classical music: Andrew Parrott

classical music: Andrew Parrott

classical music:

Andrew Parrott

The Best Carols in the World...Ever!

Gareth Morrell, Simon Vaughan, ...

EMI Classics, 2005

Title makes a big claim, but it absolutely delivers...
This album provides 2.5 hours of excellent carols, from excellent choirs and soloists, and with great sound. I was worried that a compilation this large, and with such an extravagent title, would be B-side offerings, but that's not the case at all. This isn't an ...

Ultimate Classical Christmas Album of All Time

Ultimate Classical Christmas Record of All Time

Sony, 2002

Breathtakingly beautiful!
Over and over we played "Die Menge der Engel" - - it is stunningly beautiful! The loftiness of the voices, wonderful. We loved the boys/children's choruses on many of the other pieces on the album. Duets by Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavorati - - magnifico! It ...

Bach: Magnificat; Easter Oratorio

Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Parrott, ...

EMI Classics, 2000

The Extreme End of the Minimalist Spectrum: The Purity of Bach
Andrew Parrott conducts the Taverner Consort and Players is a very affordable set of discs that allow everyone to experience the 'non-choral' choral Bach. Instead of the usual chorus (even the pared down choruses of 16 - 30 members the way most 'authentic' ...

The Emma Kirkby Collection

Claudio Monteverdi, George Frideric Handel, ...

Hyperion UK, 1993

There is no such thing as too much Emma Kirkby
The only defect in this disk is that it isn't a three or four disk set. Some people don't appreciate her beautiful voice and I feel sorry for them. I first heard her voice live in a concert here in Ann Arbor in December of 1980 and she stunned me. The memory of her ...

Funeral Music

Elisabeth Graf, Marcos Fink, ...

EMI Classics, 2005

Beautiful
I know, you think funeral music, what? But, these are beautiful classical pieces with a more somber tone. I can listen to it all day. It's a two disc set, and even includes Agnus Dei, which is AKA the vocal rendition of Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.

Carol Album: Seven Centuries of Christmas

Jeremy White, Anonymous, ...

EMI Records / Capitol, 1990

fresh and witty
If you've never strayed into the Early Music racks, start here! And if you have 30" of Christmas CDs in your collection and half of them are Early Music and traditional, you're still going to love this! No muddy, pretentious, over-orchestrated stuff here. Just ...

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610/Venetian Vespers

Claudio Monteverdi, Andrew Parrott, ...

EMI Classics, 2000

Let's Compare and Share!
Claudio Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610 is a monument that straddles the transition from the musical values of the late renaissance and the early baroque like the Colossus of Rhodes, incorporating hugely different elements, from antiphonal chant to ...

Feather on the Breath of God

Hildegard of Bingen, Doreen Muskett, ...

Hyperion UK, 1993

Luminous
Landmark recording of the early Kirkby glorying in this beautiful music. Ears that can do East and West may like to sample 'Shruti' by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - a similarly evocative and remarkable recording.

Vivaldi: Gloria/Magnificat - Andrew Parrott, Taverner Choir &
Gregorian Chant, Antonio Vivaldi, ...

Virgin Classics, 2006

Gabrieli · Monteverdi · Vivaldi - Venetian Church Music / Taverner Consort, Choir & Players · Andrew Parrott

Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, ...

EMI Classics, 2001

exceptional tone quality
When I purchased this recording, I had not yet had the pleasure of owning an Andrew Parrott/Taverner Consort recording. I was so impressed! Andrew really excercises an understanding of this genre, an understanding that I haven't often seen. In particular I was quite ...

The Promise of Ages : A Christmas Collection

Benjamin Britten, Gregorian Chant, ...

Sony, 1998

Beautiful Harmonies and Vocalizations
Like another reviewer, I am thrilled at Lo! He Comes, as well as with the unfamiliar setting for Hark the Herald Angels Sing and the beautiful Sing We the Virgin Mary. If you love beautiful vocalizations, especially rare soprano-alto harmonizations, this is the album ...

Handel: Messiah

George Frideric Handel

Virgin Classics, 2002

A wonderfully clear and powerful performance - joyful!
In December of 1980 I was part of a performance of Messiah for Handel conference here in Ann Arbor. Scholars came from all over the world to present papers on this work and we performed the piece with a very small chamber orchestra, soloists, and a chorus of about 24 ...

Bach: St. John Passion; Mass in B Minor; Easter Oratorio; Ascension Oratorio

Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Parrott, ...

EMI Classics, 2002

One-voice-per-part in all its glory
Pick up this set. When I saw the ... price on these gems, I immediately ordered it. Andrew Parrott is a wonderful conductor who subscribes to the theory that Bach intended his choral music to be sung with one voice on a part. Quite a contrast to many recordings out ...

The Most Relaxing Vivaldi Album in the World... Ever!
Meyrick Alexander, Lionel Handy, ...

Angel Records, 2006

Vivaldi: Adagios

Antonio Vivaldi, Alan Curtis, ...

Virgin Classics, 2007

Intriguing Italian Baroque Music
Antonio Vivaldi [1678-1741] is one of the towering figues of the Italian Baroque movement occuring in the arts in that era. Vivaldi composed opera, choral music for masses and secular works for small orchestral performances. He is mockingly famous for writing endless ...