Gibbons on sackbuts

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London's most famous cornett and sackbut ensemble will be performing in a free concert with the BBC Singers this April. His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts feature sackbut players Adam Woolf, Abigail Newman and Stephen Saunders and can be seen in action in a video clip (MPEG, 17MB).

Friday 5 May 2006, 2pm Ticket prices: FREE (subject to availability). Contact BBC Studio Audiences on 020 8576 1227 St Giles' Cripplegate, Fore Street, London A Merrie Noyse BBC Singers Fretwork His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts Peter Phillips conductor Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts join Peter Phillips and the BBC Singers for a live Radio 3 broadcast which celebrates the glories of Jacobean and Restoration music. An opportunity to hear choral and instrumental works, large and small, by Orlando Gibbons and his contempories.
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