Dr Arne at Vauxhall Gardens [Import]

Roy Goodman (Conductor), Parley of Instruments (Orchestra), Emma Kirkby (Performer), Richard Morton (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Emma Kirkby, Richard Morton
• Orchestra: Parley of Instruments
• Conductor: Roy Goodman
• Audio CD (November 12, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B000002ZJM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,918 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #16 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Divas > Kirkby, Emma

Track Listings

1. Six Cantats, For A voice And Instruments: No. 5 The Morning

2. Sigh No More, Ladies

3. What Tho' His Guilt

4. Cymon And Iphigenia

5. Six Cantatas, For A Voice And Instruments: No. 3. Frolic And Free

6. Thou Soft Flowing Avon

7. Jenny

8. The Winter's Amusement: The Lover's Recantation

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Emma Kirby Is Enchanting!, July 31, 2000

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sherri j. thorne (brooklyn, new york United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dr Arne at Vauxhall Gardens (Audio CD)

One of the nicest things that a friend ever did for me was to give me this recording, and to introduce me to the pure, graceful, and sweet soprano of Emma Kirkby. Here, in this recording of Dr. Thomas Arne at Vauxhall Gardens, Ms. Kirkby shows why she is one of the great interpreters of Early and Baroque music. The opening track 'The Glittering Sun' taken from the Cantata Morning,is absolutely enchanting and well suited for Ms Kirby's pure soprano. Ms Kirkby also shares the spotlight with Tenor, Richard Morton who sings 'Sigh No More ladies' and other songs. Written in 1745 just after being appointed composer to Vauxhall Gardens, these songs are Thomas Arne's most famous works. Arne often gets short shrift as a composer and is overshadowed by giants of English Baroque music such as Handel and Purcell. This recording will surprise and delight anyone who loves Baroque music and Ms. Kirkby.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Other Arne, April 16, 2001

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Daniel G. Berk (West Bloomfield, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dr Arne at Vauxhall Gardens (Audio CD)

You won't find Thomas Arne's, Rule Brittania, on this CD. What you will find is a number of beautiful vocal compositions by Arne. The performances by Emma Kirkby are particularly exquisite. These compositions provide yet another example of the additional depth of composers, whom we have tended to consider in connection with only one work, and what we have, heretofore, missed by doing so.