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
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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
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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
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
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).
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
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Played with passion, precision, and brilliance - Early Music Review
**** - The Guardian
