Venetian Coronation 2012

In February 2012 we re-recorded one of our most famous programmes, this time under the slightly revised title of A New Venetian Coronation 1595. Venetian Coronation is without doubt our most enduringly popular programme, but in recent years an increasingly insistent nagging voice had started to ask whether we should be looking at this repertoire afresh, with the benefit of the research undertaken, advances in playing techniques made and new instruments that had become available since our 1980s recording. Recording at Douai Abbey in Berkshire, weaving sessions between the monks’ daily schedule of services, is a complete escape and retreat from modern life.

Photos © Ash Mills