My Days Fretwork

• Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625): Pavan and Galliard for 6 Viols:
• 1 Gibbons: Pavan and Galliard for 6 Viols: I. Pavan 03:25
• 2 Gibbons: Pavan and Galliard for 6 Viols: II. Galliard 02:29
• Fantasias for 2 Treble Viols:
• 3 Gibbons: Fantasias for 2 Treble Viols: No. 1 02:17
• Fantasias of 3 Parts:
• 4 Gibbons: Fantasias of 3 Parts: No. 2 02:49
• In Nomine for 4 Viols:
• 5 Gibbons: In Nomine for 4 Viols 02:41
• In Nomine for 5 Viols:
• 6 Gibbons: In Nomine for 5 Viols: No. 3 03:26
• Fantasias for 6 Viols:
• 7 Gibbons: Fantasias for 6 Viols: No. 1 03:13
• 8 Gibbons: Fantasias for 6 Viols: No. 2 03:22
• Nico Muhly (b. 1981): My Days:
• 9 Muhly: My Days 15:54
• Orlando Gibbons: Fantasias for 6 Viols:
• 10 Gibbons: Fantasias for 6 Viols: No. 3 03:04
• 11 Gibbons: Fantasias for 6 Viols: No. 4 02:51
• Fantasias for 2 Treble Viols:
• 12 Gibbons: Fantasias for 2 Treble Viols: No. 3 03:07
• Fantasias of 3 Parts:
• 13 Gibbons: Fantasias of 3 Parts: No. 3 02:15
• Fantasias for 6 Viols:
• 14 Gibbons: Fantasias for 6 Viols: No. 5 02:58
• 15 Gibbons: Fantasias for 6 Viols: No. 6 03:24
• Go from my window:
• 16 Gibbons: Go from my window 05:07
• Behold, thou hast made my days:
• 17 Gibbons: Behold, thou hast made my days 04:38
• Total Runtime 01:07:00

Info for My Days

"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. "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, and vocalists to sing like the Hilliard Ensemble, so it was with enormous pleasure that I composed this piece." - Nico Muhly

Fretwork

Fretwork
Few other ensembles can match the range of Fretwork’s repertory, spanning as it does the first printed music of 1501 in Venice, to music commissioned by the group this year. Their recordings of arrangements of J. S. Bach have won particular praise, but they have recently issued a disc containing music by Grieg, Debussy, Shostakovitch, Warlock & Britten. This extraordinary breadth of music has taken them all over the world in the 25 years since their debut, and their recordings of the classic English viol repertory – Purcell, Gibbons, Lawes & Byrd – have become the benchmark by which others are judged. Their 2009 recording of the Purcell Fantazias won the Gramophone Award for Baroque Chamber Music.

The consistently high standards they have achieved have brought music old and new to audiences hitherto unfamiliar with the inspiring sound-world of the viol.

Booklet for My Days