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 enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
Rachmaninov
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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)