Tune thy Musicke to Thy Hart: Tudor & Jacobean music for private devotion

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a varied treasure trove of seldom heard but extremely affecting music, nicely sung and spliced together with some darkly-glittering string In Nomines played by Fretwork...[They] easily persuade... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Feb 2012
Catalogue No: HMU807554
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 64 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

May 2012

Editor's Choice

Tomkins: O Praise the Lord, All Ye Heathen

Work length3:44

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Amner: O ye little flock

Work length7:05

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Taverner: In nomine a 4

Work length2:03

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Ramsey, R: How are the mighty fall’n: Gloria

Work length6:29

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Tallis: Purge me, O Lord

Work length1:51

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Amner: A stranger here: Sanctus & Benedictus

Work length5:04

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Parsons, R: In nomine a 4 No. 1

Work length2:35

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Browne, J: Jesu, mercy, how may this be?: Agnus Dei

Work length10:03

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Parsons, R: In nomine a 4 No. 2

Work length2:18

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Croce, G: From profound centre of my heart

Work length4:36

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Dowland: I shame at my unworthiness

Work length2:20

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Campion: Never weather-beaten sail

Work length2:38

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Byrd: Why do I use my paper, inke and penne?

Work length2:29

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Tomkins: When David Heard

Work length5:02

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Gibbons, O: See, see, the Word is incarnate

Work length6:18

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Stile Antico (joined by Fretwork) explore long-neglected repertory: the wealth of Tudor and Jacobean sacred music written for domestic devotion, rather than for church worship. Culled from collections intended for use in private homes, these pieces by Tomkins, Campion, Byrd, Tallis, Dowland, Gibbons and others, offer a unique insight into the turbulent religious climate of the time and the thriving musical culture at its heart.

Stile Antico is now established as one of the most original and exciting voices in its field. Much in demand in concert, the group performs regularly throughout Europe and North America. Their recordings are the best-sellers on the harmonia mundi label, winning awards including the Diapason d’or de l’année and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, and have twice attracted GRAMMY nominations. Their release Song of Songs won the 2009 Gramophone Award for Early Music and reached the top of the US Classical Chart.

Few ensembles can match the breadth of Fretwork’s repertoire, which ranges from the first printed collection published in 1501 in Venice to music commissioned by the group this year. In the 25 years since its debut, Fretwork’s pioneering work has taken its members all over the world. Their consistently high standards have brought music old and new to audiences hitherto unfamiliar with the inspiring sound-world of the viol.

Fretwork’s acclaimed recordings of the classic English viol repertory – Purcell, Gibbons, Lawes, Byrd – have become the benchmark by which other performances are measured. Its arrangements of the music of J. S. Bach have garnered particular praise. Released in 2009, the harmonia mundi recording of Purcell’s Complete Fantazias won the Gramophone Award for Baroque Chamber Music.

Reviews

April 2012

a varied treasure trove of seldom heard but extremely affecting music, nicely sung and spliced together with some darkly-glittering string In Nomines played by Fretwork...[They] easily persuade us that there is such a thing as beautiful simplicity.

May 2012

Stile Antico's sleek tuning and supple attention to words, and the studio recording, intimate but not claustrophobic, do bring a carefully plotted span (over 120 years) of sacred styles into our listening rooms with rare success.

12th February 2012

The beautifully blended voices of Stile Antico give this music with all the intensity that its emotional content merits. But then every work here fairly burns itself on the heart.

29th January 2012

We are, perhaps, in a wood-panelled Elizabethan hall, where in the early 17th century the family of a large house gather for their private prayer. Voices and viols mix in harmony, ranging from the familiar simplicity of Thomas Campion's "Never weather-beaten sail" to the elaborate verse anthem by Orlando Gibbons's "See, see the word is incarnate"...Another triumph

18th February 2012

the performances are wonderfully fresh, revelling in the harmonic false relations and affectingly attentive to the import of the words.

Classical Music 2nd June 2012

The group's singing is, as ever, breathtakingly beautiful

20th April 2012

another winner from the 12-voice ensemble Stile Antico... The two pieces by Thomas Tomkins, O praise the Lord and When David heard, epitomise the expressive richness of the style. But the simplicity of Campion’s Never weather-beaten sail is also gorgeous, and there’s an unexpected rocking figure, John Browne’s much earlier Jesu, mercy, how may this be?, that becomes a real earworm. The contributions of the viol consort Fretwork are equally fine

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When David Heard (Thomas Tomkins)

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Never Weather-Beaten Sail (Thomas Campion)

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