See, See, The Word is Incarnate: Choral & Instrumental Music by Gibbons, Tomkins & Weelkes

Featuring

Robin Blaze
Andrew Arthur
James Grimwood
Nicholas Mulroy
Newe Vialles
Trinity Hall Chapel Choir, Cambridge

Orpheus Britannicus
Orlando Gibbons
Thomas Tomkins
Thomas Weelkes

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Recording & Production

This album was recorded in the Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge, from August 28-30, 2019.

Performer Biography

Newe Vialles, a viol consort, was launched in 2015 by co-directors Henrik Persson and Caroline Ritchie.

Interpretation

Newe Vialles aims for a performance style that is both vibrant and faithful to the music's rhetoric, engaging with rhythmic flexibility and improvised ornamentation.

Instruments

The album features a 'great dooble bass' viol, a large bass viol, in Orlando Gibbons's Fantasia a 4 in C.

Performer Biography

The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, consists of around twenty-four men and women, mostly undergraduate and graduate members of the College.

Performer Biography

Orpheus Britannicus, a period-instrument ensemble and vocal consort, was founded by Andrew Arthur in 2002 and became 'Ensemble in Residence' at Trinity Hall in 2008.