (recorder), Daphna Mor (percussion), Piffaro
The Philadelphia-based early music ensemble Piffaro, which has been around since 1982, has recorded a variety of CDs of Renaissance instrumental ... More
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17. Miserere (2013)
by Peter Stevens (organ), William Gaunt (baritone), Westminster Cathedral Choir (choir, chorus)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral is a working group that sings for services at that center of modern British Catholicism. Although it has the ... More
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18. In Nomine (1987)
by Fretwork
For music in the key of doleful, try this Amon Ra disc called In Nomine by the English ensemble Fretwork. Featuring entirely sixteenth century ... More
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19. The Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal (2002)
by Benjamin Bakker (counter tenor), Diapente Viol Consort, Siebe Henstra (organ), The Gents, Peter Dijkstra (conductor)
Perhaps it's an example of a characteristically Dutch sense of humor to have a group called the Gents performing music by the Gentlemen of the Chapel ... More
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23. Three, Four and Twenty Lutes (1985)
by Andrew King (tenor), Bill Badley (mandora), David Miller (lute), David Miller (bass lute), David Parsons (lute), Emily van Evera (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (bandora), Jakob Lindberg (lute), Mary Nichols (alto), Michael Fields (guitar)
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