5 stars for Jenkins from Planet Hugill
John Jenkins complete four-part consort music; Fretwork; Signum Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill. 19 Mar 2018 Star rating: 5.0 Mellifluous, engaging with a lovely rhythmic vitality, the complete...
View ArticleGramophone review Jenkins
It may seem unfortunate for a two-CD set to total only 83 minutes, but then this is John Jenkins’s ‘complete four-part consort music’, so that’s how it has to be. Thankfully it sells for the price of a...
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Orlando Gibbons in Canterbury Cathedral
It was wonderful to play Orlando Gibbons’s music in the place where he is buried; and then to see the beautiful memorial to him set up after he died so suddenly in 1625. Here is the poignant autopsy:...
View ArticleThe Times reviews our Ryedale Festival performance
The Times reviewed the ‘triple concert’ at Castle Howard, part of the Ryedale Festival. Here’s what they had to say about our concert: “I started in the Chapel where, matching the recusant spirit of...
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The Observer hails the new Fretwork recording
The British countertenor Iestyn Davies has always extended the expected boundaries of his voice type, singing contemporary works written for him by Nico Muhly and Thomas Adès and now Michael Nyman. The...
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If: Michael Nyman, Henry Purcell
If: Michael Nyman, Henry Purcell Released on 22 March 2019 When Michael Nyman started reinventing the English baroque back in the 1980s, one critic described the result as “pump-action Purcell.”...
View Article“…strange and wonderful…” The Gramophone review ‘If’
Last year the American countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo gave us a recital pairing music by Philip Glass and Handel (Decca). Now the British countertenor Iestyn Davies takes his turn straddling the...
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In Nomine II
In Nomine II Released on 1 November 2019 Over thirty years ago, Fretwork made its first recording – well, technically speaking it was the second album to be recorded, but the first to be released –...
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‘Matchless’– The Guardian’s review of ‘In Nomine II’
‘Fretwork’s In Nomine II (Signum Classics), [is] a rewarding potpourri of instrumental consort music from the 16th and 17th centuries by Robert Parsons, John Bull, Christopher Tye, Henry Purcell and...
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