Composer of the Week: Orlando Gibbons

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

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Composer of the Week: Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625): The New Band in Town 1612-1617

The New Band in Town 1612-1617

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

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Gibbons joins the new musical group formed by the Prince of Wales, the future Charles I.

Gibbons - firmly established at the Jacobean Court - joins the new musical group formed by the Prince of Wales, the future Charles I.

Orlando Gibbons’s life throws a light on the political turbulence affecting Britain in the early 17th century. As King James VI and I struggled to establish the concept of British identity, his court was blessed with one of England’s most talented musicians of the time, Orlando Gibbons.

Today, Donald Macleod looks at the new musical group formed by King James’s only surviving son, the Prince of Wales, the future Charles I.	

Fantasia No 1 for Two Trebles					
The Rose Consort of Viols

Nay let me weep 					
Consort of Musicke

William Byrd 
Fair Britain Isle 			
Gérard Lesne, countertenor
Ensemble Orlando Gibbons
Directed by Wieland Kuijken

Fantazia of Four Parts (MB 20/12)   
Laurence Cummings, harpsichord

O God, the king of glory
Oxford Camerata
Jeremy Summerly, director

In Nomine for 5 Viols
Fantasia No. 2 for 3 Viols
L'achéron

Glorious and Powerful God			
See, see the word is incarnate			
Fretwork
His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
Magdalena Consort
Peter Harvey

O Lord, in thy wrath 				
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Conducted by Timothy Brown
 
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Audio Wales & West

Composer of the Week: Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

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Donald Macleod surveys the life and turbulent times of English composer Orlando Gibbons.

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