{"title":"Academy of Ancient Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcademy of Ancient Music was founded in 1973, with a mission that seemed revolutionary at the time. It began with a simple, radical question: what could historical research tell us about the way the composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries approached their music? Our founder, the harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood, hoped that ‘by studying their manuscripts and instruments, by returning to the colours, the style and clarity of their individual periods, we can rediscover their works.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, under the direction of Laurence Cummings, AAM is reaffirming its founding values. Through the ensemble’s education programme AAMplify it is sharing its expertise with emerging performers and listeners. Above all AAM gives live performances that put its principles and our scholarship into living, inspirational practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn its sixth decade AAM continues to explore: uncovering forgotten repertoire, and charging even familiar classics with an emotional conviction that sweeps away barriers and unites performer and listener alike. To discover the world anew is one of life’s most fulfilling experiences – one that AAM aims to share every time it plays.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"arthur-sullivan-songs-for-tenor","title":"Arthur Sullivan: Songs for Tenor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Webb (tenor)\u003cbr\u003eJennifer France (soprano)\u003cbr\u003eCharles Rice (baritone)\u003cbr\u003eAcademy of Ancient Music\u003cbr\u003eJohn Andrews (conductor)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this debut recording of songs, arias and duets from tenor David Webb, composer Arthur Sullivan emerges as both a figure of Savoy theatre polish, and as a composer of clarity and restraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on years of experience with this repertoire, the artists bring an ease that feels instinctive and assured. With the Academy of Ancient Music, this is the first recording of Gilbert and Sullivan on period instruments, offering a sound closer to that heard in Victorian drawing rooms, concert halls and band stands than the modern pit. Textures open out, the words (including texts from William S Gilbert) carry with directness, and Sullivan’s craft is newly apparent across three decades of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat results is rediscovery: a return to the scale, colour, and immediacy Sullivan’s audiences would have known. 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