Magdalena Consort reviews
In Chains of Gold
Magdalena Consort; His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts; Fretwork/William Hunt (Signum Classics)
Harvey conducts Gibbons
When composer Thomas Morley urged performers to draw listeners ‘in chains of gold’, he might well have been reviewing this recording. Under the direction of Peter Harvey, the synergy of the Magdalena Consort, Fretwork and His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts, unveils Orlando Gibbons’s Consort Anthems and In Nomines in all their pious glory and passionate devotion.