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The Artistry of Emma Kirkby

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD173435

Barcode: 7318591734352

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 4

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 2nd March 2009

Artists

Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
Anthony Rooley (lute)
Agnes Mellon (soprano)
John Abberger (oboe)
Thomas Georgi (viola d’amore)
Lucas Harris (lute)
Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello)
London Baroque
Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra
Theatre of Early Music

Artists

About

Emma Kirkby has enchanted audiences with her almost supernaturally clear and agile soprano ever since she first appeared on the Early Music scene in the 1970s. As the art of historically informed performance has become more and more widely appreciated, so has her style of singing, to the extent that she was included in a listing of ‘the 20 greatest sopranos ever’ made by the BBC Music Magazine in 2007.

Released on the occasion of her 60th birthday, this collection celebrates her collaboration with BIS and includes highly acclaimed performances of works from her repertoire such as Handel solo cantatas (with London Baroque) and Dowland songs (with Anthony Rooley and Jakob Lindberg) as well as pieces by less familiar composers, such as Ariosti and Amodei, de Lalande and Schimmelpfennig. This collection provides an opportunity to sample the work of an exceptional singer in all its variety.

The accompanying booklet includes a personal appreciation of the performer by music critic Brian Robins, as well as the texts – in the original languages with English translations where applicable – of all the works featured.

Includes: Secular and sacred works by Handel, J.S. Bach, Böddecker, Couperin, De Lalande, Scarlatti, Ariosti and Amodei as well as Lute Songs by Dowland, Robert Johnson, John Blow, Schütz, D’India and Boësset.

Contents:
∙ George Frideric Handel:
- Gloria Salve Regina for soprano, two violins and basso continuo
- O Qualis De Coelo Sonus for soprano, two violins and basso continuo
- Coelestis Dum Spirat Aura for soprano, two violins and basso continuo
- Laudate Pueri (Psalm 112) for soprano, two violins and basso continuo
∙ Philipp Friedrich Boddecker:
- Natus Est Jesus for soprano and basso continuo
∙ Johann Sebastian Bach:
- Öffne dich Mein Ganzes Herze from the cantata ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’, BWV 61 for soprano and basso continuo
- Bereite Dir, Jesu, Noch Itzo Die Bahn from the cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’, BWV 147a for soprano, violin and basso continuo
∙ Christoph Graupner:
- Cantata ‘Ach Gott und Herr’
∙ François Couperin:
- Première Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredy Saint
- Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredy Saint
∙ Michel-Richard De Lalande:
- Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres du Mercredy Saint
∙ Alessandro Scarlatti:
- Non Sò Qual Più M’Ingombra, Cantata Pastorale for soprano, two violins and basso continuo
- O Di Betlemme, Altera Poverta Venturosa, Cantata per Natale for soprano, two violins, viola and basso continuo
∙ Attilio Malachia Ariosti:
- Pur Alfin Gentil Viola, Cantata à Voce Sola con la Viola d’Amore
∙ Cataldo Amodei:
- Su l’or che l’aurora for voice, harpsichord and theorbo
- Va’, ché l’hai fatto a me for voice and archlute
- Lieve al piè, grave al passo (Cantata sacra per la Beatissima Vergine) for voice, harpsichord and theorbo
∙ John Dowland:
- O Sweet Woods
- I Saw My Lady Weepe
- Daphne Was Not So Chaste
- Farewell Too Faire
- Time’s Eldest Sonne
- Shall I Strive With Words To Move?
∙ John Danyel:
- Dost Thou Withdraw Thy Grace?
∙ Robert Johnson:
- Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies
∙ Sigismondo D’India:
- Da L’Onde Del Mio Pianto
∙ Goerg Schimmelpfennig:
- Dolce Tempo Passato
∙ Heinrich Schutz:
- Eile Mich, Gott, Zu Erretten
∙ Etienne Moulinie:
- Paisible et Ténébreuse Nuit
∙ Jean-Baptiste Boesset:
- Que Philis A L’Esprit Léger
∙ Henry Lawes:
- Anacreaon’s Ode, Call’d The Lute (original Greek)
- Anacreon’s Ode, Call’d The Lute (‘English’d, to be sung by a Basse alone’)
- At Dead Low Ebb Of Night (‘A tale out of Anacreon’)
- Orpheus’ Hymn To God
∙ John Blow:
- Sappho To The Goddess Of Love
∙ John Wilson:
- Diffugere Nives (Horace, Odes IV,7)
∙ Alfonso Ferrabosco II:
- So Beautie On the Waters Stood
∙ Maurice Greene:
- Orpheus With His Lute
∙ John Weldon:
- Stop, O Ye Waves