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Chelys Consort of Viols featuring Helen Charlston – The Honour of William Byrd (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:31 minutes | 2,59 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
This disc provides an opportunity to explore the music of the proud Englishman, the devoted friend, the loyal subject, and the faithful servant that was William Byrd, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death. Through a collection of songs and instrumental works performed by the Chelys Consorts of Viols joined by tenor violist Harry Buckoke and mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, this recording introduces this key figure of the English Renaissance music: both devoutly Catholic and a favourite of the Protestant Queen, a serious character capable of weighty contemplation but also sharp wit and humour, and the loyal friend who wrote so personally and touchingly.
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Julian Perkins, Academy Of Ancient Music, Helen Charlston, Richard Burkhard – Eccles: Semele (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:00:40 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Academy of Ancient Music
Academy of Ancient Music, Cambridge Handel Opera Company, Cambridge Early Music and Julian Perkins are proud to present the first professional recording of John Eccles’s Semele (ca 1707), a notable early setting of the great English libretto by William Congreve better known in a version by Georg Friedrich Handel from 1744.
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Helen Charlston, Emma Walshe, Amy Lyddon, Lucy Cox – An Elizabethan Christmas: Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:27 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Viol consort Fretwork and mezzo soprano Helen Charlston explore the more reflective and sombre Christmas celebrations of Elizabethan England, in a collection of works by William Byrd, Anthony Holborne, Orlando Gibbons and Martin Peerson.
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Helen Charlston – Isolation Songbook (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:02 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records
The feeling which many of us experienced in spring 2020 as, country by country, the world went into lockdown – a sense of life gone into standstill – was especially acute for musicians, deprived suddenly of both their livelihoods and the human connections that give their work meaning.
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Helen Charlston – Battle Cry: She Speaks (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:18 minutes | 950 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2022 Delphian Records Ltd.
This powerful yet understated recital of modern and seventeenth-century works aims to revisit but also to re-balance the obsession of earlier music with female abandonment and lament.
The stories of women such as Dido and Ariadne have been told and retold throughout history. Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston reconsiders the assumed helplessness of those often seen as being left behind by male adventure and success.
A recent work commissioned for Charlston from the composer Owain Park further takes up the challenge of giving ‘abandoned women’ their own platform, as well as exploring new possibilities for an instrumental pairing – that of voice and theorbo – that remains little explored in contemporary music.
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