I was in Creekside Vinyl today and heard this - Simon (the shop owner) was playing a cd -

Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Messe de Minuit pour Nöel

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and this is what i bought in the shop -

George Braith - Extension

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Love Blue Note!

This one is for pigshitpoet

These are my recommended Vivaldi albums -


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Baroque opera time with Vivaldo and mentioned by Wire mag back in 1991 -

Antonio Vivaldi - Orlando furioso

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And the synopsis -

An Animated Guide to Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso

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As previously mentioned, some Bach -

J.S. Bach - Concerto For 2 Harpsichords, Strings, And Continuo In C Minor, BWV 1060 - 1. Allegro

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J.S. Bach - Concerto For 3 Harpsichords, Strings, And Continuo No.1 In D Minor, BWV 1063

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Time for more music -

Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas Z. 626: Act III, Thy hand, Belinda / When I am laid in earth

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Guillaume Dufay - Ave Regina celorum

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John Dowland - I Saw My Ladye Weepe

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One of the most subtle and beautiful of all of John Dowland's songs. It expresses the paradox of the beauty that can lie in sadness ( Read more... )

Back in 1991 Wire did an article on baroque music concentrating on Vivaldi and Telemann. Telemann in his time was more popular than J.S.Bach but seems to be forgotten until the period-instrument movement began. Chandos Records have done a whole series of recordings of his music including the one posted here.

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Oh, here is the other great find for fifty pence.

Jan Dismas Zelinka - Missa Paschalis, ZWV 7: Benedictus

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Jan Dismas Zelinka - Missa Paschalis, ZWV 7: Gloria. Gloria in excelsis Deo

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Jan Dismas Zelinka - Litaniae Omnium Sanctorum, ZWV 153: Pater de coelis

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More baroque bifurcations - and a couple of moderns. For sallymn.

Henry Purcell - Sound The Trumpet

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Here we have James Bowman (at right) - the charismatic doyen of modern countertenors - alongside Michael Chance, one of Bowman's many protégés. In this recording, they sing Purcell's famous duet in a manner that says it all about vocal skill, ( Read more... )

In the October issue of Wire magazine, 1995, Biba Kopf did an article on countertenors due to a film from France released as a dramatic story on the baroque castrato Farinelli. So here for your delectation from the list of CD recommendations are some modern-day countertenors -

Pergolesi - Salve Regina in C Minor: I. Salve Regina (Michael Chance)

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Another divergent collection of tunes -

Henry Purcell - St Cecilia's Day Ode, 'Welcome to all the pleasures' Z339

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Henry Purcell: Welcome to All the Pleasures, Z339, an ode for St. Cecilia's day (1683). Andrew Parrott conducting the Taverner Consort and Players. Emily van Evera - soprano, John Mark Ainsley, Charles Daniels - tenor, David Thomas ( Read more... )