Classical Kirkby - Orpheus and Corinna

"These are delightful songs, superbly sung with delicate, tactful accompaniments played on the theorbo-lute by Anthony Rooley" Rod Bliss (Sunday Times)

"Kirkby goes back to her scholarly roots with truely delightful results." (Gramophone March 2003)

Classical Kirkby. Anybody the slightest bit interested in "early music" will be aware of Emma Kirkby's unparalleled excellence as a singer. Indeed her performing skills have been a model for a younger generation. But Emma Kirkby's talents do not stop with singing. If one is looking for that Renaissance figure who seems to know just about everything about just about everything, look no further. Emma Kirkby's talents seem only to be limited by her own reticence. When she was elected President of England's august Classical Society she chose to replace the usual informed lecture on some arcane subject by performing a programme of English songs dealing with classical themes or based on classical poems. With Anthony Rooley accompanying on the theorbo-lute she has now recorded the programme to the delight of everybody interested in song or English poetry or how the classics fared in England or ... These are splendid songs that provide Emma Kirkby with just the sort of interpretational and communicative challenges that she relishes. Her delight in interpreting them shines through, making the listener feel quite at home among the classical references. Anyone who has heard Emma Kirkby will want this CD and anyone who has managed not to hear her will be overwhelmed. This is a disc that will be treasured equally by aficionados and beginnerst