Secular Vocal Music

Sabine Devieilhe

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Warner Classics on 10 Nov 2017

This project originated, Sabine Devieilhe says, from her desire to tackle Lakmé. In fact, Delibes was able to compose for her heroine some of the most ...

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Emmanuelle Haïm

Cantatas (secular) - Released by Erato on 23 Nov 2018

Handel's Italian cantatas date from early in his career, with few exceptions (none on display here). As a group they are less well-known than his oper ...

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Anett Fritsch

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Orfeo on 6 Jan 2017

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Christina Pluhar

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Erato - Warner Classics on 8 Nov 2019

Christina Pluhar has long been interested in the vocal music of the 17th century, in particular that of composer Luigi Rossi born around 1597 in the b ...

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Paul McCreesh

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Signum Records on 6 Oct 2017

The Gabrieli ensemble, under the direction of their remarkable leader Paul McCreesh, explore here the immensely rich British choral repertoire which i ...

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Barbara Hannigan

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Winter & Winter on 21 Dec 2015

All the information about this half-hour-long song cycle is relegated to websites, and websites with user-unfriendly URLs, at that. So here's the basi ...

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Sandrine Piau

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Alpha Classics on 13 Apr 2018

The least that we can say here is that soprano Sandrine Piau refuses to be pigeonholed: she cheerfully steers a course from the German romanticism of ...

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René Jacobs

Oratorios (secular) - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 Jan 2004

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Rinaldo Alessandrini

Secular Vocal Music - Released by naïve classique on 7 Feb 2017

2017 marks the 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi, one of the fathers of modern music, who gave a major impulse to expressivity and individuality ...

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Daniel Harding

Secular Vocal Music - Released by BR-Klassik on 29 Sep 2014

La Compagnia del Madrigale

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Glossa on 28 Oct 2016

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Cecilia Bartoli

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Decca on 8 Nov 2019

She had to dare. Cecilia Bartoli appears on this album cover nude, androgynous, in a full beard and with hair down to her shoulders, delving deeper in ...

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Magdalena Kožená

Secular Vocal Music - Released by PentaTone on 3 May 2019

On her first album under the label PentaTone, Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená returns to her first baroque loves, collaborating with her fellow c ...

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Thomas Baeté

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Musica Ficta on 1 Jun 2013

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Eva Zaïcik

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Alpha Classics on 25 Jan 2019

Mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik, who has signed up with Alpha for several recordings, is one of the most prominent vocal artists of her generation. She was c ...

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Nathalie Stutzmann

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Warner Classics on 27 Oct 2017

This album is a selection of pieces from Arie antiche, a 19th Century collection of songs edited by Alessandro Parisotti to be a vocal primer. Though ...

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Philippe Herreweghe

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Phi on 28 Apr 2014

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Xavier Sabata

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Aparté on 30 Nov 2018

This recital by the countertenor Xavier Sabata, accompanied by Arnadí's Vespres ensemble, takes its title "L'Alessandro amante" from a lost homonymous ...

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Teresa Berganza

Secular Vocal Music - Released by Decca on 1 Jan 1959

A newly remastered collection of four original Decca albums featuring the Spanish mezzo-soprano at the height of her powers in the repertoire most ass ...

Rinaldo Alessandrini

Secular Vocal Music - Released by naïve classique on 1 Jun 2009

Lucile Richardot

Secular Vocal Music - Released by harmonia mundi on 6 Apr 2018

We could say that the composers chosen here by Sébastien Daucé and the Ensemble Correspondances cover England from 1600 to 1700, from Coprario's gener ...

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