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Classical Kirkby - Orpheus & Corinna / Kirkby, Et Al
Release Date: 10/29/2002
Label: Bis Catalog #: 1435 Spars Code: DDD
Composer: John Blow, Thomas Campion, Maurice Greene, John Weldon, ...
Performer: Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
Number of Discs: 1
Recorded in: Stereo
EAN: 0675754543525
Works on This Recording
1. O Venus, daughter of the mighty Jove by John Blow
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1700; England
Language: English
2. When to her lute Corrina sings by Thomas Campion
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano)
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1601; England
Language: English
3. Sappho to the goddess of Beauty by John Blow
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
4. Orpheus with his lute by Maurice Greene
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
5. Stop, O ye waves by John Weldon
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
6. Ayres and Dialogues: Legousin hai gunaikes (Anacreon) by Henry Lawes
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
Written: 1655
7. Ayres and Dialogues: Away, Away, Anacreon by Henry Lawes
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
Written: 1655
8. Ayres and Dialogues: Anacreon's Ode, call'd The Lute (orig Greek) by Henry Lawes
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
Written: 1655
9. Ayres and Dialogues: Anacreon's Ode (English version) by Henry Lawes
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
Written: 1655
10. Sappho to the Goddess of Love by John Blow
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
11. Horace's Odes: Diffugere nives (Odes IV, 7) by John Wilson
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
12. Corinna now you'r young and gay by John Eccles
Performer: Anthony Rooley (Lute), Emma Kirkby (Soprano)
13. Hero's complaint to Leander by Nicholas Lanier
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
14. So beauty on the waters stood by Alfonso II Ferrabosco
Performer: Anthony Rooley (Lute), Emma Kirkby (Soprano)
15. Horace's Odes: Integer vitae (Odes I, 22) by John Wilson
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
16. Orpheus's Hymn by Henry Lawes
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
17. Orpheus and Euridice by William Boyce
Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century; England
Notes and Editorial Reviews
Recomendado, CD Compact;
"Goldberg 5 Stars", Goldberg Web
"An object lesson for all aspiring singers." Goldberg Magazine;
"Essential listening for all admirers of English song." Classical Guitar Magazine;
"An exceptionally interesting arrival." American Record Guide;
"Für jeden humanistisch Intressierten ein Muss." Fono Forum;
"A delightful programme ... not just 'classical Kirkby' but 'classic' too." Gramophone
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CLASSICAL KIRKBY–English Songs on Classical Themes
Review by: David Vernier - ClassicsToday
Artistic Quality: 6
Sound Quality: 6
For years soprano Emma Kirkby has proven one of the more enduring stars of the early music scene, and she has been an acclaimed specialist in the song repertoire featured here, appearing in some fine recordings with lutenist Anthony Rooley for Hyperion. Unfortunately, in this new effort for BIS, Kirkby's endurance shows signs of wear: her borderline shrillness and weirdly aggressive approach to these 16th-18th century songs and cantatas, unaided by the bright, close, resonant acoustic, simply tires the ear after the first three or four tracks. There's not only a tedious sameness to the musical selections, but Kirkby's vocalism has taken on a hard, harsh quality that feels more like an assault than a performance. The liner notes, by Rooley and Kirkby, go to great lengths to explain the rationale for the program and its “provocative” title–settings of poetry by the classicists or songs whose texts involve “classical” themes, originally performed as a recital for the “august” Classical Association while Kirkby served as its president. While there's certainly nothing wrong with that, there is something bothersome about performances and a recording perspective that call so much attention to the singer that we can't enjoy the music. If you're interested in English song repertoire from this period, I suggest you go back to Kirkby's eminently listenable and beautifully sung Hyperion recordings and pretend you never heard of this failed project.
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Emma Kirkby is a Classicist, stylistically and academically. Invited to be president of the Classical Association, an international organisation devoted to the study of ancient Greece and Rome, Kirkby (who read Classics at Oxford), was faced with giving an inaugural lecture. She asked if she might sing instead. This is the recital she and Anthony Rooley, an eminent editor and arranger as well as virtuoso lutenist, gave, the fruit of tireless research in the British Library into obscure, mostly 17th-century English settings of Classical texts. Even at 53, Kirkby's soprano is steadfast, shining and pure, a quintessential early-music voice of bright and brilliant clarity. Her exemplary diction is always intelligible and precise: listen to the way she negotiates the tongue-twisting, ringingly ornamented lines in John Blow's enchanting cantata ‘Sappho to the Goddess of Love'. She is unfazed by dead languages, singing two settings by Henry Lawes of poems by Anacreon in ancient Greek, and two by John Wilson of Horatian odes in Latin. And her narrative and dramatic skills are as compelling as her wit, never more evident than in William Boyce's pair of comic, vulgar songs ‘When Orpheus went down...' and its feisty response, ‘the words by a lady', which turns the conventional reading of the myth on its head.
PERFORMANCE: 4 Stars
SOUND: 4 Stars
BBC Music Magazine
Claire Wrathall
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Rezensionen
M. Hengelbrock in FonoForum 3 / 03: "Diese Aufnahme ist für jeden humanistisch Interessierten ein Muss."
