Fretwork
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The choir is at its best in the full choral works such as the anthem ‘Turn Our Captivity’ where they impressively shape and unfold the music...this is a significant and welcome addition to Byrd’s... —
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Record Review, 8th October 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Early Music
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Special offer. Davies, Peter Maxwell: Taverner
Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)
Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts...
The opera is full… bitterly ironic juxtapositions, such as the 'holy' chanting from monks heard against the cynical Realpolitik of the negotiations between King and the Cardinal. Making the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, April 2010, Recording of the Month
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Byrd 1588: Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie
RecommendedPsalmes, Sonets & Songs of sadnes and pietie
Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner
The real beauty of these readings...is the singers’ poetic nuancing of the texts, which they articulate with glassy clarity. The members of Fretwork play with characteristic grace, weaving gossamer... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Building a Library, July 2023, Recommended Recording
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Everywhere [Skinner] negotiates an ear-opening path through the changing shapes and densities of Tallis’s ever-fluid formulations; the polyphony is delineated with laser-sharp precision, and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Recording of the Month
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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Fretwork’s approach is generally weightier and more introspective [than Phantasm's] – a mood enhanced by Signum’s closer recorded balance. Fretwork captures the brooding quality of the minor-mode... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th January 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Fretwork highlights Lupo’s various affects: here, the style is light and breezy – buoyed by lithe, dancing rhythms, gracefully articulated; elsewhere, wistful melodies and chromaticisms evoke... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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The Nyman performances are exemplary – crisp and cleanly articulated from Fretwork and dispatched by Davies with a vacant, unrippled purity that is so essential to the music, and must be hard... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem Vol. 2
RecommendedWilliam Byrd to Edmund Hooper: Psalms and Royal Anthems
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, with Silas Wollston (organ)
The underpinning scholarship doesn’t just run to artful reconstructions, teasing missing viol parts out of extant organ sources…The grainy, dark hues of Fretwork’s viols lend extra introductory... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th June 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Nowadays, Fretwork takes a brisker view of the music though not perhaps a crisper one where matters of articulation are concerned. The playing in its new recording, with partly different personnel... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Fretwork takes everything in its expertly burnished stride. Muhly’s provocative vigour is answered by the soulful musings of the Bryars, and a consort respray of Bull’s keyboard In Nomine in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Chamber Choice
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