KIRKBY, EMMA

Emma Kirkby had originally no intention of becoming a professional singer. She read Classics at Oxford and was a schoolteacher for a while, but after a period as a member of various choirs and small ensembles mainly specialising in Renaissance and Baroque music she joined The Taverner Choir, and two years later began her long-lasting association with The Consort of Musicke. She took part in the early Florilegium recordings with The Consort of Musicke and The Academy of Ancient Music, and working here with original instruments became aware of the need to develop a new kind of vocal tone; this problem she had to solve herself with the help of Jessica Cash in London and various early music specialists, including instrumentalists and conductors as well as fellow-singers. Emma Kirkby has more than a hundred recordings to her name. They range from the sequences of Hildegard of Bingen to Italian and English madrigals, Baroque cantatas and oratorios, and works by Mozart and Haydn. Her preferred platform is still in live performance with groups such as Britain’s London Baroque, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Fretwork, and Florilegium, Canada’s Tafelmusik, and continental colleagues, including Concerto Copenhagen, L’Orfeo of Linz, Freiburger Barockorchester.

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
AMODEI / ZAMBONI / STORACE: Vocal and Instrumental Works	BIS-CD-1415
ARIOSTI, A.: Stockholm Sonatas for Viola d'amore, Vol. 3 (Georgi)	BIS-CD-1675
BEACH: Chanson d'amour	BIS-CD-1245
BUXTEHUDE: Vocal Music, Vol. 1	8.224062
BUXTEHUDE: Vocal Music, Vol. 1	8.557251
CAPPELLA COLONIENSIS (1954-2004)	C49382
CHRISTMAS MUSIC - SCARLATTI, A. / CORELLI, A. / PACHELBEL, J. / BACH, J.S. (Kirkby, London Baroque)	BIS-CD-1135
Classical Kirkby - Orpheus and Corina	BIS-CD-1435
COUPERIN / LALANDE: Lecon de Tenebres	BIS-CD-1575
DOWLAND: Songs for his Elizabethan Patrons	BIS-SACD-1475
HANDEL, G.F.: Arias	C71024
HANDEL, G.F.: Silete venti / HASSE, J.A.: La gelosia / BACH, J.S.: Non sa che sia dolore (Boulin, Kirkby)	Phoenix171
HANDEL, G.F.: Solo Cantatas, HWV 110, 113, 142, 173 (Handel in Italy) (Kirkby)	BIS-SACD-1695
HANDEL: Gloria / Dixit Dominus	BIS-CD-1235
HANDEL: Salve Regina / Trio Sonata in G minor / Laudate pueri	BIS-CD-1065
HASSE, J.A.: Cleofide (Opera Scenes and Arias) (Kirkby)	Phoenix178
HASSE, J.A.: Cleofide [Opera] (Kirby)	C10193-96
KIRKBY, Emma: Musique and Sweet Poetrie - Jewels from Europe around 1600	BIS-SACD-1505
VIVALDI, A.: Stabat Mater / PERGOLESI, G.B.: Salve Regina / BACH, J.S.: Tilge, Hochster, meine Sunden (D. Taylor, Kirkby, Theatre of Early Music)	BIS-SACD-1546
Vocal Recital (Baroque): Kirkby, Emma (The Artistry of Emma Kirkby)	BIS-CD-1734-35