NOEL Release date: October 2023 Label: Signum SIGCD386 Featuring a collection of carols both old and new, Armonico creates the perfect soundtrack for those who love an atmosphere at Christmas. Featuring world premiere recordings by Composer Toby Young and the first ever recording of ‘Star Song’ by Jonathan Dove on a Christmas album, there are
Release date: 14th April 2023 Label: Signum SIGCD658 Their tenth album with Signum Classics, Armonico Consort directed by Christopher Monks return with two works by the ‘Forgotten Scarlatti’. Francesco Scarlatti (1666-c1741) was overshadowed by his much more famous brother Alessandro and nephew Domenico. This recording has been made using new editions of the works by Dr Geoffrey Webber, from
Release date: April 2021 Label & Number: Signum SIGCD658 Total time: 60 mins Armonico Consort Christopher Monks Director William Towers Countertenor Armonico Consort return to Signum with a collection of Handel arias, performed by leading counter-tenor William Towers. A noted soloist in both opera and oratorio, the programme is taken from roles which Towers has sung across his career
Release date: Summer 2020 Label & Number: Signum SIGCD632 Total time: 61.35 mins Armonico Consort AC Academy Warwick and AC Academy Scholars Toby Young | Keyboards Christopher Monks | Musical Director Timothy West | Narrator Elin Manahan Thomas | Soloist Anne Denholm | Harp William Towers | Script Jennifer Thorp | Libretto Beowulf is one of
Supersize Polyphony is a celebration of large-scale 16th century choral works featuring epic motets such as Tallis’ Spem in Alium and 40 and 60 part masses by Striggio.
“Supersize Polyphony”, our new recording of monumental choral music for between 40 and 60 voices by Thomas Tallis and Alessandro Striggio, will be available commercially on Signum Records in all good record shops and via iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify and other streaming services in Spring 2019. However, you may also download, complete and return
Soprano Gillian Keith joins Armonico Consort under Christopher Monks for the first release in a three disc series featuring the solo cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Release date: 2002 Total Timings: 53.34 Available from: No longer available Track list: Cantate Domino (Monteverdi) Intonationen: Primo Tono (Gabrieli) Intonationen: Settimo Tono (Gabrieli) Christe Adoramus Te (Monteverdi) Toccata in A minor (Sweelinck) Toccata in C (Sweelinck) Jubilate (Gabrieli) Ground in A minor (Gibbons) Confitebor Tibi (Monteverdi) Voluntary in E minor (Stanley Remember Not Lord (Purcell) Crucifixus
Release date: 28 July 2014 Label & Number: Signum SIGCD386 Total Timings: 57.00 Armonico Consort Director | Christopher Monks Organ | Rupert Jeffcoat Track list: Away in a Manger In Dulci Jubilo O Come All Ye Faithfull Hope finds a way Stille Nacht Mistletoe Once in Royal David’s City O Magnum Mysterium God Rest You Merry Gentleman Ding Dong
A World Premiere Recording, with Dame Emma Kirkby.
Acclaimed by Gramophone Magazine as one of the top five choral releases of 2004.
Release date: 2005 Label & Number: Deux-Elles – DXL 1112 Total Timings: 53.00 Armonico Consort Director | Christopher Monks Track list: Officium Defunctorum – Tomás Luis de Victoria Taedet Animam Meam Introitus Kyrie Eleison Graduale Offertorium Sanctus Agnus Dei Communio Versa Est In Luctum Libera me Kyrie Eleison Versa Est In Luctum – Alfonso Lobo
“A plethora of fine, memorable melodies, most frequently in the arias with subjects of love and reconciliation…”
Christopher Monks – The Times
‘This splendid second volume in the Armonico Consort’s Naked Byrd series continues the punning tradition of a cappella versions of choral pieces by composers who, in the words of the Consort’s artistic director Christopher Monks, “wore their hearts on their sleeves”.’
***** The Independent
A re-recording of some of the carols from our earlier Christmas CDs, including Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, plus other well known and popular works we had not previously recorded.
Works by J.S. Bach, Telemann, A. Scarletti, and Handel
‘The tone is immediately set by Crispian Steele-Perkins’ trilling trumpet on Bach’s “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen”, which also features quite thrilling counterpoints between him and soprano Elin Manahan Thomas.’
**** The Independent
A celebration of music spanning the length and breadth of the British Isles, ‘Greensleeves’ features mesmerising new arrangements of the most beautiful folk music ever written.
The epic tragedy of a queen, a soldier and an illicit love is told through a spectacularly rich array of music.
