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Super-excellent Gabrieli and RVW on viols: National Centre for Early Music's Awaken festival
[…] Göteborg. Hids piece proved very fluid of form and rather striking. In St Lawrence Parish Church, Lawrence Street, York on Sunday things were somewhat larger in scale. Robert Hollingworth conducted a (well spaced out) ensemble of I Fagiolini (Martha McLorinan mezzo-soprano, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Long tenors, Greg Skidmore baritone, Stuart O’Hara bass, William Lyons dulcian, bajoncillo, shawm, Nicholas Perry dulcian, bajoncillo, shawm, cornett, Lynda Sayce, Eligio Quinteiro chitarrones, guitars, James Johnstone, Catherine Pierron organs), the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble (Gawain Glenton, Conor Hastings cornetts, Emily White, Miguel Tantos-Sevillano alto sackbuts, tenor sackbuts, Tom Lees, George Bartle tenor sackbuts, Adam Crighton, Adrian France bass sackbuts) and 18 singers who are former members of the University of York's ensemble The 24. The inspiration behind the programme was the travel writer Thomas Coryat who in his book Coryat's Crudities described a 1608 visit to a musical entertainment provided by the confraternity of […]
2019-11-27 11:31:04
[…] He is joined by the BBC Singers, conducted by Bob Chilcott, who will perform the winning carol live, as well as some traditional Christmas favourites. Listen to the 2018 Carol Competition's winning carol here In Tune Christmas Special Friday 20 December, 5-7pm Sean Rafferty and Katie Derham will present a live concert broadcast from St. George’s, Hanover Square, featuring soprano Ermonela Jaho, the Consone Quartet (BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists), and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble. The Verb: Christmas Nonsense Friday 20 December, 10-10.45pm In a programme that celebrates silly stories and ridiculous rhymes, Ian McMillan is joined by Julia Donaldson and Axel Schleffer, creators of the ‘Gruffalo’, and former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen. Music Matters: Greenland Saturday 21 December, 11.45pm-12.30am During a visit to the world’s largest island, Katie Molleson explores the role of traditional and new music for its communities today, as […]
2018-10-22 07:00:08
Music for Windy Instruments: Sounds from the court of King James I
Music for Windy Instruments: Sounds from the court of King James I; English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble; Resonus Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 10 October 2018 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) A window onto the sounds heard at the court of King James IIn an age before amplification, filling large spaces with music required loud, penetrating instruments. And the ensemble of cornetts and sackbuts filled such a purpose. Arising out of the ensembles of shawms and sackbuts which provided outdoor dance music, in the early 17th century ensembles of cornetts and sackbuts provided music for ceremonial and court activities in the larger state rooms of the palaces at the courts of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Music for the more intimate privy chambers being provided by quieter, more intimate instruments.This new disc from the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble on Resonus Classics explores the music of the […]
2013-01-27 01:06:14
Choir of Royal Holloway/The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble/Rupert Gough (Hyperion)Naked except for a strategically placed lute, Venus accompanies Eros in Jan Brueghel the Elder's The Sense of Hearing (1618), a curious allegory filled with song birds but showing no evidence of humans, apart from their abandoned instruments and part-books – Peter Philips's Italian madrigals from 1603. Philips, an English recusant, settled in Brussels and knew Brueghel and Rubens well, his music celebrated in artistic circles as an engine of the Counter-Reformation. These delightfully rich eight-part motets from 1613 are sung here to mark their 400th anniversary, with stately cornetts and sackbuts enhancing the majesty. Rupert Gough and his fresh young voices make a convincing case for these unjustly neglected works.Classical musicStephen Pritchardguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More […]
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