His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
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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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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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Special offer. Guerrero - The Battle Mass
& other sacred music
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral & His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, James O’Donnell
These performances show that Guerrero deserves his anniversary celebration —
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
RecommendedDunedin Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, John Butt
[Butt’s] flexible approach to the vexed question of the proportional speeds between duple and triple sections produces some surprisingly languid effects…but a dance-like vitality elsewhere…using... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The 11 hours of music on offer represent both a sizeable portion and a representative sample of Victoria's output....the Missa Ave Maris Stella boasts a particularly fine reading - lucid and... —
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Building a Library, June 2016, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Early Music
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G. Gabrieli: Sacred Symphonies
Ex Cathedra, with His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Concerto Palatino, Jeffrey Skidmore
the performers marvelously project the power, glory and praise of this music. —
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Timothy Roberts: Portraits, Distillations and Soundgames
Jeremy West, Timothy Roberts (harpsichord, piano), Katy Bircher, Andrew Crawford, Gail Hennessy, Hilary Stock, Mike Gingold (alto saxophone), Charles Daniels (tenor), His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
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William Byrd: The Great Service & English Anthems
Stephen Farr (organ), Alamire, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, David Skinner
absolutely marvellous singers and beautiful balance. —
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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Volume 3
‘Ah, His Glory!’: Anthems of Praise, Prayer and Remembrance
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Silas Wollston (organ)
In a nutshell, the transformed vocality, scale and rhetoric of the music-making is far closer to Italianate madrigals than ethereal choral balm. —
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Gabrieli, G: The 16 Canzonas and Sonatas from Sacrae Symphoniae, 1597
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, Timothy Roberts ('moderator')
Giovanni Gabrieli is arguably the earliest composer to write a significant body of instrumental music to a formula which can be said to be truly idiomatic and timelessly palatable. The Sacraesymphoniae... —
