COLOSSAL BAROQUE
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Orazio Benevoli
MISSA BENEVOLA
The second recording in our series exploring the dazzling multi-choir soundworld of Orazio Benevoli, – a crucial ‘lost’ figure in 17th-century Italian music.
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VICTORIA
TENEBRAE RESPONSORIES
(2024)
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Victoria's 18 Responsories for the Holy Week service of Tenebrae (Shadows). Only four voices but seeming to encompass so much more. How can so little mean so much?
#SingTheScore
For keen singers #SingTheScore is our new YouTube series. One mini-masterwork per show: historical intros from Robert, a few poor quality jokes, then sing along with I Fagiolini.
I Fagiolini has been making short music videos with Polyphonic Films since 2003 and our YouTube channel is full of performances, mini-documentaries, singing tips and music videos. Subscribe and share!
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I Fagiolini is a British solo-voice ensemble directed by Robert Hollingworth. It has released 23 CDs and 5 films including the world premiere CD of the Striggio 40-part mass which won Gramophone & Diapason’s early music awards in 2011. The group is Associate Ensemble at the University of York.
SELECTED REVIEWS
Monteverdi: The Other Vespers
Released by DECCA Classics
July 2017
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“Superbly performed . . . there is plenty of warmth and animation in the superb music-making. I Fagiolini's consort and solo singing are exemplary . . . in such sure hands (and throats) as these, Monteverdi's psalm-settings reach their fullest capacity to enchant and astonish”
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David Vickers / Gramophone
The Full Monteverdi
Cheltenham Music Festival
July 2004
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“Nobody could leave the room without believing they had been privy to some sort of miracle of human endeavour. It was witchcraft.”
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The Daily Telegraph
L’Orfeo
St John’s Smith Square, London
May 2017
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“L’Orfeo, superbly performed by I Fagiolini and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble… was vivid and raw, emotionally intense and musically thrilling. Matthew Long sang Orfeo with pliant tone and urgent expression, as if living every tremor of the musician’s suffering.”
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Fiona Maddocks / The Guardian
Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories
Released by CORO Records
March 2024
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"The impact here is just overwhelming. The solo singers almost never raise their voices... the very restraint of I Fagiolini does the trick here… There are plenty more versions of the music out there but this one creates a very special colour and atmosphere."
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Gramophone
“There is nothing ordinary about a performance by I Fagiolini.”
The Guardian
