recordings
J. S. Bach: The Goldberg Variations (2011)
Sublime Discourses (2010)
Taverner by Peter Maxwell Davies (2009)
Purcell: Complete Fantazias (2009)
River Mouth Echoes (2008)
Birds on Fire (2008)
Agricola: Chansons (2006)
The Cries of London (2006)
Bach: Alio modo (2005)
William Byrd: Consort Songs (2005)
With a Merrie Noyse (2003)
Im Maien (2003)
Above the Stars (2003)
The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 (2002)
Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (2002)
The Hidden Face (2002)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (2001)
Celestiall Witchcraft (1999)
Gavin Bryars (1998)
George Benjamin (1997)
Sit Fast (1997)
The Mirrour and Wonder of his Age (1996)
Matthew Locke (1996)
Hosanna to the Son of David (1995)
Concord is conquer’d (1995)
Henry Purcell (1995)
The English Viol (1994)
William Byrd (1994)
Time will pronounce (1993)
A Play of Passion (1992)
For ye violls (1991)
John Dowland (1990)
Go nightly cares (1990)
Orlando Gibbons (1989)
Heart’s Ease (1988)
In Nomine (1987)
Orlando Gibbons
Fantasias & ‘The Cries of London’
Released on 30th August 1989
…the sheer virtuosity of both Gibbons and Fretwork are little short of riveting.
Hi-Fi News and Record Review
Fretwork’s recording…is, as we have come to expect, performed with an admirable mixture of meticulousness and verve.
Gramophone
The standards they set in earlier recordings prevail again here: affection and respect for the music, a mixture of delicacy and robustness in the viol tone, variety of phrasing and illuminating voicing of textures: all are present in these performances. In the best English tradition, virtuosity is made to serve the music.
Gramophone
Catalogue number:
Virgin Classics VC 5 45144 2