DIRECTOR

ROBERT HOLLINGWORTH

LATEST RELEASE

VICTORIA: TENEBRAE RESPONSORIES

Victoria's 18 Responsories for the Holy Week service of Tenebrae (Shadows). Only four voices but seeming to encompass so much more. How can so little mean so much?  


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BENEVOLI PROJECT

Orazio Benevoli  

MASS FOR FOUR CHOIRS

World premiere recording of Roman 17th century four-choir mass based on Palestrina's famous 'Tu es Petrus'.  First in a series of three recordings on CORO. 

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RELEASED 09/2023

Striggio - Mass in 40 Parts

Originally released on Decca in 2011 and winner of 2011 Gramophone Early Music Award and Diapson d'Or de l'Année. Now remastered for re-release 

on CORO. 


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RECORDINGS

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MONTEVERDI:

The Other Vespers

DECCA / 2017

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AMUSE-BOUCHE

French Choral Delicacies

DECCA / 2016

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1612

Italian Vespers

DECCA / 2012

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#SingTheScore

For keen singers #SingTheScore is our new YouTube series. One mini-masterwork per show: historical intros from Robert, a few poor quality jokes, then sing along with I Fagiolini.


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I Fagiolini is a British solo-voice ensemble directed by Robert Hollingworth.  It has released 23 CDs and 5 films including the world premiere CD of the Striggio 40-part mass which won Gramophone & Diapason’s early music awards in 2011.  The group is Associate Ensemble at the University of York.

SELECTED REVIEWS

Monteverdi: The Other Vespers

Released by DECCA Classics

July 2017

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“Superbly performed . . . there is plenty of warmth and animation in the superb music-making. I Fagiolini's consort and solo singing are exemplary . . . in such sure hands (and throats) as these, Monteverdi's psalm-settings reach their fullest capacity to enchant and astonish”

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David Vickers / Gramophone

The Full Monteverdi

Cheltenham Music Festival 

July 2004

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“Nobody could leave the room without believing they had been privy to some sort of miracle of human endeavour. It was witchcraft.”

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The Daily Telegraph

L’Orfeo

St John’s Smith Square, London

May 2017

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“L’Orfeo, superbly performed by I Fagiolini and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble… was vivid and raw, emotionally intense and musically thrilling. Matthew Long sang Orfeo with pliant tone and urgent expression, as if living every tremor of the musician’s suffering.”

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Fiona Maddocks / The Guardian

Striggio: Mass in 40 parts

Released by DECCA Classics

Feb 2011

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“Beautifully performed by I Fagiolini with soloists and countless continuo parts, the polychoral effects are striking… At the end comes Tallis's more famous 40-part "Spem in alium", done here with instruments... a masterpiece.

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Nicholas Kenyon / The Observer

“There is nothing ordinary about a performance by I Fagiolini.” 

The Guardian

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