Performer: The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble

Glittering Monteverdi from I Fagiolini with the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble at Kings Place, with standout soloists including Nicholas Mulroy.

In their Lammermuir Festival debut, I Fagiolini strike spiritual and musical gold with the Monteverdi Vespers... at least in the first half.

I Fagiolini and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble give a very special performance at Kings Place. 

I Fagiolini's very interesting programme of music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries pulls together a wide range of works, but somehow lacks an ensemble feel. 

While early English Baroque is not an area of music which generally comes to mind when we think of controversial composers, it seems that the scores of composers we now associate with purity and conventionalism had their own streaks of radicalism in their time, political and otherwise, and a fair few were exiled.