'Listen to this because you are a human and all humans are artists. This is art of an exquisite order' The Trombonist (Alan Swain, Bass trombone Welsh National Opera)

Players

:Emily White - tenor and alto sackbut
Guy James - countertenor
Robin Bigwood - harpsichord
Kate Bennet Wadsworth - gamba
Bojan Ciçic - violin and viola
Theresa Caudle - viola
Elinor Chambers - spoken voice and sackbut
Peter Thornton - sackbut
Adam Crighton - bass sackbut

Io Son Ferito, Ahi Lasso by Giovanni Pierlugi da Palestrina c.1525 - 1594 with trombone improvisation based on divisions by Giovanni Bassano 1558 - 1617
sackbut, voice, violas, gamba, harpsichord

O'r Galons by Peter McCarthy 2018
sackbut and drone

Haiku by John Kenny 2015 Text: Brian Nisbet
trombone and voice

Spring in an Unreal World by Emily White 2011. Text by Brian Nisbet.
spoken word, sackbut and gamba,

O Quam tu Pulchra Es by Alessandro Grandi 1586 - 1630.
sackbut and harpsichord

Fantasia by Peter Phillips 1560 or 1561 - 1628.
Harpsichord

Che si Puo Fare? By Barbera Strozzi 1619-1677
sackbut, violin, gamba and harpsichord

Amarilli Mia Bella by Peter Phillips 1560 or 1561 - 1628
harpsichord

Se L'Aura Spira Tutta Vezzosa by Girolamo Frescobaldi 1583 - 1643
virginals, sackbut and violin

Auf Dem Gebirge hat Man ein Geschrei Gehöret by Heinrich Schütz 1585- 1672,
voice, alto sackbut, violas, tenor and bass sackbuts

Sonata Quinta from Sonate Concertate Libro Secondo by Dario Castello (c.1590–c.1630)
violin, sackbut, gamba and harpsichord

Producer Adrian Hunter
Sound Matthew Wadsworth

Recorded at Stapleford Granary, Cambridge, 2022

Thanks to the Robin Schiele Fund