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In 1986, Robert Hollingworth founded I Fagiolini – an ensemble now internationally renowned for its innovative and thought-provoking productions: Handel with masks, Purcell with puppets; The Full Monteverdi and Betrayal: a polyphonic crime drama; Tallis in Wonderland, a new way of hearing polyphony with live and recorded voices, and much more.

This playlist, to accompany Continuo’s recent feature with Hollingworth as his ensemble celebrates its 40th anniversary, comprises tracks from twenty I Fagiolini Early Music albums. Discover works by Benevoli and Byrd, Tallis and Tomkins, and much more...

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TRACK LIST

1. Alessandro Grandi Plorabo die ac nocte
2. Andrea Gabrieli Benedictus Dominus Deus Sabaoth
3. Lodovico Grossi O dulcissima
4-5. Orazio Benevoli Missa Benevola: I. Kyrie I; VII. Agnus Dei | with The City Musick
6-7. Tomás Luis de Victoria Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Maundy Thursday: Nocturn II – ‘Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signo’; ‘Judas mercator pessimus’
8. Benevoli Missa Tu es Petrus: II. Glora | with The City Musick
9. Alessandro Striggio Missa Ecco si beato giorno: V. Benedictus
10. D’ogni gratia et d’amor
11. John Wilbye Draw on, sweet night
12. Flora gave me fairest flowers
13. Weep, o mine eyes
14. Henry VIII Pastyme with Good Companye | with The Forbury Consort & Steven Player
15. Anon. Padoana | with The Forbury Consort & Steven Player
16. Greensleeves | with The Forbury Consort & Steven Player
17. Claudio Monteverdi Era l’anima mia, SV 96
18. Thomas Tallis Salvator mundi
19. Johann Sebastian Bach The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: No. 1 (Contrapunctus 1)
20. Monteverdi Beatus vir, SV 268
21. Si dolce è’l tormento, SV 332 | with Barokksolistene
22. T’amo, mia vita, SV 104 | with Barokksolistene
23. Ardo avvampo mi struggo, ardo accorete amici, SV 152
24. Sì ch’io vorrei morire hora ch’io bacio amore, SV 89
25. Anima mia, perdona a chi tè cruda, SV 80a (prima parte)
26. Giovanni Gabrieli Sacri di Giove augei sacre Fenici | with English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
27. Canzon I, ‘La Spiritata’ | with English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble & Steven Devine
28. Thomas Tomkins Musicke divine
29. How great delight
30. (compiled by Thomas Morley) The Lady Oriana
31. Galliard | with David Miller
32. As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending
33-34. Giovanni Croce Mascerate piacevole et ridicolose per il carnevale: ‘Mascarata da lenguazi’; ‘Mascarata eccho da magnifici’
35. William Byrd The Noble Famous Queen | with Anna Crookes & Concordia
36. Liber primus sacrarum cantionum: ‘O quam gloriosum est regum’
37. Attollite portas principes vestras, T8
38. Miserere mihi, Domini, T16
39. Sigismondo D’India Dispietata pietate
40. Mateo Flecha La bomba