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Spring!

Season 4, Ep. 7
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Sammy (they've given up calling him Nicholas), Eamonn & Robert blow away the cobwebs to welcome in music for SPRING. Lili Boulanger, Guillaume de Machaut, Caroline Shaw, Peter Warlock and Monteverdi (not Zefiro torna either) - with the Carice Singers, Gabrieli Consort, Gothic Voices, The 24 (Uni of York), Orpheus Vokale Ensemble and Concerto Italiano.


Lili Boulanger - Hymne au soleil 

Orpheus Vokale Ensemble / Michael Alber

Antoni Baryshevskyi - piano

Carus


Claudio Monteverdi - O primavera, gioventù de l'anno

Concerto Italiano - Rinaldo Alessandrini

Naive


Herbert Howells - The summer is coming

Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh

Signum


Guillaume de Machaut - Rose, liz, printemps

Gothic Voices / Christopher Page

Hyperion


Caroline Shaw - And the swallow 

The 24 / Robert Hollingworth

Concert recording


Peter Warlock - All the flowers of the spring

Carice Singers / George Parris

Naxos

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