This is an example of the restrained British Baroque collection at its best. It doesn't purport to offer authenticity; sacred and secular pieces are mixed freely, and the Music for the Vauxhall Gardens is a collection of Handel pieces that exists only in the imagination of trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins. But the overall effect should be pleasing for almost anybody. Much of the credit goes to soprano Elin Manahan Thomas. This remarkable instrument, silvery but with an elusive layer of grit, will give you an idea from ...
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This is an example of the restrained British Baroque collection at its best. It doesn't purport to offer authenticity; sacred and secular pieces are mixed freely, and the Music for the Vauxhall Gardens is a collection of Handel pieces that exists only in the imagination of trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins. But the overall effect should be pleasing for almost anybody. Much of the credit goes to soprano Elin Manahan Thomas. This remarkable instrument, silvery but with an elusive layer of grit, will give you an idea from brief sampling anywhere as to whether you'll like it or not, but it's perhaps at its best Alessandro Scarlatti's pastoral cantata Su le sponde del Tibro (On the banks of the Tiber, tracks 10-17): it hovers motionlessly on long notes in the arioso movement (track 11) and maintains a rather uncanny steely edge on the high notes. It's not a big voice, and the virtue of Steele-Perkins' playing and the work of the Armonico Consort is that the musicians mirror its dimensions perfectly and keep...
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Add this copy of Let the Bright Seraphim to cart. $32.47, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Signum.
