英國第一把交椅巴洛克女高音艾瑪.柯克比(1949年生),她早年在牛津大學唸古典文學,同時也研習聲樂。畢業後經常跟「古樂復甦運動」的重要人物帕洛特、霍格伍德和廬里(魯特琴名家)搭檔演出,成為最受歡迎的古樂女高音。她具有男童合唱團團員般清純的歌喉,跟一般女高音的「性感」歌聲大相逕庭,演唱時也是追求純粹的音調,揚棄突兀的顫吟,以清晰、活潑、獨特漂亮的美聲,贏得多倫多地球報讚譽她為「音樂世界的寶藏之一」。此外,柯克比也是一位「反歌劇女皇」的聲樂家,很少參加歌劇演出,卻寧願加入小型合唱團,積極推廣數百首被遺忘的早期牧歌(類似男高音皮爾斯爵士和大師級假聲男高音戴勒當年所做者),因而更加得到愛樂者敬重,所錄專輯經常登上暢銷排行榜。本輯為她榮膺牛津古典協會主席之時,代替學術演說的獨唱會曲目。由於事前到圖書館裡精挑細選,因此每一首都是英國國寶級珠玉,值得古樂收藏家珍愛鑑賞!
Henry Lawes
1. |
Legouisin hai gunaikes (Anacreon) |
1'26 |
2. |
Away, away, Anacreon |
1'04 |
3. |
Anacreon's Ode, call'd The Lute (original Greek) |
2'08 |
4. |
Anacreon's Ode, call'd The Lute (Englis'd, to be sung by a Basse alone) |
1'48 |
John Blow
5. |
Sappho to the Goddess of Love |
6'11 |
John Wilson
6. |
Diffugere nives (Horace. Odes.IV,7) |
3'33 |
Thomas Campion
7. |
When to her lute Corinna sings |
1'48 |
John Eccles
8. |
Corinna now you'r young and gay |
1'24 |
Nicholas Lanier
Alfonso II Ferrabosco
10. |
So beautie on the waters stood |
1'29 |
John Blow
11. |
Sappho to the Goddes of Beauty |
5'21 |
John Wilson
12. |
Integer vit� (Horace. Odes I, 22) |
2'52 |
Maurice Greene
13. |
Orpheus with his lute |
3'31 |
Henry Lawes
14. |
Orpheus' Hymn to God |
2'24 |
John Weldon
15. |
Stop, O ye waves |
2'24 |
William Boyce
16. |
When Orpeus went down to the Regions below |
1'55 |
17. |
An answer to Orpheus and Euridice (the words by a Lady) |
1'48 |
Henry Lawes
18. |
At dead low ebb of night (A tale out of Anacreon) |
3'07
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