Since you are interested in Odes for the Feast Day of Saint Cecilia (Incl Hail! bright Cecilia) / Te Deum / Funeral for Queen Mary, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: Lute Songs (with Britten-Nocturnal) Mark Padmore (tenor) Elisabeth Kenny (lute) Craig Ogden (guitar) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Jan/2008 ] "A terrific disc which demonstrates how flexibly Dowland's line can be treated in expressing the nuances of the texts." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Feb 2008) |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin, Francois - Lecons de Tanabres pour le Mercredy (plus works by Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell) Concerto Vocale, Rena Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 24/Jun/2004 ] 'There is perhaps nothing in all of 17th century French music that has the power to move the listener as deeply as the Leçons de Ténèbres by François Couperin.' RENE JACOBS |
PURCELL
King Arthur (complete) Deller Consort / The King's Musick, Alfred Deller - director [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 20/May/2011 ] It was with Henry Purcell, the greatest of 17th century English composers that the semi-opera, that specifically English genre, reached its apogee. |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Complete Opera) Lynne Dawson (soprano) Gerald Finley (baritone) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Rene Jacobs (director) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "Lynne Dawson is powerfully expressive as teh doomed heroine, with strong support from rosemary Joshua as Belinda and Gerald Finley as Aeneas" (Five Stars BBC Music June 2006) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Before Life & after Sonnets of J. Donne op.35 / Winter Words op.52 / etc Mark Padmore (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "The evocative performance by Padmore and Vignoles captures that sense of longing particularly well." Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - September 2009 |
SAINT-SAENS
Sonata no.1 / Suite op.16 / etc Pascal Amoyel (violin) Emmanuelle Bertrand (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Written when he was only 27 years old, the Suite for cello remained one of Saint-Saëns’s favourite children all his life. Ten years later, in 1872, he discovered a new passion for the instrument, which led to the monumental First Sonata. ‘Nowhere... |