Musica Secreta
-
Antoine Brumel: From Darkness Into Light
The complete Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday
Musica Secreta
This performance imagines them being sung in a 16th-century nunnery, so Brumel’s original low-voice scoring is transposed for female singers, with an organ and a viol providing lower parts.... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Early Music
-
-
The Mass sounds both natural and beautiful; indeed the whole piece is an aural feast. The last item is Rore's Regina caeli laetare, Frances Kelly's harp weaving round the soprano line. Magical. —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, Editor's Choice
-
-
A Golden Treasury of Ancient
Brian Carlick, Eric Moulder, John Hanchet, Günther Körber, Robin Canter, James Wood, Melvyn Tan, The York Waits, Alan Hacker, Richard Burnett, Frances Eustace, Andrew Watts, Paul Nicholson, Jennifer Ward Clarke, The Broadside Band, The Yorke Waits, Jonathan Impett, The Clarion Ensemble, The London...
-
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
A Golden Treasury of Renaissance Music
Musica Antiqua of London, Fretwork, The York Waits, Musica Secreta, Paula Chateauneuf, Suzie Le Blanc, New London Chamber Choir, Frances Kelly, Nigel North
James Wood
-
Extraordinarily worldly, even sensual, settings, ravishingly declaimed —
-
Whether singing solo or as an ensemble, the ladies of Musica Secreta sound beautiful, the bright sopranos of Deborah Roberts and Tessa Bonner complemented by the throaty alto of Caroline Trevor. —
-
Pleasures and Treasures
50 tracks from 50 years
Alison Stephens, Sue Mossop, Richard Burnett, Jing Ying Soloists, Blue Note Jazz Band, Monks of Prinknash Abbey, York Waits (early music ensemble), Sound In Brass Handbells, Jo Freya, Salomon Quartet, Gef Lucina, Best Of Brass, Broadside Band, Steve Tilston, Nigel Eaton, Fairer Sax, Ian Partridge...
-
Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter
Princess, Nun and Musician: Motets from a 16th century convent
Musica Secreta & Celestial Sirens
Their hypnotic polyphony and static harmonies evoke a world of intense spiritual contemplation, and despite fleeting echoes of Josquin…the quirky use of dissonance suggests a composer outside... —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide
