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English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble:
Fiona Russell	- Cornett
Jamie Savan	- Cornett
Emily White	- Sackbut
Tom Lees	- Sackbut
Adrian France	- Bass Sackbut
Robert Howarth	- Organ

NEW CD RELEASE with I Fagiolini
Andrea Gabrieli – The Madrigal in Venice: Politics, Dialogues and Pastorales
The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble also display high quality, providing some instrumental canzone such as the Canzon La Spiritata by G.Gabrieli, four beautiful diminutions for madrigals composed by Andrea and ornamentation with lavish and bewitching sonority, and the expressive madrigals Felici d’Adria, Asia felice and Passi sparsi.
Giovanni Tasso CD Classics November 2003 (also reprinted in Falstaff Jan 04)

The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble was formed in 1993 by London’s leading young specialists on early brass instruments and has since gone on to become one of the most respected ensembles in their field. They have played at many of the UK’s major music festivals, including Bath, Spitalfields, Warwick & Leamington and York and further afield in France, Israel (twice with the assistance of the British Council) and Canada. They have also made their debut at both the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room in London and been featured on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and BBC Scotland.

Following the success of their first CD, Accendo, which was given ‘5 star’ awards by the BBC Music Magazine, ECSE have been involved in some exciting and diverse recording projects. These have included a live BBC Radio 3 broadcast from St James’s Palace with His Majesty’s Chapel Royal Choir and a world premiere recording with Emma Kirkby and the Armonico Consort of Francesco Scarlatti’s Misserere. The Madrigal in Venice, a collaborative recording with I Fagiolini of Andrea Gabrieli madrigals has also received critical acclaim and a further recording of German Renaissance music for Christmas is due for release later in the year.

Playing instruments that so naturally compliment the human voice, the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble also regularly accompany the country’s leading professional chamber choirs, including I Fagiolini, the Dunedin Consort, Trinity Baroque, His Majesty’s Chapel Royal Choir at St James’s Palace and the Armonico Consort. They have also performed many joint vocal and instrumental programmes with choral societies across Britain, including the magnificent 1610 Vespers of Claudio Monteverdi, a work the group has played literally hundreds of times. In fact they are already have bookings to play the piece in the year 2010, the 400th anniversary of the work!

In addition to their work with ECSE, the members are also regular performers with other leading period instruments groups such as the Gabrieli Consort and Players, English Baroque Soloists, King’s Consort and Tafelmusik, as well as providing music for the plays at the reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe theatre on London’s Bankside.