His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
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New. William Byrd: The Great Service & English Anthems
Stephen Farr (organ)
Alamire, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, David Skinner
absolutely marvellous singers and beautiful balance. — More…
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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... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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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... — More…
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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... — More…
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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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For His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
English music from Henry VIII to Charles II
His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
These players demonstrate perfectly how a balance of scholarship and expert period performance can restore familiar music to such radiant good health that we wonder how it ever survived before — More…
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The Art of the Countertenor - Michael Chance
Works by Vivaldi, Bach, Purcell & Handel
Michael Chance (countertenor)
English Chamber Orchestra & English Concert, John Nelson & Trevor Pinnock
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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 — More…
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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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Hieronymus Praetorius: Motets in 8, 10, 12, 16 & 20 Parts
Stephen Farr (organ)
Alamire, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, David Skinner
The largest motet, Decantabat populus a 20 is a text about singing praises. Despite grand forces and wide vocal ranges, the textures avoid heaviness through use of word-rhythms and sprightly... — More…
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Capriccio stravagante Volume 1
Robert Woolley (harpsichord/organ)
His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Purcell Quartet
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