Amavi: Music for Viols & Voices by Michael East Classical Chamber BIS

Amavi: Music for Viols & Voices by Michael East

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BI 2503

Amavi: Music for Viols & Voices by Michael East

Label Catalogue Number:
BIS-2503

Running Time: 01:10:44

Release Date: January 2021
Originally recorded in 2020

Genre:
Classical
Chamber

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Running through this album is a path from despair and sin through revelation, repentance and belief, to life, triumph and finally love. The stations on the way are eight five-part fantasias for viols by Michael East (1580–1648), unusual in that each of them has a Latin title – from Desperavi to Amavi. In his time, East was one of England’s most published composers with seven books of his compositions in print, all of them containing music for viols and voices. The fantasias are here performed by the five members of Chelys Consort of Viols, who together with the singers in Fieri Consort have selected vocal items by East to complement each of the instrumental pieces. Regretting the lack of modern repertoire for this combination the performers have also commissioned a new piece by the composer Jill Jarman. Setting a verse by Sir Henry Wotton, a contemporary of East, Now are my thoughts at peace sums up the journey of the fantasias from Desperavi to Amavi, 400 years after they were written.

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*** Good Album

Jeremie Bigorie - Classica magazine (France) - July/August 2021

“The overall sound made by the Fieri Consort and Chelys Consort of Viols is bliss. The viols glisten with the timbral purity if early-afternoon sunshine, and their phrasing is animated with focus… The Fieri Consort are on top form, too: a lovely blend, though the balance tends to favour the upper voices. There is something about their not quite youthful but not yet fully mature voices that makes this repertoire ring…”

Mark Seow – Gramophone magazine – March 2021

Recommended

“One for the most pleasing discs to have come my way for some months.”

Gary Higginson – MusicWeb-International.com - 2 February 2021

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