Orchestral Music (English) - WOOD, H. / WALTON, W. / VAUGHAN

Music for the Sherborne Missal. A meditative album of music linked to the Sherborne missal, an important manuscript associated with Sherborne Abbey which celebrated it's 1300th anniversary in 2005. Sung by Magdala, Oxford's leading mixed-voice choir, it contains both gentle plainchant and magnificent full-bodied choral music.

Music for quiet contemplation Haunting and evocative words and music that bring US echoes from the world of the monks of Lindisfarne, the Saxon monastery on Holy Island off Northumbria, with early English church music and Northumbrian pipes.

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Soothing songs and tunes for children. Hush, hush! Baby needs sleep! An album of lullabies and gentle, soothing music to help baby - or even Mum and Dad! - get some sleep after a busy day. Mozart, Chopin and folksong, piano and harp combine in a program which becomes gradually quieter and more serene.

Tranquil medieval music featuring The Hilliard Ensemble An emphasis on peace and calm in this selection of medieval music, including gentle songs by one of the greatest composers of the age, Guillaume Dufay, whose music charmed the ears of the Burgundian court in the fifteenth century. Plus harp music by King Henry VIII.

Fine renaissance music. The gentle lute played by Lynda Sayce, one of Britain's leading virtuosos. The best lute music of the Renaissance, contrasting the different regional musical styles which emerged during the golden period of lute composition. Played on a variety of different lutes.

A Special CD to Mark the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta, a Turning Point in English History. The Plainchant and Carols on This Recording Are Some of the Greatest Glories of the Medieval World. Their Origins in the Oral Tradition Make the Surviving Manuscripts, Much Like Magna Carta, Especially Precious.

'Over hill over dale, through bush, through briar...' An atmospheric album of favourite poetry and music on the theme of fairies, including music by Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn and Purcell, and poetry from Shakespeare, Herrick and Keats. Children will love it but so will the grown-ups!

Good old-fashioned nursery songs. Traditional nursery rhymes and children's songs in new, stylish arrangements using traditional instruments of the past. Lovely tunes, innocent words, and not a synthesizer or artificial drum machine to be heard - just high quality music-making.

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge houses one of the world's most important manuscripts of keyboard music, composed by England's greatest composers of the early seventeenth century. This album includes fantasias and arrangements of popular songs and dances plus the conventional pairing of slow and fast dances, the pavan and galliard.

Fine Traditional music from the farthest reaches of the Celtic lands. Authentic, atmospheric and relaxing melodies for harp, pipes and voice express tales of love, nature, home and heroic deeds.

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN - Winter Songs for the Christmas Season

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This new release is an uplifting collection of moving and wistful orchestral classics which celebrate the English landscape and it's natural beauty. English composers have always excelled at pastoral music with a hint of nostalgia: from 'The lark ascending' to the strains of 'Greensleeves' this evocative selection features some of this pleasant land's finest music. English music-making and composition has long been associated with a reaction to the beautiful and varied rural landscapes of this historic country and is often tinged with nostalgia and a forlorn romanticism. All of the composers on this disc were fascinated by English folk music and many used folk songs as the melodic basis of many of their works. Bax was reflects the subject matter of Tintagel with it's association with King Arthur, Gustav Holst loved the English countryside, having been brought up in Gloucestershire.