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CDs and DVDs featuring the composer John Blow

CATALOGUE NR: 8550718  (barcode: 4891030507180)
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.75

TITLE: Early English Organ Music volume 1
TRACKS: Includes works by Blow / Boyce / Croft / Farnaby / Gibbons / Purcell / Walond.
ARTISTS: Joseph Payne      

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CATALOGUE NR: REGCD368  (barcode: 0802561036821)
RECORD LABEL: Regent
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.99
RELEASE DATE: 10-Oct-2011

COMPOSER: Edward Naylor  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: A Year At York
TRACKS: Advent - Vox dicentis: clama (Edward Naylor). Conception of the BVM - Audi coelum (Paul Comeau). Christmas - There is no rose (John Joubert). Epiphany - The Magi (Andrew Carter). Candlemas - Nunc Dimittis in A In memoriam Lionel Dakers (Richard Shephard). Caedmon of Whitby - Caedmon of Whitby's First Hymn (Philip Moore). Lent - Salvator mundi (John Blow). Annunciation - Magnificat in G (Charles V Stanford). Passiontide - The Lamentation as sung in York Minster (Edward Bairstow). Easter - Alleluia laudate pueri dominum (Francis Jackson). St Alcuin of York - A Prayer of Alcuin of York (Humphey Clucas). Ascension - Ascendit Deus (Peter Philips). Pentecost - If ye love me (Thomas Tallis). Trinity - I saw the Lord (John Stainer). Corpus Christi - O sacrum convivium (George Haynes). St William of York - O Wilhelme pastor bone (John Taverner). Nativity of the BVM - Ave Virgo sanctissima (Howard Skempton). Michaelmas - Factum est silentium (Richard Dering). All Saints - Give us the wings of faith (Ernest Bullock). All Souls - Justorum animae (Gabriel Jackson).
CONDUCTOR: Robert Sharpe
ARTISTS: Choir of York Minster   David Pipe    

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CATALOGUE NR: DCD34039  (barcode: 0801918340390)
RECORD LABEL: Delphian
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 13-Feb-2006

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Instruments from the Raymond Russell Collection II
TRACKS: Double-manual harpsichord Robert Falkener London 1773 - Suite in D minor HWV437 (Handel). Bentside spinet attrib. John Player London c.1705 - Five pieces from Musick's Handmaid : March / Minuet / A new Ground / A new Scotch Tune / A new Irish Tune (Purcell). Bentside spinet John Harrison London 1757 - Three pieces from Robert Bremner's The Harpsichord or Spinnet Miscellany : Fy gar rub her o'er with Straw / The Flowers of the Forrest Listen / Maggy Lauder. Enharmonic virginal attrib. Francesco Poggio Florence c.1620 - Toccata settima - Toccate e corenti d'intavolatura d'organo e cimbalo (Michelangelo Rossi). Chamber organ anonymous London c.1680 - A sad Pavan for these distracted times (Thomas Tomkins). Voluntary in C (John Blow). Fretted clavichord Christian Gottlob Hubert Ansbach 1784 - Five pieces from Musikalische Nebenstunden : Marche / Menuet / Adagio / Andante / Marche (Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach). Square piano Andrew Rochead Edinburgh c.1815 - Deux Polonaises melancoliques : No.1 in C minor / No.2 in A minor (Franz Xaver Mozart). Double-manual harpsichord Jean Goermans / Pascal Taskin Paris 1764/83-84 - Les Tendres Sentimens / L'Affligee / L'Enjouee (Armand-Louis Couperin). Single-manual harpsichord Johann Adolph Hass Hamburg 1764 - Four movements from Partita in E major 'November' : Praeludium / Menuet / Gavotte / Chaconne (Christoph Graupner).
ARTISTS: John Kitchen      

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CATALOGUE NR: WHLIVE0038  (barcode: 5065000924393)
RECORD LABEL: Wigmore Hall Live
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 02-Aug-2010

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Nine German Arias (Handel). Jubilate Domino (Buxtehude). Gentle Shepherds you that know The charms of tuneful breath - A Pastoral Elegy on the Death of Mr John Playford. What a sad sad Fate is mine? (Purcell). As on his deathbed gasping Strephon lay - A Pastoral Elegy on the Earl of Rochester who died the 26th July 1680 (Blow). Introduction to encore: An Evening Hymn (Purcell).
ARTISTS: Iestyn Davies   Ensemble Guadagni    

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CATALOGUE NR: CDH55359  (barcode: 0034571153599)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion Helios
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.75
RELEASE DATE: 28-Jun-2010

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Music for St Pauls
TRACKS: Te Deum for the Peace of Utrecht 7 July 1713 HWV278 : We praise thee O God / To thee all angels cry aloud / To thee Cherubin and Seraphin / The glorious company of the apostles / When thou took’st upon thee / We believe that thou shalt come / Day by day we magnify thee / And we worship thy name / Vouchsafe O Lord / O Lord in thee have I trusted. Jubilate for the Peace of Utrecht 7 July 1713 HWV279 : O be joyful in the Lord / Be ye sure that the Lord he is God / O go your way into his gates / For the Lord is gracious / Glory be to the Father (Handel). I was glad when they said unto me : I was glad when they said unto me / One thing have I desired of the Lord / They shall prosper that love thee / The king shall rejoice in thy strength / As for his enemies (Blow). Lord thou hast been our refuge : Lord thou hast been our refuge / Our fathers hoped in thee / Yea like as a father pitieth his own children / Remember O Lord what is come upon us / The eyes of all wait upon thee O Lord / Blessed be the name of the Lord (Boyce).
CONDUCTOR: Peter Holman
ARTISTS: Parley of Instruments   St Paul's Cathedral Choir   Sophie Daneman   Julia Gooding

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CATALOGUE NR: CACD88002
RECORD LABEL: Cala
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Music from the Courts of Europe - London
TRACKS: Zadok the Priest. As with Rosy Steps the Morn Advancing (Handel). O Sing unto the Lord. My Beloved Spake (Purcell). Sing unto the Lord Oh ye Saints (Blow). A Hymn to God the Father (Humfrey). Under the Greenwood Tree. Come Away Death. Where the Bee Sucks (Arne).
CONDUCTOR: Robert King
ARTISTS: Tom Seligman   James Bowman   King's Consort  

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CATALOGUE NR: BISCD1435  (barcode: 7318590014356)
RECORD LABEL: BIS
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 04-Nov-2002

COMPOSER: Henry Lawes  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Orpheus and Corinna
TRACKS: Legousin hai gunaikes. Away away Anacreon 'Anacreon's Ode Englished'. Anacreon's Ode call'd The Lute - original Greek. Anacreon's Ode call'd The Lute -' English'd to be sung by a Basse alone'. Orpheus' Hymn to God. At dead low ebb of night 'A Tale out of Anacreon' (Lawes). Sappho to the Goddess of Love. Sappho to the Goddess of Beauty (Blow). Diffugere nives - Horace Odes IV 7. Integer vitae - Horace Odes I 22 (Wilson). When to her lute Corinna sings (Campion). Corinna now you'r young and gay (Eccles). Hero and Leander - Nor com'st thou yet (Lanier). So beautie on the waters stood (Ferrabosco II). Orpheus with his lute (Greene). Stop O ye waves (Weldon). When Orpheus went down to the Regions below. An answer to Orpheus and Euridice - the Words by a Lady (Boyce).
ARTISTS: Emma Kirkby   Anthony Rooley    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 17th Century Songs - Feb-2003 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: KTC1211  (barcode: 8711801100029)
RECORD LABEL: Etcetera
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77

COMPOSER: Henry Lawes  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Charming Strephon
TRACKS: That man is truly blest (Lawes). Come my Daphne come away (Lawes). Too late Alas I must confess(Samuel Ackeroyde). Sheperd in faith I cannot stay (Nicholas Laniere). Let England and Ireland and Scotland rejoyce (Anon). As Amoret with Phillis sat (Nicholas Staggins). I cannot change as others do (Charles Sandford). Injurious charme of my vanquisht heartr (Louis Grabu). What is't you lack what would you buy? (Anon). The appointed hour of promis'd bliss (John Weldon). Whilst on your neck no rival boy (John Blow). I promis'd Sylvia to be true (Gottfried Finger). Tell my Strephon that I die (John Blow). Where are thou God of dreams! (Giovanni Draghi). As Cloris full of harmless thought (James Hart). As Cloris full of harmless thought (Anon). Insulting beauty you misspend (Anon). Grieve no more haples Strephon (Anon). All my past life is mine no more (John Blow). As on his death bed gasping Strephon lay (John Blow). In the subtraction of ma years (Lawes).
ARTISTS: Emma Kirkby   Andrew King   David Thomas   Consort of Musicke

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: a cCelebration of the life and times of the 2nd Earl of Rochester

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CATALOGUE NR: SFZM0207  (barcode: 5050521008301)
RECORD LABEL: SFZ Music
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 29-Jun-2009

COMPOSER: Henry Purcell  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: John Blow & His Pupils
TRACKS: Tracks include - Voluntary on the Old Hundredth (Purcell). Voluntary in D Minor. Cornet Voluntary in G. Praise to our God proclaim (Blow). An Evening Hymn (Clarke). Let my mouth be filled with praise (Daniel Purcell). Funeral Anthem (Richardson).
ARTISTS: Timothy Roberts   Julia Gooding   Claudia Sanabras   Richard Savage

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: the Renatus Harris Organ of St Botolph's Aldgate

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CATALOGUE NR: NI5454  (barcode: 0710357545429)
RECORD LABEL: Nimbus
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95

COMPOSER: Henry Purcell  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Hear O Heav'ns
TRACKS: Chapel Royal Anthems by Purcell / Blow / Locke / Humfrey.
CONDUCTOR: Stephen Darlington
ARTISTS: Christ Church Cathedral Choir Oxford      

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CATALOGUE NR: 5453422  (barcode: 0724354534225)
RECORD LABEL: Virgin
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.25
RELEASE DATE: 07-Feb-2000

COMPOSER: Henry Purcell  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell
TRACKS: Sweetness of Nature (Purcell). Sonata in A (Blow). Here let my life (Purcell). Ground in D (Blow). Music for a while (Blow). Fugue (Blow). In vain the am' rous flute - Hail Bright Cecilia (Purcell). Prelude (Blow). Almand (Blow). Gavot (Blow). Mortlake Ground (Blow). An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell (Blow).
ARTISTS: Gerard Lesne   Steve Dugardin   Philippe Pierlot   La Canzona

- Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA66253  (barcode: 0034571162539)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50

COMPOSER: Henry Purcell  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Countertenor Duets
TRACKS: Sound the trumpet. In vain the am'rous flute. Sing, sing ye druids. The Queen's Epicedium. O solitude. No, resistance is but vain. Hark how the songsters. O dives custos (Elegy on the death of Queen Mary) (Purcell) Ode on the death of Mr Henry Purcell. Ah, heav'n, what is't I hear? (Blow).
CONDUCTOR: Robert King
ARTISTS: King's Consort   James Bowman   Michael Chance  

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'Robert King's spontaneous style is infectious, with the orchestral comments engagingly animated'

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CATALOGUE NR: MC194  (barcode: 0851950001940)
RECORD LABEL: Musical Concepts
FORMAT: 6 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 23.50

COMPOSER: Henry Purcell  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Music of Purcell
TRACKS: CD1 Homage to Henry Purcell - Fantasia upon a Ground in D minor for 3 violins and continuo Z731 / Oedipus Z583 / I love and I must Z382 / The Comical History of Don Quixote Z578 Part I Let the Dreadful Engines / The Faerie Queen Z629 - Epithalamium 'Thrice happy lovers' / Song: If music be the food of love - 1st version 1692 Z379A / The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation 'Tell Me Some Pitying Angel' Z186 / Not All My Torments Z400 / Upon a Quiet Conscience 'Close Thine Eyes' Z184 / King Arthur Z628 - Venus's Song 'Fairest Isle all isles excelling' / Pausanias Z585 - Sweeter than roses / The Fatal Hour Comes Apace Z421 / Ode on Queen Mary's Birthday Z321 - Crown the Altar / The Indian Queen Z630 - I attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly / Bonduca Z574 - Bonduca's Song 'Oh! lead me to some peaceful gloom' / Dioclesian Z627 - What Shall I Do to Show All Much I Love Her? / The Comical History of Don Quixote Z578 Part III From rosy bow'r. CD2 Music of Purcell - The Faerie Queen Z629 - Secrecie's Song / The Faerie Queen Z629 - Mystery's Song / Cantata 'If ever I more riches did desire' Z544 - Here let my life / Ode on St Cecilia's Day 'Welcome to all the pleasures' Z339 - Here the Deities approve / Dioclesian Z627 - Since from my dear Astrea's sight / The Faerie Queen Z629 - The Plaint / Ten Sonatas in Four Parts : Sonata No.9 in F - Golden Sonata Z810 / Musick's Hand-made Part II : Music Lessons 1-6 - Song Tune in C ZT694 / Con Spirito Z647 / March in C Z648 / New Minuet in D Minor ZT689 / Minuet in A Minor Z649 / Minuet in A Minor Z650 / Musick's Hand-made Part II : Music Lessons 7-12 - A New Scotch Tune in G Z655 / A New Ground in E Minor ZT682 / A New Irish Tune Z646 / Rigadoon in C Z653 / Sefauchi's Farewell in D Minor Z656 / Minuet in D Minor ZT688 / Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Continuo Z780 / Suite in D for Harpsichord Z667. CD3 Dido and Aeneas Z626. CD4 Music for Saint Cecilia's Day - Hail! Bright Cecilia Z328 / Ode on St Cecilia's Day 'Welcome to all the pleasures' Z339. CD5 The Masque in Dioclesian - Dioclesian Z627 Act V) : Call the Nymphs and the Fauns from woods / Let the Graces and Pleasures repair / Come come away no delay / Behold O mighty'st of gods / Paspe passepied - Instrumental / Oh the sweet delights of love / Let monarchs fight for power and fame / Make room for the great God / I'm here with my jolly crew / Dance of Bacchanals - Instrumental / Still I'm wishing stil desiring / Can Drusilla give no more? / Canaries - Instrumental / Tell me why my charming fair / Dance - Instrumental / All our days and our nights / Dance - Instrumental / Triumph victorious love. Instrumental Music for the Play : Act I: First Music / Act I: First Act Tune or Hornpipe / Act I: Instrumental Interlude / Act I: Dance of the Furies / Act II: Second Act Tune / Act III: The Chair Dance / Act III: Third Act Tune / Act III: Instrumental Interlude / Act IV: Butterfly Dance / Act V: Country Dance. CD6 Come ye sons of art Z323. Rejoice in the Lord Alway 'The Bell Anthem' Z49. My beloved spake Z23 (Purcell). Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell (John Blow).
ORCHESTRA: Kalmar Chamber Orchestra of London and Concentus Musicus Wien
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tippett and Nikolaus Harnoncourt
ARTISTS: Alfred Deller   Deller Consort   George Malcolm   John Whitworth

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: volume 2 of the Vanguard Alfred Deller Edition - includes CD-ROM with all original details & LP covers

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CATALOGUE NR: 3951442  (barcode: 0094639514427)
RECORD LABEL: Virgin
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 17-Sep-2007

COMPOSER: Henry Purcell  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Divine Hymns
TRACKS: Jehovah quam multi sunt (Henry Purcell). What art thou (William Croft). Lord what is man lost man (Henry Purcell). Hosanna to the highest (Henry Purcell). Tell me some pitying angel tell (Henry Purcell). Since God so tender a regard (Henry Purcell). In the midst of Life (Henry Purcell). Peaceful is he and most secure (John Blow). Lord! I have sinned (Pelham Humfrey). O all ye people clap your hands (Henry Purcell). In guilty night (Henry Purcell). The night is come (Henry Purcell). Close thine eyes (Henry Purcell). Wilt thou forgive that sin (Pelham Humfrey). Now that the Sun (Henry Purcell). Salvator mundi (John Blow).
CONDUCTOR: William Christie
ARTISTS: Les Arts Florissants   Paul Agnew   Thomas Michael Allen   Hannah Morrison

- Sep-2007 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: PRCD592
RECORD LABEL: Priory
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95

COMPOSER: Hiram Bullock  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis volume 14
TRACKS: settings by Bullock / Blow / Rose / Orr / Greene / Wood / Child / Cruft / Wills / Bairstow.
CONDUCTOR: Paul Trepte
ARTISTS: Ely Cathedral Choir   David Price    

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CATALOGUE NR: FES6941792
RECORD LABEL: Festivo
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 30-Sep-2001

COMPOSER: Jan Sweelinck  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Toccatas
TRACKS: works by Sweelinck / Blow / Frescobaldi / Krieger / Bach / Gigout / Widor / Boellmann / Ameller / Barie / Bouvard / Giroud / Dupre.
ARTISTS: Maurice Clerc      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: organ of the Cathedral St Benigne Dijon

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA66646  (barcode: 0034571166469)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50

COMPOSER: John Blow
TITLE: Songs and Keyboard Music
TRACKS: No more the dear, lovely, nymph's no more. The self-banish'd. Lovely Selina, innocent and free. Prelude in G. O turn not those fine eyes away. Morlake Ground. Fairest work of happy Nature. Suites Nos 1, 3. Flavia grown old. Ground in G minor. Oh! that mine eyes would melt into a flood. Verse in G minor. O mighty God, who sit'st on high. Ground in C. Sabina has a thousand charms. Of all the torments. No, Lesbia, you ask in vain (The Queen's Epicedium)
ARTISTS: John Mark Ainsley   Timothy Roberts   Paula Chateauneuf  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Full of interest, rich in its varied pleasures and in the high standard of recording and performance (Gramophone)

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CATALOGUE NR: OXCD98  (barcode: 5060055562026)
RECORD LABEL: Oxrecs
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 13.25
RELEASE DATE: 12-Jul-2004

COMPOSER: John Blow  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: By Purling Streams
TRACKS: Suite No.4 in C (Blow). Cantata: Fuori di sua Capanna (Bononcini). If music be the food of love (Purcell). Sweeter than Roses (Purcell). Prelude for Solo Recorder (Hotteterre). Air de M de Bousset (Hotteterre). Tunes from the Bird Fancyer’s Delight. Cantata: ‘Celladon' (Croft). Greensleeves to a Ground. Amour cruel Amour (Charpentier). Enfin de nos Bergers (Charpentier). Le Rossignol en Amour Le Rossignol Vainqeur (Couperin). Suite No.1 in G major (Purcell). Cantata: ‘Nel dolce dell’ oblio' (Handel).
ARTISTS: Borromini Ensemble      

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CATALOGUE NR: SACDA67286  (barcode: 0034571572864)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: Hybrid 2 SACD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 01-Oct-2001

COMPOSER: John Blow  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: The Coronation of King George II
TRACKS: Fanfare & Drum Processional. God spake sometime in visions. Behold O God our defender (Blow). O Lord grant the King a long life (Child). Come Holy Ghost (Farmer). Te Deum - Second Service (Gibbons). A Grand Intrumental Procession. Let thy hand be strengthen. Zadok the Priest. My heart is inditing. Trumpet Fanfare. The King shall rejoice (Handel). I was glad when they said unto me (Purcell). O God the Father of Heaven. Fanfare and Drum Processional (Tallis).
CONDUCTOR: Robert King
ARTISTS: King's Consort      

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA67286  (barcode: 0034571172866)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 01-Oct-2001

COMPOSER: John Blow  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: The Coronation of King George II
TRACKS: Fanfare & Drum Processional. God spake sometime in visions. Behold O God our defender (Blow). O Lord grant the King a long life (Child). Come Holy Ghost (Farmer). Te Deum - Second Service (Gibbons). A Grand Intrumental Procession. Let thy hand be strengthen. Zadok the Priest. My heart is inditing. Trumpet Fanfare. The King shall rejoice (Handel). I was glad when they said unto me (Purcell). O God the Father of Heaven. Fanfare and Drum Processional (Tallis).
CONDUCTOR: Robert King
ARTISTS: King's Consort      

- Dec-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A recreation of the 1727 Coronation which captures the atmosphere of the occasion with great skill. There is some magnificent music to be discovered.' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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