My Days - Fretwork - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

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

Tracklist

1. Pavan For 6 Viols
2. Galliard For 6 Viols
3. Fantasy No. 1 For 2 Treble Viols
4. Fantasias of 3 Parts: No. 2
5. In Nomine For 4 Viols
6. In Nomine No. 3 For 5 Viols
7. Fantasy No. 1 For 6 Viols
8. Fantasy No. 2 For 6 Viols
9. My Days
10. Fantasy No. 3 For 6 Viols
11. Fantasy No. 4 For 6 Viols
12. Fantasy No. 3 For 2 Treble Viols
13. Fantasias of 3 Parts: No. 3
14. Fantasy No. 5 For 6 Viols
15. Fantasy No. 6 For 6 Viols
16. Go From My Window
17. Behold, Thou Hast Made My Days

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland