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Original poster found!
Our London debut recital was in Wigmore Hall on 25th June 1986; and we commissioned an artist – Pomme Hoare – to make a poster and I think it was posted on the London Tube, amongst many other places. I...
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Orlando Gibbons Project is launched
We recently performed a programme of Gibbons, Byrd & Tomkins with The Magdalena Consort in the great Stour Festival, run by Mark Deller. This was the first concert in a project that will see...
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William Blake: The Vision of Albion
Fretwork and William Blake: the Vision of Albion Please support Graham Treacher’s Kickstarter Campaign to bring the world premiere of his dramatic new multi-media work on Blake to Kings Place, London...
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The World Encompassed: Drake’s voyage explored by Fretwork and Orlando Gough ****1 By Imogen Phoebe Webb, 18 June 2016 This performance of The World Encompassed is an enticing concept, blending...
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Fretwork & Stile Antico at the Proms – BachTrack.com
Renowned viol consort Fretwork performing with Stile Antico, one of the most exciting early music vocal consorts around today: this promised to be a special occasion, and it certainly did not...
View ArticleFretwork & Stile Antico at the Proms – Financial Times
There is more to the BBC Proms’ tribute to Shakespeare in his 400th anniversary year than the familiar, heavyweight 19th-century concert works by Berlioz, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. The lunchtime...
View ArticleFretwork & Stile Antico at the Proms – The Guardian
A few words on two groups who deserve more: Stile Antico and Fretwork performed an immaculate Proms Chamber Music lunchtime concert of choral and viol music, from Byrd and Morley to Huw Watkins and...
View Article30th anniversary at Kings Place – musicomh.com
The viol consort Fretwork celebrated its 30th birthday on Friday with an evening of music representing the development of the ensemble’s repertoire across the years. The five current regular members...
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Fretwork at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival
One of the fascinating, entirely coincidental, strands running through the 2015 Vale of Glamorgan Festival is a sense of how strongly – and how exquisitely – the old can resonate within the new. I...
View ArticleNorth American tour – Vancouver
One fondly remembers all the wonderful discs that Fretwork recorded for Virgin in the 1990s, when it was the path-breaking viol consort that grew out of authentic thinking at that time. Finally, here...
View ArticleBBC Music Magazine review the Peerson recording
PEERSON A Treatie of Humane Love: Mottects or Grave Chamber Music I Fagiolini; Fretwork; James Johnstone (organ) Regent REGCD 497 72:53 mins This premiere recording of Martin Peerson’s A Treatie of...
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Fretwork shortlisted for an RPS Award
Fretwork have been shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society award in the ‘Chamber Music & Song’ category. It’s already a huge honour! The winner will be announced at the RPS Award ceremony on...
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We won! It is a huge honour to be awarded an RPS award.
Here we are being presented with the award at a very glitzy ceremony last night in London’s The Brewery. Later we played a few short pieces by Anthony Holborne:
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Five star review for ‘The World Encompassed’ in The Times
Richard Morrison in The Times today (26/5/17) has reviewed our latest release on Signum Classics, officially released at our Wigmore Hall concert with Simon Callow on 23rd June. And he’s given it 5...
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The World Encompassed
Orlando Gough: The World Encompassed Released on 1 June 2017 Music by Orlando Gough, Robert Parsons, John Tavener, Robert White, Picforth and Albert of Venice, describing Francis Drake’s...
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Martin Peerson: Mottects or Grave Chamber Musique
A Treatie of Humane Love Released on 6 February 2017 Martin Peerson’s publication of 1630 for five voices, five viols and organ, with I Fagiolini Regent Records
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Orlando Gibbons: In Chains of Gold
Orlando Gibbons: In Chains of Gold Released on 10 November 2017 Consort verse anthems by Orlando Gibbons, with the Magdalena Consort & His Majesties Sagbutts & Cornetts Signum Classics
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In Chains of Gold is released today
Our latest recording is In Chains of Gold, Orlando Gibbons’s consort anthems, and itis released today. You can find it here: http://amzn.to/2zy2VYk or here: http://bit.ly/2zybout
View ArticleGramophone review ‘In Chains of Gold’
Don’t start playing this disc at the beginning. Skip straight to track 3 and Gibbons’s first In nomine a 5, and listen to the blanched brilliance, the glistening cobweb delicacy of tone from...
View ArticleEarly Music Review praises ‘In Chains of Gold’
This splendid recording of all Orlando Gibbons’ Consort Anthems, the brain-child of the knowledgeable and experienced Bill Hunt and the Orlando Gibbons project, is the first in what promises to be a...
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