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2023-12-11 15:33:00
The glories of Roman polychoral music after Palestrina explored by I Fagiolini with Benevoli's Missa Tu es Petrus for four choirs
Orazio Benevoli: Missa Tu es Petrus; Palestrina; Bonifazio Graziani; I Fagiolini, the City Musick, Robert Hollingworth; CoroReviewed 11 December 2023An exploration of the rare splendours of 17th-century 16-part mass based on Palestrina's motet, richly inventive and full of gorgeous textures, a work that is certainly not deserving of its relative obscurityPalestrina died in 1594 and for the following century his music remained a prime example of concerted church music with other composers writing in a similar style. The result is a high degree of stylistic diversity as the 17th century developed and only now are we really exploring the highways and byways. This recent disc from Robert Hollingworth, I Fagiolini and the City Musick on the Coro label features the music of Orazio Benevoli (1605-1672) and Bonifazio Graziani (1604/5-1664), focusing on Benevoli's four choir Missa Tu es Petrus based on Palestrina's motet. Little of Benevoli's music has made it onto disc and this […]
2023-10-02 06:57:00
A 3D, surround sound, high definition Vespers for the 21st Century: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 from I Fagiolini at Kings Place
Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 - I Fagiolini, English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Robert Hollingworth - Kings Place (Photo: Monika S Jakubowska)Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610; I Fagiolini, English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Robert Hollingworth; Kings PlaceReviewed by Florence Anna Maunders, 29 September 2023Clarity and virtuosity in spectacular polychoral combinationMonteverdi: Vespers of 1610 - I Fagiolini, Robert HollingworthKings Place (Photo: Monika S Jakubowska)There is a long and varied performance tradition behind the 1610 Vespers of Monteverdi. Consisting of a collection of psalm settings, sacred songs, a sonata, a hymn and a complete Magnificat, each item calls for a different number and type of singer and instrumentalist.The specialist baroque ensemble I Fagiolini are no strangers to the music of Monteverdi, and this wealth of experience and talent was fully evident in this luxurious production. In this performance at Kings Place on 29 September 2023, Director Robert Hollingworth marshalled an extensive and varied cohort of […]
2021-03-29 11:19:00
Super-excellent Gabrieli and RVW on viols: National Centre for Early Music's Awaken festival
Title page of Coryat's Crudities, 1611. Awaken - RVW, Johann Christoph Bach, Gabrieli; Iestyn Davies, Fretwork, I Fagiolini, English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Robert Hollingworth; National Centre for Early Music Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 March 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) From RVW on viols combined with North German 17th century composers to Gabrieli writ large, NCEM's Awaken festivalLast weekend (27 and 28 March 2020) the National Centre for Early Music in York presented Awaken: Music Online for Spring with a variety of concerts from historic venues across York. We caught two of the events, on Saturday counter-tenor Iestyn Davies joined Fretwork for a programme of music by Schein, Scheidt, Johann Christoph Bach, Franz Tunder, Christian Geist and RVW. Then on Sunday evening, Robert Hollingworth conducted I Fagiolini, the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble and former members of the The 24 in Super-excellent a programme of […]
2021-03-14 11:22:02
A Life On-Line: Forgotten Voices from SWAP'ra, 18th century elegance at Conway Hall, Szymanowski in Bristol, a birthday at Wigmore Hall
[…] Alty did. Finally, another quintet JC Bach's Quintet in D which was very, very Mozartian in its feel with some lovely writing for all the instruments, the real interplay of five voices [Conway Hall] On Thursday, violinist Jennifer Pike and pianist Petr Limonov launched a new on-line concert series, The Polyphonic Concert Club with a recital from St George's Bristol. The Polyphonic Concert Club is a project of Polyphonic Films (founded in 2006 by Robert Hollingworth, John La Bouchardiere and Greg Browning) and features weekly recitals from a group of non-London concert halls (Colin Currie from the Stoller Hall and I Fagiolini from the National Centre for Early Music in York coming up next). Pike and Limonov began with Mozart's Violin Sonata in G major K301, a work which revolutionised the genre by treating both instruments equally, rather than the violin playing along with the piano. The two gave a […]
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