The delightfully named His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts branched out beyond their usual English specialties in this disc of music from around the European continent, much of it probably intended in some way for the combination of cornetts (ancestors of the similarly named modern instruments) and sagbutts or sackbuts, or Renaissance trombones. The music here was recorded in 1993 and 1995, and performers since then have experiemented with a looser sound, with a larger ensemble including other instruments, in some of these ...
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The delightfully named His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts branched out beyond their usual English specialties in this disc of music from around the European continent, much of it probably intended in some way for the combination of cornetts (ancestors of the similarly named modern instruments) and sagbutts or sackbuts, or Renaissance trombones. The music here was recorded in 1993 and 1995, and performers since then have experiemented with a looser sound, with a larger ensemble including other instruments, in some of these repertories. But if what you're after is what His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts aim to provide -- original rather than modern brasses, clean paying with elegant phrase shapes, total mastery of these difficult instruments (check the vigorous cornett work of Jeremy West in Giovanni Bassano's Vestiva I colli [track 7]) -- Grand Tour remains a hard album to top. The group captures the various ways the sackbut-cornett combination was used in the musical cultures of Italy, Germany, and...
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Biagio Marini; Dario Castello; Francisco Correa de Arrauxo; Francisco de Peñalosa; Giovanni Bassano;... Very Good. In very good packaging. His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts-Grand Tour.