James Bowman
About the artist
James Thomas Bowman (b. November 6, 1941) is a famous countertenor born in Oxford, England. His career spans opera, oratorio, contemporary music and solo recitals. He began singing as a boy chorister at Ely Cathedral. He later went to New College, Oxford. He was a member of the New College and Christ Church choirs. In 1967 he auditioned for Benjamin Britten's English Opera Group and was cast as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a work with which he has subsequently had a long and distinguished association.
Top songs
- Carmina Burana: O Fortuna
- Eternal source of light
- Down by the Salley Gardens
- Cantata BWV 54 'Widerstehe doch der Sünde': Aria: Widerstehe doch der Sünde
- Easter Cantata: Recitative: Wie sollt' ich da
- Sweet Kate
- Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby
- Flow, my tears, fall from your springs
- Carmina Burana: O Fortune plango vulnera
- Carmina Burana: In trutina
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- Palästinalied
- Carmina Burana: Tanz
- Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), RV.608 : 4. "Cum dederit" (Andante)
- Parti De Mal
- Carmina Burana: Veris leta facies
- Carmina Burana: Ecce gratum
- 1. Stabat mater 2. Cuius animan 3. O quam tristis
- Qui es promesses
- Carmina Burana: Omnia sol temperat
- Carmina Burana: Chramer, gip die varwe mir
- Rejoice in the Lamb - Festival Cantata Op. 30 (2004 Digital Remaster): Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues
- Laßt uns all' Mariam loben!
- Qui Tolis
- Though your strangeness
- Carmina Burana: Floret silva
- Carmina Burana: Were diu werlt alle min
- Jubilate Domino
- Carmina Burana: In taberna quando sumus
- O mitissima
- Here the deities approve
- Sound of the Trumpet
- Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), R.608 : 7. Gloria Patris. 8. Sicut erat in principio 9. Amen
- Carmina Burana: Veni, veni, venias
- Salve Regina: Salve Regina
- Carmina Burana: Dulcissime
- Carmina Burana: Olim lacus colueram
- J'os bien a m'amie parler
- Carmina Burana: Estuans interius
- Viderunt omnes
- Leonin: Music of the Gothic Era - Notre Dame Period - 1. "Viderunt omnes"
- Salve Regina
- Sweeter Than Roses
- Ja Nus Hons Pris
- Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, R.621 - 1. Stabat mater 2. Cuius animan 3. O quam tristis
- Carmina Burana: Ave formosissima
- Maria, starke Sonnen: Maria, starke Sonnen
- Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), R.608 : 1. Nisi Dominus
- Je ne Puis - Amors me tienent - Veritatem
- Dixit Dominus, RV 594: No. 8, Aria "De torrente in via"
- Impudenter circumivi
- Carmina Burana: Dies, nox et omnia
- Machaut: Qui es promesses
- Salve Regina: Ad te suspiramus
- 1. "Viderunt omnes"
- Carmina Burana: Circa mea pectora
- Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
- Salve Regina: Ad te clamamus
- Carmina Burana: Ego sum abbas
- Fairest Isle
- Carmina Burana: Stetit puella
- Carmina Burana: Reie - Swaz hie gat umbe - Chume, chum geselle min - Swaz hie gat umbe
- Cantata BWV 54: Aria: Wilderstehe doch der Sünde
- Condicio - O Nacio - Mane Prima
- Stabat Mater, RV621 : 4. Quis est homo 5. Quis non posset 6. Pro peccatis
- Salve Regina: O clemens
- Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), RV.608 - 4. "Cum dederit" (Andante)
- Maria, starke Sonnen
- Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - 4. Quae moerabat
- The Woodcutters Song
- Carmina Burana: Tempus est iocundum
- Come ye sons of art, 1694, ode for Queen Mary (excerpts)
- If my complaints could passions move
- Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30, Act II, Scene 2: Symphonie - Arioso "Che puro ciel, che chiaro sol" (Orfeo)
- Li Noviaus Tens
- Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - 7. Eia Mater
- Giunta vaga biltà
- Stabat Mater, RV621 : 7. Eja Mater 8. Fac ut ardeat 9. Amen
- O tocius Asie
- Carmina Burana: Amor volat undique
- Cantata BWV 54: Recitative: Die Art verruchter Sünden
- Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, R.621 - 4.Quis est homo 5. Quis non posset 6. Pro peccatis
- Salve Regina: Et Jesum
- Carmina Burana: Si puer cum puellula
- Salve Regina: Eia ergo
- Epithaph for Salomon Pavey
- Stabat Mater, RV621 : 1. Stabat mater 2. Cuius animan 3. O quam tristis
- de la Halle: J'os bien a m'amie parler
- Grief of my best love's absenting
- Stabat Mater, RV 621 : 1. Stabat mater 2. Cuius animan 3. O quam tristis
- The Night
- Gibbons: The Song of Angels
- Sleep: Sleep
- Go, Crystal Tears
- 4. "Cum dederit" (Andante)
- Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - 10. Fac ut portem
- Stabat Mater : 4. Quae moerabat
- De! dinmi tu
- Can She Excuse My Wrongs?
- Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), R.608 - 1. "Nisi Dominus" (Allegro)
- Concerto on the Death of Henry Purcell: IV. Allegro
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