Clare Wilkinson (born in Manchester, England) is an English

mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A bel ...

specialising in

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

and

Renaissance music Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines. Rather than starting from the early 14th-century ''ars nova'', the mus ...

. Her recent CD recordings are *''Mynstrelles with Straunge Sounds'' with the Rose Consort of Viols ( Delphian Records) *''Henry's Music: Motets from a Royal Choirbook'' with Alamire (Obsidian) *''Anne Boleyn's Songbook'' with Alamire (Obsidian) *''Byrd 1589'' with Alamire (Inventa Records) * Bach's ''Magnificat'' with the

Dunedin Consort Dunedin Consort is a baroque music ensemble based in Edinburgh, Scotland. History The group was founded in 1995 by Susan Hamilton and Ben Parry. In 2003, the group chose John Butt as its conductor. Butt shared the title of co-artistic directo ...

(

Linn Records Linn Records is a Glasgow-based record label which specialises in classical music, jazz and Scottish music. It is part of Linn Products. History While Linn engineers were testing their flagship product, the Sondek LP12 turntable, they became fr ...

) *''Adoramus Te'' with the Rose Consort of Viols (Deux-Elles Limited) *''Divine Madness: Souls in Exile'' with Sofie Vanden Eynde and Moneim Adwan (Cypres) *''The Sunlight on the Garden: The Songs of Stephen Wilkinson'' (

Signum Records Signum Records, also known as Signum Classics, is a classical musical record label in the UK founded in 1997. The label began with a project to make the first recording of the complete works of Thomas Tallis. The artists for the Tallis recordi ...

) *''The Silken Tent'' with

Fretwork Fretwork is an interlaced decorative design that is either carved in low relief on a solid background, or cut out with a fretsaw, coping saw, jigsaw or scroll saw. Most fretwork patterns are geometric in design. The materials most commonly u ...

(Signum Records) *''Ballads within a Dream'' (

deutsche harmonia mundi Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (founded 1958) is a German classical music record label. It was founded by Rudolf Ruby and based in Freiburg, Breisgau. The company was acquired by BMG Music in 1992 and is now part of Sony Music Entertainment. Ruby had Alf ...

) *''Handel: Messiah (Dublin Version, 1742)'' with Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Linn Records) *''J.S. Bach: Matthew Passion (Final Performing Version, c. 1742)'' with Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Linn Records) *''J.S. Bach: John Passion, Reconstruction of Bach's Passion Liturgy'' with Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Linn Records) *''J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio'' with Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Linn Records)

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Dunedin Consort
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Singers from Manchester English mezzo-sopranos 20th-century English singers 20th-century English women singers 21st-century English singers 21st-century English women singers British performers of early music Women performers of early music {{England-musician-stub