Love’s Fire and Passion – Late Cantatas Vol. 2

DKP(CD)9119

DOMENICO SCARLATTI (1685 – 1757)
FIORI MUSICALI on authentic instruments
KATE ECKERSLEY soprano
PENELOPE RAPSON director

1-4. Scritte con falso inganno 10:02
5–8. Tinte a note di sangue 12:47
9–15. O qual meco Nice cangiata 19:38
16–18. Dir vorrei 15:29

Total:        58:21

Cypresses Biblical Songs

DKP(CD)9115

Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)

1-18.CYPŘIŠE (CYPRESSES) B:11 37:09
(original version – 1865)
19-28. BIBLICKÉ PÍSNÉ  (BIBLICAL SONGS) 23:52
(B. 185) Op.99

Total:        61:11

PHILIP LANGRIDGE tenor
RADOSLAV KVAPIL piano

Song Cycles by Vaughan Williams and Butterworth

DKP(CD)9113

GEORGE BUTTERWORTH (1885 – 1916)
1 – 6.      Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ 12:56

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872 – 1958)
7 – 12. The House of Life 27:14
13. Linden Lea 3:00
14. In the Spring 3:00
15 – 23. Songs of Travel 23:48

Total duration:        70:34

BRIAN RAYNER COOK baritone
CLIFFORD BENSON piano

Charles Ives – Songs Volume 2

DKP(CD)9112

HENRY HERFORD baritone
ROBIN BOWMAN piano

1. In Summer Fields 3:08
2. In the Alley 2:06
3. Religion 1:19
4. Luck and Work 0:32
5. The Cage 0:47
6. Grantchester 3:03
7. Premonitions 2:29
8. Nov. 2 1920 3:14
9. Duty 0:38
10. From ‘Lincoln, the Great Commoner’ 2:16
11. Thoreau 2:58
12. Walt Whitman 0:40
13. The Greatest Man 1:21
14. So may it be! (The Rainbow) 1:25
15. Walking 1:59
16. August 2:21
17. September 0:37
18. December 0:59
19. Autumn 3:11
20. Afterglow 2:31
21. From the ‘Incantation’ 1:24
22. Spring Song 1:35
23. At Sea 1:33
24. Tarrant Moss 0:25
25. Waltz 1:42
26. Romamzo di Central Park 2:35
27. Canon 1:00
28. Mirage 1:01
29. Maple Leaves 0:53
30. Charlie Rutlage 2:54
31. The Camp-Meeting 5:52

Total duration:        61:00

Henry Purcell – In Praise of St. Cecilia

Fiori Musicali Choir and Orchestra

DKP(CD)9109

In Praise of St. Cecilia

HENRY PURCELL (1659 – 1695)
1-13. Hail! Bright Cecilia (1692) 53:31

ANTONIO CALDARA  (1670 – 1736)
14 – 20. Laudate pueri Dominum (1720) 17:30

Total:        71:10
On authentic instruments
Penelope Rapson – director
Kate Eckersley – countertenor
Richard Wyn-Roberts – countertenor
Andrew Tuss – tenor
Peter Harvey – bass
Simon Birchall – bass

Love’s Sweet Torment

DKP(CD)9095

Late Cantatas by DOMENICO SCARLATTI (1685-1757)

FIORI MUSICALI on authentic instruments
KATE ECKERSLEY soprano
PENELOPE RAPSON director

1-5. Pur nel sonno almen tal’ora 17:58
6-8. Se fedele tu m’adori 12:28
9-12. Piangete occhi dolenti 12 :38
13-16. Che vidi, oh! ciel che vidi! 14 :19

Total:        57 :50