Browse: His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts (early music ensemble)
This page lists all recordings performed by His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Philippe Rogier: Music from the Missae Sex His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts & Magnificat, Philip Cave
The Council of Trent would have been pleased: with just two voices per part, and with clear diction and articulation from the members of Magnificat, the texts are generally easy to follow. The... — More…
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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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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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Schütz: Motets and Concertos The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists & His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, John Eliot Gardiner
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