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Purcell - By beauteous softness (from Now does the glorious day appear, Z332)

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  • Echo

    Echo

    Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)

    Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 4th Nov 2022
    • Catalogue No: BIS2568
    • Label: BIS
    • Length: 63 minutes

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  • The Four Quarters

    The Four Quarters

    Solem Quartet

    This terrific, imaginative debut recording from the young British quartet is built around the eponymous 2011 work by Thomas Adès, which is interleaved with the group's own arrangements of works... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, September 2021 More…
    • Release Date: 17th Sep 2021
    • Catalogue No: ORC100172
    • Label: Orchid Classics
    • Length: 61 minutes

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  • Come Again Sweet Love

    Come Again Sweet Love

    Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Carolyn Sampson, Emma Kirkby (sopranos), Charles Daniels (tenor)

    This is deluxe casting, allowing combinations from unaccompanied lute songs to an a cappella duet, and lute solos to five-part madrigals...Taylor - with one of the loveliest countertenor voices... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 More…
    • Release Date: 4th Jul 2011
    • Catalogue No: 88697727222
    • Label: RCA
    • Length: 58 minutes

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  • Purcell: Complete Odes & Welcome Songs

    Special offer. Purcell: Complete Odes & Welcome Songs

    The King's Consort, New College Choir, Oxford, Robert King

    • Release Date: 1st Nov 2010
    • Catalogue No: CDS440318
    • Label: Hyperion
    • Series: Purcell Complete Edition
    • Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

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  • English Lute Songs

    English Lute Songs

    Robin Blaze (countertenor) & Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

    Can be recommended without reservation … the wonderful By beauteous softness, from Queen Mary’s Birthday Ode of 1689, given this performance, I could quite easily listen to for ever … there’s... — BBC Music Magazine More…
    • Release Date: 2nd Mar 2009
    • Catalogue No: CDH55249
    • Label: Helios
    • Length: 70 minutes

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  • Beauteous Softness

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    Tim Mead (countertenor), La Nuova Musica, David Bates

    Mead’s theatrical experience comes through most clearly in his dramatic rendering of some of the songs from the odes…The stage songs are often presented with an affecting fluidity, as in William... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 24th Mar 2023
    • Catalogue No: PTC5187047
    • Label: Pentatone
    • Length: 69 minutes

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  • Spirit of the Baroque

    Spirit of the Baroque

    Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Barbara Jane Gilby (soloist), Lucy Carrig (soloist), Geoffrey Lancaster (soloist), Ivan James (soloist), Owen Davies (soloist), Susanna Lazaroff (soloist), Sue-Ellen Paulsen (soloist)

    • Release Date: 1st Jan 1997
    • Catalogue No: ABC4566672
    • Label: ABC Classics
    • Length: 72 minutes

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  • A Purcell Collection

    A Purcell Collection

    VOCES8 & Les Inventions

    every number here has something particularly arresting within it, all supported by persuasive and committed singing, and playing of intense charm. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 7th Apr 2014
    • Catalogue No: SIGCD375
    • Label: Signum
    • Length: 70 minutes

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  • The James Bowman Collection

    Special offer. The James Bowman Collection

    James Bowman (countertenor)

    The King's Consort, Robert King

    • Catalogue No: KING3
    • Label: Hyperion
    • Length: 78 minutes

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  • Fairest Isle - The Timeless Music of Purcell

    Fairest Isle - The Timeless Music of Purcell

    Sara Macliver (soprano), Marshall McGuire (harp), Fiona Campbell (mezzo-soprano), Paul McMahon (tenor), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano), Genevieve Lacey (recorder), Linda Kent (harpsichord), Stephen Bennett (bass), Sirius Ensemble, John Champ (piano)

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Orchestra...

    • Release Date: 16th Oct 2006
    • Catalogue No: ABC4765329
    • Label: ABC Classics
    • Series: Timeless Music Series
    • Length: 64 minutes

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