His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
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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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1615 Gabrieli in Venice
His Majesty's Sackbutts & Cornetts & The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
The choral sound is candid and transparent, the lower, adult voices sensitively balanced so as not to swamp the delicate timbre of the boy choristers. His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts offer... — More…
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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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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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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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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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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... — More…
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Schütz: Motets and Concertos
The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists & His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, John Eliot Gardiner
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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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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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