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Release Date: Wednesday 16 May 2007
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"The singers are ideal for the repertoire, unaffected voices with the mutual rapport of lay-clerks - as two of them have been. Rodrigo del Pozo has a colourful but easy high-tenor voice, Nicholas Perfect a remarkable resonance at the bottom of his range." BBC Music Magazine, July 2007 *****
"Charivari Agréable [trans. 'pleasant tumult'] has carved something of a niche for itself in imaginative and well-thought-out programming. Its work is the fruit of both scholarly research and charismatic musicianship, a combination that puts it at the forefront of period-instrument ensembles" BBC Music Magazine
Charivari Agréable present an imaginative new disc themed around their home town of Oxford. They are joined by a formidable line-up of singers including Rodrigo del Pozo, Simon Beston and Nicholas Perfect, to present a programme of 17th Century domestic devotional anthems and psalms by some of the greatest British composers of all time.
William Lawes:
'Oxford' Psalm settings
John Blow:
As on Euphrates' shady banks
Henry Purcell:
Blessed is he that considereth the poor
Matthew Locke:
In the beginning, O Lord
Thomas Tomkins:
Out of the deep
Giles Farnaby:
Divisions on His Rest