Angels Of Venice is a harp, cello, flute and vocal group founded by harpist Carol Tatum in 1993.

The group's core sound is harp, flute and cello but also combines Middle Eastern

Middle Eastern music

The music of Western Asia and North Africa spans across a vast region, from Morocco to Afghanistan, and its influences can be felt even further afield. Middle Eastern music influenced the music of India, as well as Central Asia, Spain, Southern Italy, the Caucasus and the Balkans, as in chalga...

, medieval

Medieval music

Medieval music is Western music written during the Middle Ages. This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends sometime in the early fifteenth century...

 and neoclassical

Neoclassicism (music)

Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the period between the two World Wars, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint...

 styles.

Members

• Carol Tatum - harp, Irish bouzouki
• Cathy Biagini - cello
• Christina Linhardt - vocals, flute (as of 2003)
• Susan Craig Winsberg - flutes/recorder

Their self titled album was released through Windham Hill as well as numerous tracks on various Windham Hill compilations. Originally Angels of Venice was purely an instrumental group with cameo vocal performances.
Featured guest vocalists who have recorded with Angels Of Venice are shock-rock/goth singer Charles Edward (featured vocalist on CD "Ancient Delirium") from the industrial goth band Seraphim Shock and early music/opera tenor Daniel Plaster (Polorum regina on the CD "Sanctus").

Music For Harp, Flute And Cello (1994)

Track listing

1. Little Angels
2. Dragonfly
3. Crystal Tears
4. An English Garden
5. Greensleeves
   Greensleeves
   "Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca.A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in September 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves". It then appears in the surviving A Handful of...
   
   
6. Sara's Dream
7. Night Spirits
8. Luna Mystica
9. A Time For Dreams
10. The Enchanted Forest
11. Lover's Requiem
12. The Reflecting Pool
13. Dreamcatcher

Awake Inside A Dream

Track listing

1. Lionheart
2. A Chantar Mer
   Beatritz de Dia
   Beatritz or Beatriz de Dia was the most famous of a small group of trobairitz, or female troubadours who wrote courtly songs of love during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.-Life:...
   
   
3. Nana
4. The Sins Of Salome
5. Scarborough Faire
   Scarborough Fair
   "Scarborough Fair" is a traditional ballad of the United Kingdom.The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she...
   
   
6. Three Nightingales
7. The World Beyond The Woods
8. China Moon
9. Light At The Edge Of The World
10. Awake Inside A Dream

Angels of Venice (1999)

Track listing

1. Sad Lisa
   Tea for the Tillerman
   Tea for the Tillerman is an album by singer-songwriter Cat Stevens. This album, Stevens' second during 1970, includes many of Stevens' best-known songs including "Where Do the Children Play?", "Hard Headed Woman", "Wild World", "Sad Lisa", "Into White" and "Father and Son"...
   
   
2. Lionheart
3. After The Harvest
4. A Chantar Mer
5. Within You Without You
   Within You Without You
   "Within You Without You" is a song written by George Harrison, released on The Beatles' 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.-Composition:...
   
   
6. Trotto
7. Queen Of The Sun
8. Si Je Perdais Mon Ami
9. As Tears Go By
   As Tears Go By (song)
   "As Tears Go By" is a song written by The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, and their manager Andrew Loog Oldham, and was a popular hit for both British singer Marianne Faithfull in 1964 and The Rolling Stones in 1965.-History:...
   
   
10. China Moon
11. Tears Of The World (Lacrimae Mundi)

Music for Harp (2001)

Track listing

1. Nothing Else Matters
   Nothing Else Matters
   "Nothing Else Matters" is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released as the third single from its self-titled fifth studio album, Metallica. The song peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart as well as top-ten positions on many European charts...
   
    (Metallica
   Metallica
   Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...
   
    Cover) (04:55)
2. Persentio (Latin for "to Deeply Feel") (06:23)
3. Voyage of the Sea Witch (05:06)
4. Starshine Lullabye (03:22)
5. Non Alegra (03:18)
6. Forever After (07:16)
7. I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls (04:29)
8. Parson's Farewell (04:47)
9. Wildflowers (05:16)
10. Adagio in F Major (03:42)

Sanctus (2003)

Track listing

1. Carol of the Bells
   Carol of the Bells
   "Carol of the Bells" is the common English language title of a Christmas carol of Ukrainian origin, which has in recent years grown in popularity, particularly in English-speaking countries. The work was originally a choral miniature composition by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych based on...
   
   
2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
   God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen is an English traditional Christmas carol. The melody is in Aeolian mode. It was published by William B...
   
   
3. Little Drummer Boy
   Little Drummer Boy
   "The Little Drummer Boy," originally known as "Carol of the Drum," is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer/teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. It was recorded 1955 by the Trapp Family Singers and further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry...
   
   
4. Polorum Regina - Llibre Vermell (The Red Book, 14th Century)
5. What Child is This?
   What Child Is This?
   "What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, English writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep depression...
   
   
6. We Three Kings
   We Three Kings
   "We Three Kings", also known as "We Three Kings of Orient Are" or "The Quest of the Magi", is a Christmas carol written by the Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr., who wrote both the lyrics and the music. It is suggested to have been written in 1857 but did not appear in print until his Carols, Hymns...
   
   
7. O Holy Night
   O Holy Night
   "O Holy Night" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by Placide Cappeau , a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem...
   
   
8. Silent Night
   Silent Night
   "Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...
   
   
9. Edelweiss
   Edelweiss
   Edelweiss , Leontopodium alpinum, is a well-known European mountain flower, belonging to the sunflower family.-Names:The common name comes from German edel, meaning "noble", and weiß "white", thus signifying "noble whiteness".The scientific name Leontopodium is a Latin adaptation of Greek...
   
   
10. Good King Winceslas
    Good King Wenceslas
    "Good King Wenceslas" is a popular Christmas carol about a king who goes out to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen . During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but is enabled to continue by following the king's footprints, step for step,...
    
    
11. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
12. Carol of the Bells (Vocal Version)

Ancient Delirium (2009)

Track listing

1. 01 Nag (The Serpent King)
2. 02 Ancient Delirium
3. 03 Dreams And Nightmares
4. 04 Friends (by Led Zeppelin
5. 05 Am I Dreaming?
6. 06 Dance Until You Forget
7. 07 Primitive Kiss
8. 08 Ahava
9. 09 I Fall
10. 10 How Can I?
11. 11 Courtesan Suite

External links

• Angels Of Venice official site