Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes: See, See the Word is Incarnate
Choral & Instrumental Music by Gibbons, Tomkins & Weelkes
Robin Blaze, James Grimwood, Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Newe Vialles, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort, Andrew Arthur
The general effect is impressive and warmly resonant, though the size of the choir (23 male and female singers) makes for a slight lack of clarity in the complex textures…The great musical treat...
Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes: See, See the Word is Incarnate
Choral & Instrumental Music by Gibbons, Tomkins & Weelkes
Robin Blaze, James Grimwood, Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Newe Vialles, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort, Andrew Arthur
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The general effect is impressive and warmly resonant, though the size of the choir (23 male and female singers) makes for a slight lack of clarity in the complex textures…The great musical treat...
About
In succession to the Tudors, the flourishing court culture of the Stuart royal dynasty fostered one of the greatest periods in the history of British music. Director and organist Andrew Arthur unites his forces in this compelling programme of works by three composers who flourished in the Jacobean period – Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Tomkins – around the theme of the Word of God. The choral items on this disc exemplify a rhetorically-aware sense of what it means to sound the Word enriched with music in order to teach, move and delight.
Contents and tracklist
- Robin Blaze
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Newe Vialles
- Andrew Arthur
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Newe Vialles, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort
- Andrew Arthur
- James Grimwood
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Andrew Arthur
- Newe Vialles
- Andrew Arthur
- James Grimwood
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Andrew Arthur
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Newe Vialles, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort
- Andrew Arthur
- Robin Blaze, Nicholas Mulroy, James Grimwood
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Andrew Arthur
- Newe Vialles
- Andrew Arthur
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Newe Vialles, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort
- Andrew Arthur
- James Grimwood
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Andrew Arthur
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Newe Vialles, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort
- Andrew Arthur
- James Grimwood
- Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort, The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Andrew Arthur
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Newe Vialles, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort
- Andrew Arthur
- James Grimwood
- Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort, The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Andrew Arthur
- Newe Vialles, The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort
- Andrew Arthur
- The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Newe Vialles, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort
- Andrew Arthur
- Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort, The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Newe Vialles, Andrew Arthur
- Andrew Arthur
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2021
The general effect is impressive and warmly resonant, though the size of the choir (23 male and female singers) makes for a slight lack of clarity in the complex textures…The great musical treat on this disc is the playing of the viol consort, Newe Vialles. They are simply brilliant in Gibbons’s Fantasia a 4 and Tomkins’s Fantasia VII a 3.
