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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | 16th Century Music for Viols
The Rose Consort of Viols ‘Precisely balanced, warm-sounding……… on splendid form’. (Gramophone) ‘Fretwork play together beautifully’ (Gramophone) | 
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| |  | Petrucci - Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
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| |  | Birds on Fire17th century Jewish Music for Viols
Jeremy Avis (cantor) Fretwork Although the unconverted Jews had been banished from the Kingdom since 1290, England's musical life between 1550
and 1650 was virtually monopolised by the crypto-Jewish dynasties of the Bassano and Lupo families of composers
and performers.Adding a contemporary echo, the programme includes the first recording of Birds on Fire by Orlando
Gough (born 1953). One of UK's most important composers for ballet, dance and theatre projects, here Gough found
his inspiration in the work of klezmer musicians and in part based his piece on traditional tunes known as 'Kandel's
Hora' and 'Odessa Bulgarish'. Performing on Renaissance and Elizabethan instruments, the members of Fretwork are
joined by cantor Jeremy Avis for a pair of Hebrew liturgical settings penned by Salvatore Rossi (d. 1630).
Orlando Gough (b.1953) was a founder member of the bands The Lost Jockey and Man Jumping. He writes music
mostly for the theatre - operas, plays, dance pieces, music-theatre and directs The Shout, an extraordinary choir of
diverse soloists. “Always the unusual from the viol consort Fretwork. Not content with assembling a programme featuring covertly Jewish composers at the Tudor and Stuart courts, they thread through the tracks 24 klezmer-influenced minutes by the contemporary composer Orlando Gough.
They’re pleasant, but for music with real meat you need the six selections by Thomas Lupo – sophisticated consort pieces teased out by Fretwork’s agile fingers.” The Times, 27th June 2008 **** “compelling and convincing, it's to the credit of Fretwork that they chose to bring this previously lost bit of 16th-century music history into the light. Fretwork is particularly adept at this sort of thing,
leaving us towonder and eagerly await their next project.” Classics Today 10/10 “Birds on Fire… is by Orlando Gough (b1953), a British composer… The music is hauntingly coloured by reference to klezmer tunes, while the second movement grows over a hypnotic ostinato. A memorable disc.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008 ***** “Orlando Gough, best known for his theatre music, composed Birds on Fire in 1997. This is demanding, wonderfully offbeat music inspired by Ashkenazi Klezmers… which Fretwork brings off with a panache that astonishes and delights.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008  BBC Music Magazine
Chamber Choice - August 2008 |
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| |  | I heard a Voice - The Music of the Golden AgeA stunning selection of anthems from the Tudor Times
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge & Fretwork, Stephen Cleobury "I would happily sit in King's College Chapel listening to this choir sing for the rest of my days." The Times “Fatigue seems to haunt this worthy performance. Stephen Cleobury's deliberate tempos tend to dissolve the impact of the text… - and impede any build-up towards cadential climaxes. Fretwork plays elegantly, but response to the text only listlessly.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2007 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Michael Chance (counter tenor) Fretwork | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Cries of London
Theatre of Voices & Fretwork, Paul Hillier "Theatre of Voices produce the kind of soft-grained and angelic choral sound I
could listen to until the Book with Seven Seals is opened."
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| | | The Cries of London
Theatre of Voices & Fretwork, Paul Hillier "Theatre of Voices enters infectiously into the extrovert spirit of the pieces and Fretwork's elegantly expressive playing of Gibbons and Dering fantasias provides an effectively contrasted touch of sophistication." The Daily Telegraph | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | J. S. Bach - Alio modoPassacaglia & other keyboard works transcribed for viols
Bach, J S: | Musical Offering, BWV1079: Ricercar a 6 Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV582 Fantasia in G major, BWV572 Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 22 in B flat minor, BWV867 Chorale Prelude BWV686 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir' Fugue in E flat major, BWV552/2 'St Anne' Christe, aller Welt (Riemenschneider) Chorale Prelude BWV671 'Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist' Chorale Prelude BWV678 'Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot' Chorale Prelude BWV680 'Wir glauben all an einen Gott' ('Giant Fugue') Chorale Prelude BWV684 'Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam' Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 11 in F major, BWV880 Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 16 in G minor, BWV885 Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 4 in C sharp minor, BWV849 Chorale Prelude BWV672 'Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit' Fughetta super 'Dies sind die heilgen zehen Gebot', BWV679 |
“The world's leading viol consort”
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| |  | Chapter 12 - Baroque England (1650-1760)Works by Byrd, Dowland, Purcell, Handel & Tallis
Emma Kirkby, Fretwork, Andreas Scholl, Andreas Martin, Richard Egarr, London Baroque, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra/McGegan, Rosemary Joshua, Gerald Finley, Clare College Chapel Choir, Timothy Brown, OAE/Jacobs, Lynne Dawson, Les Arts Florissants/Christie, Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe, Alfred Deller, Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier & The King's Noyse/David Douglass | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Ludwig Senfl - Im MaienLieder & Consort Music
Charles Daniels (tenor) Fretwork | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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