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CHELYS CONSORT OF VIOLS - PURCELL FANTASIAS AND IN NOMINES


The complete Purcell fantasias and in nomines, plus selected theatre pieces.

Chelys Consort explores the music’s expressive intimacy with a sensibility that touches our deepest thoughts and emotions - BBC Music Magazine *****

The haunting sound of gut strings has rarely been captured with such beguiling fidelity - The Strad
More here

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​CHELYS CONSORT OF VIOLS & FIERI CONSORT - AMAVI

Michael East's 5-part fantasias, with selected verse anthems and madrigals, concluding with a newly commissioned piece by Jill Jarman.

The overall sound made the Fieri Consort and Chelys Consort of Viols is bliss - Gramophone
 

Full details and audio here

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​MUSICA SECRETA - From Darkness Into Light

The complete Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday, Antoine Brumel

Musica Secreta, Claire Williams - organ, Alison Kinder - bass viol

Their balance, shaping of individual lines, attention to form and structure, and sensitivity to the text and its meanings all permeate the recording - Early Music America


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CHELYS CONSORT OF VIOLS - A Pleasing Melancholy

Dowland's Lachrimae and consort songs
with Emma Kirkby and Jamie Akers


If you're looking for the most beautiful recording of the Lachrimae, this is unquestionably it - Gramophone

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​MUSICA SECRETA - Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter

Motets from a 16th century convent.

Musica Secreta & Celestial Sirens
with Claire Williams - organ; Alison Kinder - bass viol


Winner of the 2016 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society

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​ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS - Exiled


Rose Consort of Viols, the Choir of King's College, Aberdeen and David J Smith

Music by Catholic composers Peter Philips (1560/61-1628) and his younger contemporary, Richard Dering (c.1580-1630).

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​CHELYS CONSORT OF VIOLS - Ayres and Graces

Christopher Simpson's Airs for two treble and two bass viols
with Dan Tidhar - chamber organ and harpsichord
Jamie Akers - theorbo and guitar


Listen to sample tracks ​here
Played with passion, precision, and brilliance -
Early Music Review
**** - The Guardian

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