Emma Kirkby The Complete Recitals [12 CD];

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44pp booklet featuring tracklists, recordings information, rare photographs and an essay by Lindsay Kemp

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This 12CD collection brings together Emma Kirkby s complete L'Oiseau-Lyre recitals in a single set. The world s most popular period-instrument soprano, Kirkby s pure, crystalline sound defined how vocal music of the baroque and earlier eras should sound for a whole generation or more.

Accompanied in the main by Anthony Rooley, the set features works by Purcell, Handel, Bach and Mozart as well as rarely recorded works by Edwards, Campion, Dowland, Morley, Ferrabosco and many more.

Lindsay Kemp writes: Even today, nearly half a century after performing styles in music of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods underwent a major upheaval thanks to what has become known as the early music movement , there are few alumni of that revolution (some conductors excepted) who could be considered stars recognised in the wider musical world. That Emma Kirkby is one, and that she has maintained that status without
compromise to the style and principles of music-making with which she started out, is testimony not just to the distinctive pure colouring of her voice, but to a steady artistic integrity, personal modesty and generosity that have made her one of the most professionally respected and well-loved figures in the business.

Tracklisting
[1] The Lady Musick Elizabethan Songs
[Edwards, Campion, Dowland, Morley, etc.]
53.03 [DSLO 559 / 425 8992]

[2] Pastoral Dialogues
[Corkine, Dowland, Johnson, Lawes, D India, etc.]
57.23 [DSLO 575 / 480 2143]

[3] Amorous Dialogues
[Bartlett, Ferrabosco, Morley, Lawes, D India, Monteverdi, etc.]
52.55 [DSLO 587 / 480 2144]

[4] Duetti da Camera
[D India, Frescobaldi, Grandi, Monteverdi, Sabbatini, etc.]
51.28 [DSLO 558 / 436 6122]

[5] Purcell: Songs and airs
45.31 [DSDL 713 / 417 123-2]

[6] Bach: Coffee Cantata
52.03 [417 621-2]

[7] Bach Wedding Cantatas
64.00 [455 972-2]

[8] Emma Kirkby sings Mrs Arne
[Handel, Lampe, Arne
71.27 [436 1322]

[9] Handel: Italian Cantatas
54.16 [414 4732]

[10] Handel: Italian Cantatas
41.22 [DSLO 580 + additions NEW COMPILATION

[11] Mozart: Esultate, jubilate, etc.
47.12 [411 8322]

[12] Mozart: Arias
54.44 [425 8352]