BaL 6.10.18 - The works of Orlando Gibbons

[Richard Tarleton]

Yes - they do these "basic/beginners' collection" programmes from time-to-time......Done well, it can be a refreshing change from the regular type of BaL.

There was an excellent one by Tess Knighton on Dowland a few years back.

Only the Red Byrd Keyboard, Songs and Anthems here....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Just a few (4 out of 34 pages from Presto Classical website)

Orlando Gibbons: Fancies for the Viols
Francois Joubert-Caillet (viol)
L’Achéron
Orlando Gibbons: Music for Harpsichord and Virginals
James Johnstone (virginal & harpsichord)
Orlando Gibbons - Harpsichord Works
Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Orlando Gibbons - Complete Keyboard Works
Daniel-Ben Piennaar (piano)
Orlando Gibbons: Tudor Church Music
Philip Ledger (organ)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, London Early Music Group
Orlando Gibbons - With a Merrie Noyse
Sacred Music
Orlando Gibbons: Tudor Church Music (Anthems & Voluntaries)
Hugh Maclean (organ)
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Boris Ord
Orlando Gibbons: Royal Fantasies Of III Parts
Jordi Savall
Orlando Gibbons - Fantasias and Cries
Paul Nicholson (organ), Red Byrd/Fretwork
Fretwork
Gibbons: Choral and Organ Music
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
Gibbons: Church Music
The Choir of King's College Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks & Boris Ord
Gibbons - Hymns and Songs of the Church
The complete Orlando Gibbons melodies as published in 1623, with new realizations and original settings by L’Estrange and Pitts
Tonus Peregrinus
Gibbons: Anthems & Instrumental Music
Jeffrey Thomas (tenor), John Butt (organ)
University of California Chamber Chorus, Berkeley Festival Consort of Viols
Gibbons - Anthems & Complete Organ Works
Robert Woolley (organ)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
Gibbons: Consort And Keyboard Music, Songs And Anthems
Timothy Roberts (organ)
Gibbons: Keyboard Music from Musica Britannica
Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord), Christopher Hogwood (organ), Christopher Hogwood (spinet)

[silvestrione]

Jordi Savall with the viol fantasias a long-time favourite of mine (LP from 1974 still got out and played from time to time).


My other timeless favourite is the Wilcocks/Kings College/Jacobean Consort of Viols/Simon Preston-on-organ version of 'This is the record of John', which would be my choice for sublime art that just carries you away to a better place...Have that on CD now, 'The World of Kings' compilation.


Also still have LP of Hogwood playing the keyboard pieces. One of the organ fantasias also has that special, inimitable Gibbons sublimity.

[BBMmk2]

Ah, this is one to listen too! Remind me!

Dover, that looks a great list! Many thanks!

[Keraulophone]

If you like treble voices, this 2005 release may be to your liking. The label wasn’t very alert to marketing, and it slipped beneath the radar of the major reviewers.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7968519--peace-on-earth

[ardcarp]

Thanks, K ! I wonder if your mention of it here will cause a hasty last-minute re-jig of next Saturday's programme? In any case it's gone onto my Xmas bucket list.

[MickyD]

The vintage L'Oiseau Lyre LP of Hogwood playing the keyboard pieces was re-issued some years ago, and can still be found on Amazon:



The harpsichord, a Ruckers recorded in Ham House, sounds particularly fine.

[MickyD]

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... this one's good, too :

http://amzn.eu/d/a2XoIoi

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Yes indeed...I came across it on a French market stall one day and took a chance on it...a very good investment!

[ardcarp]

Micky D, the pic on the LP cover (#22) appears to be taken in Lyme Regis, where the lamp-posts were designed to reflect the Jurassic/Mary Anning/fossil 'experience'. I don't know of any West Country connection to Gibbons!

[MickyD]

Micky D, the pic on the LP cover (#22) appears to be taken in Lyme Regis, where the lamp-posts were designed to reflect the Jurassic/Mary Anning/fossil 'experience'. I don't know of any West Country connection to Gibbons!

Wow, well spotted! I'm sure there is no connection - this brief collection of re-issues from Explore Records featured some wildly unfitting photos on the covers. It would have been far better to feature the nice stained glass window of Gibbons in Chichester cathedral.

[MickyD]

This is a very pleasing collection:

[doversoul1]

bump.

[Bryn]

The vintage L'Oiseau Lyre LP of Hogwood playing the keyboard pieces was re-issued some years ago, and can still be found on Amazon:



The harpsichord, a Ruckers recorded in Ham House, sounds particularly fine.

ANd on my shelves or in one of my players. I got it after hearing John Tilbury playing some Gibbons on Cafe OTO's Yamaha C3 a couple of years ago. A delightful disc to 'explore'. Strange that amazon.co.uk claim it to be a "White Label" disc. Unfortunately it appears to have quadrupled in price since I got it.

[DracoM]

Well, that was a pretty remarkable BAL, remarkable in that I found myself disagreeing with almost EVERY choice the reviewer made.
Oxford Camerata / Summerley got the choral prize - a combination of voices that Gibbons would never have written for in any liturgical setting. Crikey.

I won't go on.

[doversoul1]

There have been BaLs in a similar format, e.g. Dowland’s works, Vivaldi’s operas, and that excellent Barbara Strozzi survey. They were all very interesting but I can’t say the same about this BaL in that I can’t say I have learned a lot. It sounded to me all about how the recordings sounded to the reviewer but with not very much consideration of why that might be so or what it did to the music. And did the reviewer seriously think that including a piano version in her recommendation necessary? It may be just me but I was very disappointed after being excited about it for nearly two weeks.