27 Mar 2006
Gibbons on sackbuts
Posted by David Read.
London’s most famous cornett and sackbut ensemble will be performing in a free concert with the BBC Singers this April. His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts feature sackbut players Adam Woolf, Abigail Newman and Stephen Saunders and can be seen in action in a video clip (MPEG, 17MB).
Friday 5 May 2006, 2pm
Ticket prices: FREE (subject to availability). Contact BBC Studio Audiences on 020 8576 1227
St Giles’ Cripplegate, Fore Street, LondonA Merrie Noyse
BBC Singers
Fretwork
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Peter Phillips conductorFretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts join Peter Phillips and the BBC Singers for a live Radio 3 broadcast which celebrates the glories of Jacobean and Restoration music. An opportunity to hear choral and instrumental works, large and small, by Orlando Gibbons and his contempories.
