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• Gibbons, Orlando: The Second Service: Evening

Gibbons, Orlando: The Second Service: Evening

(Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) edited and reconstructed by Dr. David Skinner.

It hardly needs saying, but this is fabulous music. These consort reconstructions for 5 viols: (Tr, T, T, B, B) are in the original keys and were prepared for the recording that Fretwork made with the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford (Harmonia Mundi 'With a Merrie Noyse' HMU 907337 - see details below). It has long been recognized that the surviving keyboard part to this service is a reduction of lost consort parts, which may well have been used in the Chapel Royal. The vocal writing is mostly in 5 parts, similar to the great consort verse anthems that we recently published, and, like them, is performable by single voices. The range of the top line is treble ('mean' rather than high), lines II and III are contratenor (high tenor rather than alto), line IV is a low tenor or baritone and line V bass. As in the anthems, there is some divisi writing in vocal lines, which in a chamber performance could be covered by another viol.