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My Days: Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly | Signum SIGCD897

My Days: Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly

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Label: Signum

Cat No: SIGCD897

Barcode: 0635212089729

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 23rd May 2025

Contents

Artists

Fretwork
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Samuel Boden (tenor)
Hugo Hymas (tenor)
Jimmy Holliday (bass)
Charles Daniels (tenor)
Magdalena Consort

Works

Gibbons, Orlando

Behold, thou hast made my days
Fantasia a 2 no.1
Fantasia a 2 no.2
Fantasia a 3 no.2
Fantasia a 3 no.3
Fantasias (6) a 6, MB31-36
Galliard in G major a 6
Go from my Window
In nomine a 4
In nomine a 5 no.3
Pavan in G major a 6

Muhly, Nico

My Days

Artists

Fretwork
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Samuel Boden (tenor)
Hugo Hymas (tenor)
Jimmy Holliday (bass)
Charles Daniels (tenor)
Magdalena Consort

About

Orlando Gibbons was a genius. We can probably all agree that this term is massively anachronistic. However, justified, I think, in order to establish his music on the same elevated niveau as Purcell or Beethoven or Schubert. While it is difficult to make such analogies when his music is still relatively rarely performed by comparison with these more illustrious names, but Gibbons’ fecundity of imagination, his masterly handling of his material, his emotional depth and maturity, the exquisite turns of phrase, his harmonic assurance, his contrapuntal ease and mastery - all this puts him in the first rank of composers” - Richard Boothby, Fretwork

‘My Days’ is a ritualised memory piece about Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) written for two ensembles whose recordings informed so much of my musical development. I feel like I spend half of my life trying to trick string players to play like Fretwork... so it was with enormous pleasure that I composed this piece.” - Nico Muhly

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