The World Encompassed - by Orlando Gough
Fretwork | Simon Callow (Narration)
Signum Classics; ASIN: B06XWC5R63
During his journey to circumnavigate the globe Sir Francis Drake took four viol players with him, who played both for his devotions and to the native peoples around the world that they encountered. Fretwork have commissioned British composer Orlando Gough to recreate this remarkable journey in sound, in a work for viol consort that combines music from 16th century England with the sounds that these musicians would have heard and perhaps tried to recreate on their journey from the rebab and the gamelan to the mesmerising chanting of the Native Americans. The result is a musical narrative of one of the most significant achievements of the English golden age and an evocation of the earliest musical encounters between east and west. This premiere recording is interspersed with narration from The World Encompassed, one of the first literary accounts of the journey, read by Simon Callow.
“No group play the viol repertoire with more flair and feeling than Fretwork.” The Times
Fretwork | Simon Callow (Narration)
Signum Classics; ASIN: B06XWC5R63
During his journey to circumnavigate the globe Sir Francis Drake took four viol players with him, who played both for his devotions and to the native peoples around the world that they encountered. Fretwork have commissioned British composer Orlando Gough to recreate this remarkable journey in sound, in a work for viol consort that combines music from 16th century England with the sounds that these musicians would have heard and perhaps tried to recreate on their journey from the rebab and the gamelan to the mesmerising chanting of the Native Americans. The result is a musical narrative of one of the most significant achievements of the English golden age and an evocation of the earliest musical encounters between east and west. This premiere recording is interspersed with narration from The World Encompassed, one of the first literary accounts of the journey, read by Simon Callow.
“No group play the viol repertoire with more flair and feeling than Fretwork.” The Times