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Track(s) taken from CDA67150

Ye winged inhabitants of the grove

composer
Eleven Sacred Songs and Two Choruses in Score, London, c1805
author of text

Patrick McCarthy (tenor), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)
Recording details: September 1999
St Mary the Virgin, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: September 2000
Total duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds

Cover artwork: The Strand, looking east towards St Mary-le-Strand (1824). Caleb Robert Stanley (1795-1868)
The Museum of London
 

Reviews

‘A fascinating collection … wonderfully atmospheric’ (Gramophone)

‘Music both major and relatively elementary, but all of it has charm’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘An issue of great historical interest … performances (lovely solo and choral singing) are excellent: so is Peter Holman's scholarship’ (MusicWeb International)

‘A jewel of a disc’ (Amazon.co.uk)
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