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BBC Proms: 2016: Proms Chamber Music

BBC Proms: 2016: Proms Chamber Music: Part 5: PCM 05: Fretwork and Stile Antico

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Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

Proms Chamber Music 1: Thomas Tallis

Part 5 Part 5: PCM 05: Fretwork and Stile Antico

2016

PCM 05: Fretwork and Stile Antico

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Fretwork and Stile Antico contrast music of Shakespeare's contemporaries with new settings

Live at Cadogan Hall, viol consort Fretwork and vocal ensemble Stile Antico perform music by Byrd, Morley, Gibbons and Wilbye, and contemporary works by Huw Watkins and Nico Muhly.

Live at BBC Proms: Viol consort Fretwork and vocal ensemble Stile Antico celebrate the Shakespeare anniversary, contrasting music of his contemporaries Byrd, Morley, Gibbons, Ramsey, Tomkins, Johnson and Wilbye, with new settings by Huw Watkins and Nico Muhly. 

Live from Cadogan Hall, London.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Morley: It was a lover and his lass
Byrd: O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
Byrd: Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?
Huw Watkins: The Phoenix and the Turtle 
Byrd: Fantasia a 5, Two parts in one in the fourth above
Tomkins: Be strong and of a good courage 
Ramsey: Sleep, fleshly birth
Byrd: Browning a 5, 'The leaves be green' 
Johnson: Full fathom five 
Nico Muhly: Gentle sleep 
Gibbons: In nomine No. 1 
Wilbye: Draw on, sweet night

Stile Antico
Fretwork.

BBC Proms: 2016

Proms Chamber Music

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