#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.
Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible
Our recording to celebrate the life
and work of Leonardo da Vinci.
“And in shaping corporeal things, the poet is much less able than the painter, and for invisible things less able than the musician.”
Leonardo, Paragone
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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
Striggio: Mass in 40 parts
Released by DECCA Classics
Feb 2011
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“Beautifully performed by I Fagiolini with soloists and countless continuo parts, the polychoral effects are striking… At the end comes Tallis's more famous 40-part "Spem in alium", done here with instruments... a masterpiece.
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Nicholas Kenyon / The Observer
“There is nothing ordinary about a performance by I Fagiolini.”
The Guardian
