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    Fretwork - My Days (2025)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Fretwork - My Days (2025)

    Fretwork - My Days (2025)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:07:00 | 330 Mb
    Genre: Classical

    "Orlando Gibbons was a genius. We can probably all agree that this term is massively anachronistic. However, justified, I think, in order to establish his music on the same elevated niveau as Purcell or Beethoven or Schubert. While it is difficult to make such analogies when his music is still relatively rarely performed by comparison with these more illustrious names, but Gibbons’ fecundity of imagination, his masterly handling of his material, his emotional depth and maturity, the exquisite turns of phrase, his harmonic assurance, his contrapuntal ease and mastery - all this puts him in the first rank of composers" - Richard Boothby. "My Days is a ritualised memory piece about Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) written for two ensembles whose recordings informed so much of my musical development. I feel like I spend half of my life trying to trick string players to play like Fretwork, and vocalists to sing like the Hilliard Ensemble, so it was with enormous pleasure that I composed this piece." - Nico Muhly

    Alamire with Fretwork, David Skinner - Thomas Tallis: Queen Katherine Parr & Songs of Reformation (2017)

    Posted By: Designol
    Alamire with Fretwork, David Skinner - Thomas Tallis: Queen Katherine Parr & Songs of Reformation (2017)

    Thomas Tallis: Queen Katherine Parr & Songs of Reformation (2017)
    Alamire with Fretwork, directed by David Skinner

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 180 Mb | Artwork included
    Classical, Renaissance, Choral | Label: Obsidian | # CD716 | Time: 01:15:36

    English composer Thomas Tallis witnessed dramatic changes of religion under four monarchs, and his career accordingly represents the development of polyphonic church music in Renaissance England. Along with his student and fellow Roman Catholic, William Byrd, Tallis was one of the earliest composers to publish music under royal patent in England, and his works demonstrated the shifting doctrines and styles of liturgy in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. This 2017 Obsidian release features one piece with a text by Henry VIII's sixth and last wife, Katherine Parr, which gives the album its title, though the mix of Roman Catholic and Anglican pieces on the program suggests that "songs of Reformation" may be seen as one-sided. In any case, the performances by the vocal ensemble Alamire and the viol consort Fretwork put the emphasis on Tallis and his varied output, rather than on the theological preferences of royalty. The result is a well-balanced portrait of Tallis, and his choral music is given transparent textures and clear diction by the 14-voice choir, which maintains independence of parts while offering an evenly blended tone.

    Fretwork - English Music for Viols: Jenkins, Lawes, Locke, Purcell [5CDs] (2008)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Fretwork - English Music for Viols: Jenkins, Lawes, Locke, Purcell [5CDs] (2008)

    Fretwork - English Music for Viols: Jenkins, Lawes, Locke, Purcell (2008)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.63 Gb | Total time: 5 h 28 min | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Virgin Classics ‎| 3 95164 2 | Recorded: 1986-1996

    This is a superb set of 5 CDs, covering works for viols by four 17the century English composers: John Jenkins, William Lawes (on 2 CDs), Matthew Locke, and Henry Purcell. It is a pure bliss for Baroque, especially chamber music lovers. The works recorded vary: fantasy, suite, pavan, consort, etc., but all are superbly performed by Fretwork Ensemble for 6 viols, sometimes accompanied by organ, spinet, and archlute. The quality of the recording is excellent: a 2001 remastering of previous various recordings done between 1986 and 1996.

    Fretwork - In Nomine II: Muhly, Parsons, Bull, Baldwin, Ferrabosco, Bryars, Ward, Tye, Purcell (2019)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Fretwork - In Nomine II: Muhly, Parsons, Bull, Baldwin, Ferrabosco, Bryars, Ward, Tye, Purcell (2019)

    Fretwork - In Nomine II: Muhly, Parsons, Bull, Baldwin, Ferrabosco, Bryars, Ward, Tye, Purcell (2019)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 59:50 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Signum Records ‎| SIGCD576 | Recorded: 2018

    John Taverner's accidentally totemic theme is subjected to more wondrous transformations by the likes of Robert Parsons, Henry Purcell and of course Christopher Tye—and inspires new works from Nico Muhly and Gavin Bryars.

    The Purcell Quartet, Fretwork - Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri (2010)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    The Purcell Quartet, Fretwork - Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri (2010)

    The Purcell Quartet, Fretwork - Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri (2010)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 342 Mb | Total time: 78:56 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos | KCHAN 0775 | Recorded: 2009

    …Sopranos Emma Kirkby and Elin Manahan Thomas are excellent throughout…Harvey is a solid, dignified presence elsewhere as well, while tenor Charles Daniels and countertenor Michael Chance are at their eloquent best… Both The Purcell Quartet and Fretwork relish the variegated sonorities afforded by Buxtehude’s score, as well as the word painting, while blending with the voices to effect a homogenous yet multi-timbred sound of great beauty.

    Iestyn Davies, Fretwork - If: Michael Nyman & Henry Purcell (2019)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Iestyn Davies, Fretwork - If: Michael Nyman & Henry Purcell (2019)

    Iestyn Davies, Fretwork - If: Michael Nyman & Henry Purcell (2019)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 67:51 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD586 | Recorded: 2018

    When Michael Nyman started reinventing the English baroque back in the 1980s, one critic described the result as pump- action Purcell. This recording combines these two singular musical styles through the stunning voice of countertenor Iestyn Davies and viol consort Fretwork, serving as the bridge across three centuries. The programme combines bold harmonies, wondrous inventions, and melodies that will haunt your dreams whether from the 17th century or the 21st. Recorded following a concert tour of the programme, the release includes the premiere recording of a new commission from Michael Nyman, Music after a While based upon Purcells song, or more particularly upon its strikingly original bass-line, with its insidious rising chromatics.

    Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner - Byrd 1589 (2023)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner - Byrd 1589 (2023)

    Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner - Byrd 1589 (2023)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 538 Mb | Total time: 122:37 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Inventa Records | # INV1011 | Recorded: 2022

    Following the critically acclaimed album of Byrd’s 1589 collection, Alamire returns with the completion of their survey of the early song collections with the 1589 Collection, in this, the composer’s 400th anniversary year. • Alamire is joined by viol consort Fretwork and director David Skinner. • Byrd’s first song collection was published in 1588. In following year he writes that he had ‘bene encouraged thereby, to take further paines therein, and to make the pertaker thereof, because I would shew my selfe gratefull to thee for thy loue, and desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke.’

    Michael Chance, Fretwork - Alexander Agricola: Chansons (2006)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Michael Chance, Fretwork - Alexander Agricola: Chansons (2006)

    Michael Chance, Fretwork - Alexander Agricola: Chansons (2006)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 364 Mb | Total time: 75:12 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907421 | Recorded: 2005

    lexander Agricola, the quincentenary of whose death fell in 2006, is not over-represented in the catalogue so this disc, then, is very welcome. Fretwork take hold of this frequently unpredictable music (all but one of the pieces are performed in new editions by composer Fabrice Fitch) with confidence. They produce performances of exuberance, proving that what a contemporary of the composer called his 'bizarre and crazy manner', as Fitch notes, can either be subverted or assumed to be, in fact, less crazy than it might appear and give impressive musical results.

    Fretwork - Matthew Locke: The Little Consort (2022)

    Posted By: delpotro
    Fretwork - Matthew Locke: The Little Consort (2022)

    Fretwork - Matthew Locke: The Little Consort (2022)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 371 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 164 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:30
    Classical | Label: Signum Classics

    In November 2022 Fretwork return for the second installment of their cycle of works by Matthew Locke.

    Fretwork - Thomas Lupo: Fantasia (2022)

    Posted By: delpotro
    Fretwork - Thomas Lupo: Fantasia (2022)

    Fretwork - Thomas Lupo: Fantasia (2022)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 328 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 148 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:04
    Classical | Label: Signum Classics

    FANTASIA is Fretwork’s eleventh release with Signum Classics, and explores the court music of tudor Eng- land through the works of Thomas Lupo. A very large quantity of Lupo’s private and intimate viol consort music has survived, and we can marvel at its variety and quality. He wrote for unique combinations of viols in his three-part Fantasies, however the five- and six-part fantasies are his most impressive work, seri- ous and compelling pieces showing a fabulous command of counterpoint.

    Fretwork - Matthew Locke: The Flat Consort (2022)

    Posted By: delpotro
    Fretwork - Matthew Locke: The Flat Consort (2022)

    Fretwork - Matthew Locke: The Flat Consort (2022)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 336 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 158 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:37
    Classical | Label: Signum Classics

    Matthew Locke was born 400 years ago in 1622, and while he is often ranked as one of England’s finest composers, he is still unaccountably neglected: his music may not be as immediately appealing as his immediate successor, Henry Purcell, nor as wide- ranging as William Byrd, yet his forceful musical personality and luxuriant technique place him in the first echelon of English composers, with his works described by Richard Boothby of Fretwork as having a “quixotic, capricious restlessness that is constantly challenging the listener to follow his argument … a thrilling musical ride”. Accompanying Fretwork on continuo for this recording are David Miller (archlute and theorbo) and Silas Wollston (harpsichord).

    Helen Charlston, Emma Walshe, Amy Lyddon, Lucy Cox - An Elizabethan Christmas: Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes (2021)

    Posted By: delpotro
    Helen Charlston, Emma Walshe, Amy Lyddon, Lucy Cox - An Elizabethan Christmas: Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes (2021)

    Helen Charlston, Emma Walshe, Amy Lyddon, Lucy Cox - An Elizabethan Christmas: Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes (2021)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 334 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 165 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:11:27
    Classical, Vocal | Label: Signum Classics

    Viol consort Fretwork and mezzo soprano Helen Charlston explore the more reflective and sombre Christmas celebrations of Elizabethan England, in a collection of works by William Byrd, Anthony Holborne, Orlando Gibbons and Martin Peerson.

    Iestyn Davies & Fretwork - Lamento (2021)

    Posted By: delpotro
    Iestyn Davies & Fretwork - Lamento (2021)

    Iestyn Davies & Fretwork - Lamento (2021)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 285 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:37
    Classical, Vocal | Label: Signum Classics

    Countertenor Iestyn Davies and the viol consort Fretwork present a new recording of works for viol consort and voice, drawn from 17th Century Germany, following their critically praised 2019 album of works by Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell.

    Fretwork - Sublime Discourses: The Complete Instrumental Music of John Milton and Martin Peerson (2011)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Fretwork - Sublime Discourses: The Complete Instrumental Music of John Milton and Martin Peerson (2011)

    Fretwork - Sublime Discourses: The Complete Instrumental Music of John Milton and Martin Peerson (2011)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 311 Mb | Total time: 61:34 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Regent Records | # REGCD341 | Recorded: 2009, 2010

    Fretwork here unveils some obscure but engaging works from the golden age of English consort music by the little-known but accomplished composers Martin Peerson and John Milton, father of the celebrated poet. The programme combines scholarship, performance and recording technology to bring to light some two-dozen forgotten works, from dancing almaines to brooding intricate fantasias.