The Emma Kirkby Collection [Import]

Claudio Monteverdi (Artist), George Frideric Handel (Artist), Johann Sebastian Bach (Artist), Sigismondo D'India (Artist), John Dowland (Artist), Guillaume de Machaut (Artist), Hildegard of Bingen (Artist), Thomas Campion (Artist), Henry Lawes (Artist), Henry Purcell (Artist), Michael East (Artist), The Consort of Musicke (Artist), Taverner Consort Players (Artist), Roy Goodman (Artist), Anthony Rooley (Artist), Emma Kirkby (Artist), Christopher Page (Artist), Denys Darlow (Artist), Andrew Parrott (Artist), Parley of Instruments (Artist), London Handel Orchestra (Artist), Gothic Voices (Artist), David Reichenberg (Artist), Instrumental Ensemble (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 12, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B000002ZJG
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,048 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #15 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Virelais
  • #18 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Divas > Kirkby, Emma

Track Listings

1. Confiterbor tibi, Domine (Psalm 110)

2. Now Hath Flora Robbed Her Bowers

3. Stript Of Their Green Our groves Appear

4. Voglio di vita uscir

5. Piangono al pianger mio

6. Flow Not So Fast, Ye Fountains

7. Foy Porter

8. Columba aspexit

9. Sheep May Safely Graze

10. Time Stands Still

11. Diana

12. Quel squardo sdegnosetto

13. Maledetto sia l'aspetto

14. The Lark

15. Move Now With Measured Sound

16. Sharp Thorns Despising

17. Sich tiben im Lieben

18. You Meaner Beauties Of The Night

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There is no such thing as too much Emma Kirkby, July 15, 2002

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Craig Matteson (Saline, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Emma Kirkby Collection (Audio CD)

The only defect in this disk is that it isn't a three or four disk set. Some people don't appreciate her beautiful voice and I feel sorry for them. I first heard her voice live in a concert here in Ann Arbor in December of 1980 and she stunned me. The memory of her beautiful voice still lives in my mind and heart.

Well, this disk gives us 18 selections from a number of different composers from the Baroque. Every one of them is a treasure and has its own charms. I can't pick a favorite, but I can say that each of these pieces show off her voice and singing style in different ways.

Yes, I wish she had included more Purcell and something even nicer than what we have on track 3, but what would I give up? Well, that is where I say we need this to have been a two or three disk collection.

You won't go wrong with this wonderful disk!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The marriage of skill and magic, January 11, 2007

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S. Tolleson-Rinehart "suetr" (Chapel Hill, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Emma Kirkby Collection (Audio CD)

Ms. Kirby's voice is limpid, exquisitely pitched, strong, and yet beautifully refined. Her command of her voice is extraordinary, with phrasing, delicate embellishments and what I think are some vocal cadenzas, all showing the skill and craft of an artist who has brought her artistry to its highest state. But she makes her artistry sound so easy, so natural: nothing of bravura, nothing forced here. The selections are wonderfully chosen; together, they give us the whole range of early to late Baroque, in every mood. Each listening refreshes the spirit. What an artist!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Voice of an Angel!, July 20, 1999

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This review is from: The Emma Kirkby Collection (Audio CD)

One of the most beautiful angelic voice in the world! But I don't think this collection shows her best recording pieces.