In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Vol. 1 - Signum: SIGCD511 - CD or download

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The synergy of the Magdalena Consort, Fretwork and His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts, unveils Orlando Gibbons’s Consort Anthems and In Nomines in all their pious glory and passionate devotion…Fretwork... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Nov 2017
Catalogue No: SIGCD511
Label: Signum
Length: 66 minutes

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Gibbons, O: Behold, thou hast made my days

Work length4:38

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Charles Daniels
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork

Gibbons, O: We praise Thee, O Father

Work length4:59

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Catherine King, Samuel Boden, Eleanor Minney, Simon Gallear, Peter Harvey, Nicholas Todd
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork

Gibbons, O: In Nomine a5 No.1

Work length4:12

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Fretwork

Gibbons, O: This is the Record of John

Work length4:07

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Charles Daniels
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork

Gibbons, O: Great King of Gods

Work length4:46

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Silas Woolston, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey, Jeremy Budd
His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts

Gibbons, O: Do not repine, fair sun part 1

Work length4:43

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Jeremy Budd, Peter Harvey, Samuel Boden
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork

Gibbons, O: Do not repine, fair sun part 2

Work length3:03

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Peter Harvey, Julia Doyle, Jeremy Budd, Samuel Boden, Catherine King
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork

Gibbons, O: In Nomine a5 No.2

Work length4:14

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Fretwork

Gibbons, O: Glorious and powerful God

Work length5:04

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Peter Harvey, Charles Daniels
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork

Gibbons, O: Blessed are all they that fear the Lord

Work length4:41

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Peter Harvey, Greg Skidmore, Nicholas Todd, Kirsty Whatley, Silas Woolston, Samuel Boden, Will Gaunt, Catherine King, Simon Gallear, Eleanor Minney, Jeremy Budd, Charles Daniels
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork

Gibbons, O: O all true faithful hearts

Work length3:47

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Simon Gallear, Silas Woolston, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey, Nicholas Todd, Catherine King, Eleanor Minney
Magdalena Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts

Gibbons, O: Sing unto the Lord

Work length5:25

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Jeremy Budd, Peter Harvey, Charles Daniels, Will Gaunt
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork

Gibbons, O: In Nomine a 5 No. 3

Work length3:46

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Fretwork

Gibbons, O: See, see, the Word is incarnate

Work length5:54

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Simon Gallear, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey, Samuel Boden, Catherine King
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork

Gibbons, O: Lord, grant grace

Work length3:09

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Eleanor Minney, Silas Woolston, Samuel Boden
Magdalena Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Fretwork

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Leading performers of 17th-century music Fretwork, His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts and the Magdalena Consort (directed by Peter Harvey) combine forces under the artistic direction of William Hunt for this first complete recording of the consort anthems of Orlando Gibbons. Gibbons’ music is one of the artistic glories of the first Stuart reign. Amongst his sacred compositions, verse anthems such as This is the record of John and Behold, thou hast made my days are long acknowledged masterpieces, amongst the greatest in all English sacred music, but best known to most in their setting for choir and organ. Here they are presented together with an array of other great anthems, some of them scarcely known, in their more intricate and colourful versions for consort accompaniment.Following the instruction of such contemporary writers as Morley and Caccini, these radical new performances place communication of text at the forefront, seeking to rediscover the dramatic essence of the verse anthem that made it arguably the most effective musical creation of the English Reformation. With the incisive declamatory skill of several of the UK’s leading period performers, they reveal the extraordinary rhetorical and poetic power of this music, as it might have been heard in the Chapel Royal and the private domestic chapels of early 17th century England

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February 2018

The synergy of the Magdalena Consort, Fretwork and His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts, unveils Orlando Gibbons’s Consort Anthems and In Nomines in all their pious glory and passionate devotion…Fretwork shine in the In Nomines, relishing exchanges steeped with the references to Taverner, Ferrabosco and Bull.

January/February 2018

Subtle, seductively supple and sinuous singing and playing breathe vivid life into works we have grown used to hearing in more massive interpretations.

November 2017

If something feels unfamiliar, electric almost in its charge, then it’s down to the tuning, which puts the consort up to the perilous heights of A466…[The Magdalena Consort] matches Fretwork’s authentic tuning with intimate forces, whose upper voices include not only trebles and means but also contratenors, taking lines more usually sung now by altos.

November 2017

The new recording offers a unique collection… very fine contributions all round.

27th October 2017

Thomas Morley's lovely phrase evoking music's ability to link earthly listeners to heavenly contemplation.

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