Suggested Listening
Music to listen to before you emigrate to a desert island
For any singer or instrumentalist listening to music is an essential aid to performance interpretation and style. Music also enriches our lives, particularly in difficult times.
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Beethoven
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Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone - John Farmer
By The King's Singers
Added by Tony Craven on 19/10/2021 (ID: 196)
Ave Verum Corpus - William Byrd
Another great performance by The Sixteen
Added by Tony Craven on 19/10/2021 (ID: 195)
Ave Verum - Mozart
Performed by Les Art Flossisants
Added by Tony Craven on 19/10/2021 (ID: 194)
Locus Iste - Anton Bruckner
A performance of one of our favourite pieces by The Sixteen
Added by Tony Craven on 19/10/2021 (ID: 193)
Counting Music - Chris Lawry
A quirky concert item. Really quite cleaver and inventive.
Added by SteveB (Admin) on 11/04/2021 (ID: 190)
O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht BWV118
John Eliot Gardiner. English Baroque Soloists. Monteverdi Choir
Added by SteveB (Admin) on 31/03/2021 (ID: 189)
Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 Op. 19 (1903) - Hugo Alfven
You may recognise parts of this masterpiece. Really well orchestrated.
Added by SteveB (Admin) on 17/03/2021 (ID: 188)
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied - Bach
Another version of Singet by Bachchor Stockholm and Concentus musicus Wien using the usual treble and bass clefs.
Added by SteveB (Admin) on 02/03/2021 (ID: 187)
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied - Bach
Mottetto. BWV 225. Pure joy and I urge you to put the headphones on and escape for 12 minutes. Note the use of soprano, alto and tenor clefs for pitching middle C on the stave, so useful for the clarity and relative simplicity in the score and pitching many vocal parts across a wide range. Sadly we don't use these clefs much in vocal music today.
Added by SteveB (Admin) on 27/02/2021 (ID: 186)
Jerusalem - Parry
Words by William Blake. Music by C.H.H.Parry. Orchestrated by Edward Elgar.
Added by SteveB (Admin) on 06/02/2021 (ID: 161)