L'Oiseau Lyre
L'Oiseau-Lyre is the specialist early music label from Decca. It has a fine reputation for quality recordings performed by renowned artists from the early music world. Artists include Andrew Parrott, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley and Christophe Rousset. Many of these recordings have been absent from the catalogue for several years. Now they are being re-mastered and re-issued.
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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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Building a Library, June 2014, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Vivaldi: Sonatas (6) for cello & harpsichord Op. 14
Christophe Coin (cello), Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord)
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Haydn: Trumpet, Organ and Horn Concertos
Timothy Brown (horn), Friedemann Immer (trumpet)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Fink sings… with fervour and unassuming charm, supported by the sensitive playing of Il Giardino Armonico. This talented ensemble comes into its own in the five short instrumental pieces on... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Editor's Choice
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Mozart - The Violin Concertos
Simon Standage (violin)
The Academy of Ancient Music (on authentic instruments), Christopher Hogwood
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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV211 'Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht' (Coffee Cantata), etc.
RecommendedEmma Kirkby, Rogers Covey-Crump & David Thomas
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
These two most delightful of Bach's secular cantatas here receive sparkling performances fully alive to the humour and invention of the music. The Coffee Cantata illustrates a family altercation... —
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Building A Library, October 2021, Also Recommended
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Ce Diabolico Chant
Ballades, Rondeaus and Virelais of the late 14th century.
The Medieval Ensemble of London (Medieval instruments rebec, fiddle, douçaine, gittern and lute, join alto, tenor and baritone voices from within the Ensemble), Peter Davies & Timothy Davies
These late-14th century courtly avant-garde songs are superbly performed in minimalist groupings by the ensemble which inspired Gothic Voices. Long overdue on CD. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2008, Re-issue of the Month
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