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Ashley Stafford

Born 1 Jan 1954United Kingdom4 albums

British counter-tenor (born 1954)

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The English Concert Choir

Songs recorded

  1. Saul, oratorio, HWV 53: Symphony3 versions
  2. Act 2 - Hither, This Way, This Way Bend2 versions
  3. Hail ! Bright Cecilia2 versions
  4. Hail, bright Cecilia, Z328 Hail, bright Cecilia2 versions
  5. Saul, oratorio, HWV 53: Symphony. Allegro2 versions
  6. Act 1 - Brave Souls, To Be Renown'd In Story
  7. Act 1 - Come If You Dare
  8. Act 1 - I Call You All To Woden's Hall
  9. Act 1 - Overture
  10. Act 1 - The Lot Is Cast, And Tanfan Pleas'd
  11. Act 1 - Woden, first to thee - The White Horse Neigh'd Aloud - To Woden Thanks We Render
  12. Act 2 - Come, Follow Me
  13. Act 2 - Come, Shepherds, Lead Up A Lively Measure
  14. Act 2 - How Blest Are Shepherds
  15. Act 2 - Let Not A Moonborn Elf Mislead Ye
  16. Act 2 - Second Act Tune: Air
  17. Act 2 - Sheperd, Leave Decoying
  18. Act 3 - 'Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye; Ritornello - 'Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us
  19. Act 3 - Great Love, I Know Thee Now
  20. Act 3 - No Part Of My Dominion
  21. Act 3 - Prelude - See, See, We Assemble
  22. Act 3 - Prelude - The Frost Scene - What Ho! Thou Genius Of This Isle
  23. Act 3 - Prelude While The Cold Genius Rises - What Power Art Thou
  24. Act 3 - Sound A Parley - 'Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us
  25. Act 3 - Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
  26. Act 3 - Thou Doting Fool
  27. Act 4 - Fourth Act Tune: Air
  28. Act 4 - Passacaglia - How Happy The Lover - Ritornello - For Love Every Creature
  29. Act 4 - Two Daughters Of This Aged Stream Are We
  30. Act 5 - Chaconne
  31. Act 5 - Fairest Isle
  32. Act 5 - For Folded Flocks, And Fruitful Plains
  33. Act 5 - Ritornello - Your Hay It Is Mow'd
  34. Act 5 - Song Tune - Round Thy Coast
  35. Act 5 - St George - Our Natives Not Alone Appear
  36. Act 5 - Symphony
  37. Act 5 - Trumpet Tune
  38. Act 5 - Trumpet Tune - Warlike Consort
  39. Act 5 - Ye Blust'ring Brethren Of The Skies
  40. Act 5 - You Say 'Tis Love
  41. Air
  42. Alexander’s Feast: 1. Accompanied Recitative With Chorus. “Now Strike the Golden Lyre Again” 2. Accompanied Recitative With Chorus.“Break His Bonds of Sleep Asunder” 3. Accompanied Recitative With Chorus. “Hark, Hark! The Horrid Sound”
  43. Alexander’s Feast: 1. Air. “Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries” 2. Accompanied Recitative. “Behold, a Ghastly Band”
  44. Alexander’s Feast: 1. Air. “Thaïs Led the Way” 2.Chorus. “The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy”
  45. Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “Give the Vengeance Due”
  46. Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “He Chose a Mournful Muse”
  47. Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “The Song Began From Jove”
  48. Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “Thus, Long Ago”
  49. Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “With Downcast Looks the Joyless Victor Sate”
  50. Alexander’s Feast: Air and Chorus. “Bacchus, Ever Fair and Young”
  51. Alexander’s Feast: Air and Chorus. “Happy, Happy, Happy Pair!”
  52. Alexander’s Feast: Air. “He Sung Darius, Great and Good”
  53. Alexander’s Feast: Air. “Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures”
  54. Alexander’s Feast: Air. “The Prince, Unable to Conceal His Pain”
  55. Alexander’s Feast: Air. “The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy”
  56. Alexander’s Feast: Air. “War, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble”
  57. Alexander’s Feast: Air. “With Ravish’d Cars”
  58. Alexander’s Feast: Chorus (da capo). “The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause”
  59. Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “At Last Divine Cecilia Came”
  60. Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “Behold Darius Great and Good”
  61. Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “The Listening Crowd Admired the Lofty Sound!”
  62. Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause”
  63. Alexander’s Feast: Duet. “Let’s Imitate Her Notes Above!”
  64. Alexander’s Feast: Overture. (Larghetto e staccato) – Allegro – Adagio
  65. Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize”
  66. Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Soothed With the Sound, the King Grew Vain”
  67. Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “The Mighty Master Smiled to See”
  68. Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “The Praise of Bacchus Then”
  69. Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Timotheus Placed on High”
  70. Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Your Voices Tune, and Raise Them High”
  71. Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “’Twas at the Royal Feast”
  72. Alexander’s Feast: “Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize”
  73. Applause
  74. Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehöret, SWV 396
  75. Dixit Dominus: De torrente in via bibet
  76. Dixit Dominus: Tecum principium
  77. Hail, bright Cecilia, Z328 Hark! Hark! Each tree its silence breaks
  78. Hail, bright Cecilia, Z328 In vain the am'rous flute and soft guitar jointly labour to inspire
  79. Hail, bright Cecilia, Z328 With that sublime celestial lay dare any eahtly songs compare?
  80. Hark each tree
  81. In vain the am'rous flute
  82. Israel in Egypt But as for His People
  83. Israel in Egypt Egypt Was Glad When They Departed
  84. Israel in Egypt He Gave Them Hailstones for Rain
  85. Israel in Egypt He Rebuked the Red Sea
  86. Israel in Egypt He Sent a Thick Darkness
  87. Israel in Egypt He Smote All the Forst Born of Egypt
  88. Israel in Egypt He Spake Theword
  89. Israel in Egypt Now There Arose a New King
  90. Israel in Egypt Overture
  91. Israel in Egypt Their Land Brought Forth Frogs
  92. Israel in Egypt Then Sent He Moses
  93. Israel in Egypt and Isreal Saw That Great Work
  94. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Exodus: V. Aria: "Their land brought forth frogs" (Countertenor)
  95. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 14. Introitus. Moses and the children of Israel
  96. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 15. Duet. The Lord is my strength
  97. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 16. Chorus. He is my God
  98. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 17. Duet. The Lord is a man of war
  99. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 18. Chorus. The depths have covered them
  100. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 19. Chorus. Thy right hand, o Lord
  101. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 20. Chorus. And with the blast of thy nostrils
  102. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 21. Air. The enemy said: I will pursue
  103. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 22. Air. Thou didst blow with the wind
  104. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 23. Chorus. Who is like unto thee
  105. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 24. Duet. Thou in thy mercy
  106. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 25. Chorus. The people shall hear
  107. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 26. Air. Thou shalt bring them in
  108. Israel in Egypt, oratorio, HWV 54: Part 2. No. 27a. Chorus. The Lord shall reign... No. 30. Chorus. Sing ye to the Lord
  109. Ist nicht Ephraim mein teurer Sohn, SWV 40
  110. Jepthe: I. "Cum vocasset in proelium"
  111. Jepthe: III. "Cum vidisset Jephte"
  112. King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. “Woden, first to thee” – “The white horse neigh’d aloud” – “To Woden thanks we render”
  113. King Arthur, Z. 628: Act II. Ritornello “Come, follow me”
  114. King Arthur, Z. 628: Act IV. Passacaglia “How happy the lover” – Ritornello “For love ev’ry creature”
  115. King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. Ritornello “Your hay it is mow’d”
  116. King Arthur: Act I. “I call you all to Woden’s hall”
  117. King Arthur: Act V. “For folded flocks”
  118. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F: Magnificat
  119. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F: Nunc dimittis
  120. Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Gloria in Excelsis Deo...Et in Terra Pax

Albums

King Arthur
King ArthurPurcell; Jennifer Smith, Gillian Fisher, Elisabeth Priday, Gill Ross, Ashley Stafford, Paul Elliott, Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner · 1985
Alexander's Feast, HWV 75
Alexander's Feast, HWV 75Georg Friedrich Händel; Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner · 1988
King Arthur (highlights)
King Arthur (highlights)Purcell; Jennifer Smith, Gillian Fisher, Elisabeth Priday, Gill Ross, Ashley Stafford, Paul Elliott, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner · 1996
The Fairy Queen
The Fairy QueenHenry Purcell; Eiddwen Harrhy, Jennifer Smith, Judith Nelson, Elisabeth Priday, Timothy Penrose, Wynford Evans, Martyn Hill, Stephen Varcoe, David Thomas, Ashley Stafford, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner · 2007

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