Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
2. When David Heard
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
3. Almighty and Everlasting God, We Humble Beseech Thy Majesty
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
4. O Come, Let Us Sing Unto the Lord
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
5. Magnificat
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
6. Nunc Dimittis
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
7. In Guilty Night
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
8. Sleep, Fleshly Birth for 6 voices
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
9. Thou May'st Be Proud
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
10. Go Perjur'd man! and if You Ever Return
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
11. What Tears, Dear Prince
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
12. Inclina Domine Aurem Tuam
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
13. In Monte Oliveti
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
14. O Sapientia
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
15. O Vos Omnes
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
16. Te Deum
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
17. Jubilate
Composed by Robert Ramsey
Performed by Magnificat Choir and Players Conducted by Philip Cave
Ramsey: Choral Music,Robert Ramsey,Philip Cave,Magnificat Choir and Players,Asv Living Era,Choral,Classical,Early Music / Chant,Magnificat,Miscellaneous,Miscellaneous Music,Part Song/Glee/Music for Unaccompanied Voices,Sacred Choral Music,Te Deum,Vocal
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Infinite Voice
Manufacturer: Time Art ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000KEGFYQ Release Date: 2007-03-06 |
Tracks:
- sous le dome epais
- pavene
- canto invierno
- pastorale
- casta diva from norma
- enchantment
- song of my soul
- infinite voice
- saint agnes and the burning train
- gabriel's oboe-nella fantasia from the mission
- sheep may safely graze
- sous le dome epais from lakme
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful Singer.......2007-07-21
Calming beauty.......2007-05-28
A beautiful voice.......2007-04-23
In the late 90's Koldenhoven began writing and producing her own solo recordings, including the adult contemporary Keys to the World, a gospel album called Free to Serve, and the Christmas album Heavenly Peace. This year she's back with an all new recording, entitled Infinite Voice, a collection of classically inspired compositions and new age arrangements of classics. Ms Koldenhoven's 5-ocatve voice is the only one featured on this recording, in some places layered to give a choral effect. Most of the instrumentation is synthetic, though several songs include acoustic instrumental performances from guitar, English Horn, oboe, flue, didgeridoo, and percussion.
Infinite Voice is a delicate and beautiful recording that will appeal to fans of light classical vocals from the voices of equally talented singers such as Filippa Giordano, Hayley Westerna, or Sissel.
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Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers
Manufacturer: Collegium ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000952VP Release Date: 2003-08-01 |
Tracks:
- Thomas WEELKES: Hark, all ye lovely saints above
- William BYRD: Though Amaryllis dance in green
- John BENNET: Round about in a fair ring
- Thomas TOMKINS: Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers
- Thomas WILBYE: Flora gave me fairest flowers
- Thomas VAUTOR: Sweet Suffolk owl
- Thomas WEELKES: As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending
- William BYRD: Lullaby
- William BYRD: This sweet and merry month of May
- Thomas MORLEY: Now is the month of maying
- John FARMER: A little pretty bonny lass
- Thomas MORELY: Fyer, fyer!
- Thomas TOMKINS: Too much I once lamented
- Thomas MORLEY: My bonny lass she smileth
- Thomas WEELKES: Ha ha! this world doth pass
- Michael EAST: Quick, quick, away, dispatch
- Orlando GIBBONS: Dainty fine bird
- John DOWLAND: Come again! Sweet love doth now invite
- Thomas VAUTOR: Mother, I will have a husband
- Thomas WILBYE: Draw on, sweet night
- Robert RAMSEY: Sleep, fleshly birth
- Thomas WILBYE: Weep, weep, mine eyes
- Thomas WEELKES: Death hath deprived me
- Orlando GIBBONS: The silver swan
- Thomas WILBYE: Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
Album Description
"an absolute joy" - Music and Musicians Hi-Fi News and Record Review Record of the Month The sixteenth-century madrigal was an Italian form. The term `madrigal' was loosely applied to a wide variety of music, but generally denoted a polyphonic setting for four or more voices of an amorous or pastoral text which was closely depicted in the music. Thomas Morely transplanted the form into England in the 1590s; this marked the beginning of the brief but brilliant flowering of the English madrigal. Between the 1590s and the early 1620s, twenty composers published a total of 36 books of madrigals, after which the form virtually disappeared. Some of these composers, such as Morely and Weelkes, followed the Italian model closely; others, such as Byrd and Gibbons, mostly stayed with the simpler English form of the consort song, where the tune remains in one voice, word-painting is not used, and strophic form is preferred to the continuous structure of the madrigal proper. Among the twenty-one items selected for this recording there are examples of several types of piece,! ranging from true Italianate madrigals such as Too much I once lamented, via more popular `balletts' such as Fyer, fyer!, to the simple part-songs like A little pretty bonny lass. The variety, imagination, and inspired blending of poetry and music characteristic of the best of the `English Madrigal School' afford a particular kind of delight in performance, shared equally by singer and listener
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Stadtpfeiffer: Music of Renaissance Germany
Paul Hofhaimer , Heinrich Isaac , Heinrich Finck , Ludwig Senfl , Caspar Othmayr , Adam Gilbert , Johann Jakob Walther , Michael Praetorius , Anonymous , Gregorian Chant , Adam von Fulda , Georg Forster , Mack Ramsey , Christa Patton , and Piffaro Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000056OE8 Release Date: 2001-02-27 |
Tracks:
- Greyner, Zanner - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Greiner, Zancker, Schnopfitzer - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Greiner, Zanner - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Ach Elshein, Liebes Elselein Mein - Piffaro
- Im Maien - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Was Wird Es Doch Des Wunders Noch - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Was Wird Es Doch Des Wunders Noch - Piffaro
- Was Wird Es Doch Des Wunders Noch - Piffaro
- Ein Maidlein Zue Dem Brunnen Gierg - Piffaro
- Quisquis Requiem Quaeris - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Non Argus Largus - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Non Somnos Requiem - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott - Piffaro
- Der Grabentanz - Piffaro
- Will Neimand Singen - Piffaro/Christa Patton
- Philou & Ho, Herders - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Der Pfauen Schwantz - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Bonum Vinum Cum Sapore - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- In Feuers Hitz/Mole Gravati Criminum - Piffaro
- Pange Lingua Gloriosi - Piffaro
- T' andernaken A 4 - Piffaro
- German Tunes Of The Early 16th Century - Piffaro
- Den Besten Vogel - Piffaro/Benjamin Harms
- Presulem Sanctissimum - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Patientiam Sanctissimum - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Patientiam Mueb Ich Han (A 4) - Piffaro
- Patientiam Mueb Ich Han - Piffaro
- Patientiam Mueb Ich Han (A 5) - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- O Du Armer Judas - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
- Veni Sancte Spiritus - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
Customer Reviews:
"Kind of Blue," 16th-Century Style.......2007-01-07
Lovers of early music - and admirers of "the Renaissance Band" Piffaro - will know exactly where I'm going here. The precision with which early music ensembles like Piffaro perform their repertoire leads most listeners to conclude that every single note is scored as it is played. Nothing could be further from the truth. Generally, such pieces are also built around a modal cantus firmus and consist of ensemble members finding polyphonic, often contrapuntal, lines that harmonize or embellish the main melody.
Thanks to Guenther Schuller and other jazz historians, we associate "early jazz" with pioneering, pre-swing era, early 20th century Buddy Bolden/King Oliver/Louis Armstrong/Jelly Roll Morton "spontaneous composition" jazz music. That said, most music lovers know the familiar great players (and often composers) of earlier centuries - Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, etc. - were all prodigiously talented spontaneous improvisers. Few of their improvisations have been written down (except as cadenzas to their scored compositions), and we don't connect classical improvisation to jazz music. Nor do we generally connect it to "early music" - that is, music that precedes the Baroque - nor does it seem we should, really: jazz is jazz, and in a distinct way, uniquely American, and Renaissance improvisation is vastly less "free."
And now (I know: "at last!") the point: Piffaro's "Stadtpfeiffer: Music of Renaissance Germany" is a glorious tutorial is the Renaissance style of cantus-firmus-plus-improvisation musical composition and performance, as beautiful and surprising in its way as Miles' classic is in its. Each member of this Philadelphia-based ancient-instruments wind ensemble is a technically flawless, multi-instrument musician. And each of the thirty tracks on this generous CD builds from simplicity through several incremental layerings to a thrilling, gyring, soaring, perfectly harmonious multi-voiced conclusion. The scholarship of the group - on display in the attractive, informative notes - is impeccable and results in satisfying arrangements that run through the full diversity of early wind-instrument settings (with occasional percussion, lute, and harp accompaniments).
Moreover, as other reviewers have noted, those who think early music wind instrumentation consists solely of the familiar recorders, shawms, crumhorns, serpents, and the like will be stunned by the presence of bagpipes in Piffaro's kitbag. Bagpipes traversed Europe from the Middle East and wound up in the British Isles (and known to most solely via sonic clichés like "Amazing Grace" and "Danny Boy"). Here they're a force of nature, blowing out from a primordial past, pitched higher than Scottish pipes, in swirls of glorious polyphony. If you enjoy Celtic music, or bluegrass, or the Baroque, or the Hot Fives and Sevens, or the Chieftains, or the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, find a copy of this CD and let the ingenuity of Renaissance masters such as Ludwig Senfl and Caspar Othmayr wash over you via the vituoso improvisational playing of Piffaro. "Early jazz" indeed.
Stadtpfeiffer (literally, "city piper" or "city musician") is, by the way, still available; you can at least order it from the Piffaro website. I stumbled across mine while Christmas shopping; the attractive cover art caught my eye, I like early music, had some Michael Praetorius but little else from Germany, and so selfishly gave myself a gift, sound unheard. What a find, like pulling down a random book at the library that, once read, has changed your life. I haven't stopped playing it. Neither will you.
Lively, intricate and artful music from Piffaro!.......2002-11-25
Exquisite!.......2001-12-25
It made me cry!.......2001-03-27
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English Madrigals and Songs
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001446 Release Date: 1996-11-19 |
Tracks:
- Pastime With Good Company
- Blow Thy Horn, Hunter
- Ah Robin, Gentle Robin
- Hey Trolly Lolly Lo
- Draw On, Sweet Night
- Thule, The Period Of Cosmography
- Weep, Weep Mine Eyes
- As Vesta Was
- Sound Saddest Notes
- Fair Phyllis
- Sleep, Fleshly Birth
- Mother, I Will Have A Husband
- Lay A Garland
- Brigg Fair
- The Trees They Do Grow High
- The Blue Bird
Customer Reviews:
A very pleasant tour through early music history.......2004-11-24
If you like the sound of early music, this is a must-have.
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Old World Christmas
Manufacturer: Archiv Produktion ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000AGD9G Release Date: 2003-10-14 |
Tracks:
- In Dulci Jubilo A 2
- In Dulci Jubilo a 2
- In Dulci Jubilo A 3
- In Dulci Jubilo A 4
- Resonet In Laudibus
- Resonet In Laudibus A 4
- Resonet In Laudibus A 5
- Preter Rerum Seriem
- Preter Rerum Seriem A 6
- Conditor Alme Siderum
- Puer Natus Est A 4
- O Sapientia
- Magnificat Secundi Toni A 5
- O Sapientia A 5
- Quem Vidistis Pastores
- Quem Vidistis Pastores A 7
- Alma Redemptoris Mater
- Alma Redemptoris Mater A 4
- Reges Tharsis Et Insulae A 4
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A Treasury of English Madrigals
Manufacturer: MCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000DWEC Release Date: 1988-01-01 |
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English Madrigals
Manufacturer: Gimell UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000ROA09A Release Date: 2007-07-10 |
Tracks:
- Hark, All Ye Lovely Saints
- Hark! Alleluia
- Phyllis, I Fain Would Die Now
- Cruel Madame
- Ah Dear Heart
- Draw On Sweet Night
- All Creatures Now
- Sleep, Fleshly Birth
- Carters, Now Cast Down
- Woe Is Me
- Though Amaryllis Dance
- The Silver Swan
- When David Heard
- Then David Mourned
- Almighty God, The Fountain Of All Wisdom
- Woe Is Me
- Be Strong And Of a Good Courage
- O Sing Unto the Lord a New Song
- O God, the Proud Are Risen Against Me
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Miserere
Manufacturer: Brilliant Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002JELWM Release Date: 2004-07-27 |
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Ramsey: Choral Music
Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000030OH Release Date: 1995-04-18 |
Tracks:
- How Are The Mighty Fallen
- When David Heard
- Almighty And Everlasting God, We Humbly Beseech Thy Majesty
- O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord
- Magnificat
- Nunc Dimittis
- In Guilty Night - Adey Grummet/Richard Lea/Robert Macdonald
- Sleep, Fleshly Birth - Alicia Carroll/Katy Tansey/Fergus McLusky/Tom Raskin/Daniel Norman/William Clements
- Thou May'st Be Proud - Robin Blaze
- Go Perjur'd Man! And If You E'er Return - Katy Tansey
- What Tears, Dear Prince - Philip Cave
- Inclina Domine Aurem Tuam - Rosemary Tusca/Alicia Carroll/Stephen Taylor/Duncan Saunderson/Tom Phillips/Tom Raskin...
- In Monte Oliveti
- O Sapientia
- O Vos Omnes
- Te Deum
- Jubilate
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Edwardian Music for Organ
Manufacturer: Afka ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000IAHS Release Date: 1999-03-23 |
Music Review:
- Red, White & Black Blues
- Reflected Light
- Robert Gibson: Chamber Music
- Robert Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
- Sacred Music for Mary Queen of Scots
- Samuel Wesley: Sacred Choral Music
- Scarmolin: Symphony No1; Symphony
- Schobert: Sonatas for harpsichord & violin Op16
- Scottish Medieval Plainchant
- Scottish Renaissance Polyphony V3
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