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Compact Disc CDA66227

£13.99

Titles selected and arranged by LUCY HAYWARD
Recording Engineers
ANTONY HOWELL
TONY FAULKNER
Producers
MARTIN COMPTON
MORTEN WINDING
Design
TERRY SHANNON
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMLXXXVII

Duration: 64'20
DDD
Front photograph LUCY SCLATER

The Emma Kirkby Collection

EMMA KIRKBY soprano
with various artists and ensembles
Contents:

  1. CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Confitebor tibi, Domine (Psalm 110) [5'53]
  2. THOMAS CAMPION Now hath Flora robbed her bowers [2'48]
  3. HENRY PURCELL Stript of their green our groves appear [3'50]
  4. CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Voglio di vita uscir [4'13]
  5. SIGISMONDO D'INDIA Piangono al pianger mio [3'56]
  6. JOHN DOWLAND Flow not so fast, ye fountains [2'45]
  7. GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT Foy porter [3'19]
  8. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN Columba aspexit [5'12]
  9. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Sheep may safely graze [4'25]
  10. JOHN DOWLAND Time stands still [4'04]
  11. SIGISMONDO D'INDIA Diana (Questo dardo, quest' arco) [2'44]
  12. CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Quel sguardo sdegnosetto [2'08]
  13. CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Maladetto sia l'aspetto [0'57]
  14. HENRY LAWES The Lark (Swift thro' the yielding air) [2'00]
  15. THOMAS CAMPION Move now with measured sound [3'03]
  16. GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Sharp thorns despising [2'16]
  17. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Sich üben im Lieben (Wedding Cantata) [4'53]
  18. MICHAEL EAST You meaner beauties of the night [4'34]
Sleeve Notes

'Recommended with enthusiasm' (Fanfare, USA)

'An attractive release, not only for the almost unfailing charm with which Kirkby imbues the music but also as a record of how her voice has blossomed over a period of some two decades' (BBC Music Magazine)

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