Emma Kirkby
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Abbess Hildegard of Bingen - A feather on the breath of God
RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano)
Gothic Voices, Christopher Page
Gothic Voices chose to perform the hymns and sequences with great simplicity, alternating a single voice with unison voices over drones. Bingen's spellbinding melodies are clear and meditative,... —
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 1982/3, Winner - Early Music (Medieval and Renaissance)
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Treasures of Baroque Opera
RecommendedJanet Baker, Teresa Berganza, Catherine Bott, Luciano Pavarotti
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Vivaldi: Gloria & Bach: Magnificat
RecommendedEmma Kirkby, Tessa Bonner (sopranos), Michael Chance (counter-tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
Hickox sets effective tempos in Bach's Magnificat and points up the many striking contrasts in colour and texture with which the piece abounds. From among the many successful features of the... —
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Building a Library, December 2018, Recommended Recording
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedRemastered 2014
Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliott & David Thomas
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford & The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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Buxtehude - Sacred Cantatas
Emma Kirkby, Suzie LeBlanc (sopranos), Peter Harvey (bass)
Purcell Quartet
Several of these Sacred Cantatas by Buxtehude aren't otherwise available, and if you'd like to put some flesh on the bare bones of the man admired, and eclipsed, by Bach, then I can't currently... —
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Handel: Joshua, HWV 64
RecommendedEmma Kirkby, James Bowman & John Mark Ainsley
New College Choir & King's Consort, Robert King
With first-rate casts and careful attention to Handel's original texts, King has blown the dust off some magnificent music —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano I), Emily Van Evera (soprano II), Panito Iconomou (alto), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), David Thomas (bass)
Solisten Des Tölzer Knabenchors, Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott
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Building a Library, April 2000, First Choice
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Building a Library, May 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2017, Also Recommended
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JS Bach: Cantatas Nos. 82, 202 & 208
Emma Kirkby (soprano), David Thomas (bass), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Simon Davis (tenor), Michael George (bass)
The Parley of Instruments, The Taverner Players, Andrew Parrott, Roy Goodman
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Sacred Vocal Music of Claudio Monteverdi
RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor) & David Thomas (bass)
Parley of Instruments, Roy Goodman, Peter Holman
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) & Selva morale e spirituale
Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott
The first recording to engage fully with the scholarly debates regarding the form, purpose and pitch of the work, this 1984 version is a comprehensive and radical attempt to reconstruct a festal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Best-kept Secrets
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