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.
