In Music from the Royal Court, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble presents a wide assortment of sixteenth and seventeenth century pieces in modern adaptations that are as idiomatic for the instruments as they are faithful in spirit to the originals. The pure sonorities, fully voiced harmonies, and clean lines of Renaissance music are perfectly suited ...
John Jenkins, the historian Roger North noted in 1728, wrote "hors(e)loads" of music, so much "that the private music in England was in a great measure supplied by him." Much of it was for the predominant instrumental ensemble of the time, the viol consort, whose repertory had a distinct melancholy tone. Jenkins reproduces this tone on the surface ...
The music of John Jenkins, perhaps England's greatest composer of the middle seventeenth century, is much less well known than Dowland's and Byrd's before him and Purcell's of the century's end. This is because, for those who listen to early music by trying to fit it into a timeline (and we've all been guilty at times), Jenkins has an "in-between" ...
Short Tales for a Viol is an aptly titled collection of English solo viol music of the seventeenth century: it offers 25 short pieces (many under a minute long) that are vivid, virtuosic, and for the most part unusually programmatic. A few are pavans, preludes, or dances. These works offer examples of unusual stringed-instrument techniques such as ...
The novelty of this disc resides in its packaging above all; although the music is quite unfamiliar, there are no booklet notes at all, just a tracklist, some credits, and wallpaper-like background with a design evoking human cells. Discs of early music have sometimes incorporated contemporary music, so the contents of the disc itself aren't so ...
It is hard to imagine how English string consort Phantasm could improve on its prior release, the excellent Avie disc Four Temperaments. Perhaps Phantasm also realized this, for the follow-up, Avie's John Jenkins: Five-Part Consorts, represents a slight shift of gears in approach from Four Temperaments and yet manages to continue the thread of ...
As fine a series of recordings as has been made in the digital era, Peter Holman's The English Orpheus with his Parley of Instruments is a brilliant, moving, and revelatory series of recordings illuminating the greatness of English music between 1600 and 1800. And if the phrase greatness of English music sounds absurd, which in too many ...
Lockerbie Memorial Concert is the third release on composer Gavin Bryars' boutique label GB Records, and is taken from a concert given December 21, 1998, at Westminster Cathedral as an observance of the 10th anniversary of the explosion of Pam Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Likely an act of terrorism, this event claimed 270 lives, one of ...
Seventeenth century English composer John Jenkins wrote hundreds of pieces for various combinations of viols and for a while they constituted the most popular body of work for amateur English musicians to play at home with family and friends. The fantasies, In Nomines, and pavans for a consort of six viols collected here require a level of ...
Percy Grainger was one of the principal architects of the symphonic wind orchestra in modern times, and Chandos' Grainger: Transcriptions for Wind Orchestra is a survey of much of the arrangements Grainger made for wind groups from non-original sources. While the sources may have been non-original, Grainger's totally transformative approach to ...
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