Recordings
The English Concert's recordings have been benchmarks of interpretative integrity and technical excellence for 30 years. Below you can explore featured CDs and our extensive discography, with links for listening, buying or downloading.
Featured CDs
Earlier this year we released our first recording with Elizabeth Watts, a soprano of exceptional musical intelligence and expressive range and winner of both the Kathleen Ferrier Award and the Cardiff Song Prize. J.S. Bach Cantatas and Arias (harmonia mundi USA) was recently Gramophone Editor's Recording of the Month, and it inspired the following encomium from International Record Review: "A most rewarding and satisfying disc in which an excellent band of players under a superb director are crowned by a voice of real magic."
2010 saw four outstanding releases -
3 Baroque Tenors (EMI Classics) with Ian Bostridge explores singers known and admired (if not necessarily loved) by Handel - John Beard, Francesco Borosini and Annibale Po Fabri - in a recording described as follows by The Observer: "Ian Bostridge is at his most vivid, expresssive and delicately ornamental... Switching between Handel, Scarlatti, Vivalid, Caldara, Conti and Gasparini, Bostridge avoids that wearying tendency to fizz the music up breathlessly, opting instead for clean edges and eloquence. The English Concert add real verve."
Handel Duets (Chandos Chaconne) with Sarah Connolly and Rosemary Joshua presents a carefully chosen sequence of Handel's most alluring creations for two virtuoso female voices. Dubbed "sixty glorious minutes" by The Independent, this programme inspired critics to superlatives and the audience to its feet when presented as a concert at Wigmore Hall in April.
Maurice Steger, possibly the world's leading recorder virtuoso, made his debut with us in 2008 and last year returned to make a CD, Mr Corelli in London (Harmonia Mundi USA), that presents the astonishing arrangements by Geminiani of Corelli's opus 5 that so captivated London audiences in the early 1700s. Steger returns for concerts with us in the 2010-11 season.
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J.S. Bach Cantatas & Arias
J.S. Bach Cantatas & Arias
Elizabeth Watts
The English Concert
Harry Bicket
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Corelli - Mr Corelli in London: Recorder Concertos
Maurice Steger, Recorder
The English Concert
Laurence Cummings
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Handel Duets
Arias & duets for soprano and mezzo-soprano
Rosemary Joshua
Sarah Connelly
The English Concert
Harry Bicket
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Three Baroque Tenors
Three Baroque Tenors
Ian Bostridge
The English Concert
Bernard Labadie
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