Hilliard Ensemble

The Hilliard Ensemble is one of the world's foremost male a capella
ensembles. Their repertory ranges from the medieval to the modern, to which they
bring a unique sound honed by years of performing together. The ensemble
consists of David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven
Harrold (tenor), and Gordon Jones (baritone), a basic constituency which formed
in 2001. The core of the group's repertory is drawn from the ample volume of
scores for four-voice ATTB ensemble, a disposition which is sometimes expanded
for certain programs and especially on the records from the 1980s. The ensemble
takes a cooperative approach to program planning, while the undirected
performances allow a spontaneity which is sometimes difficult to achieve in more
closely controlled environments.

Based in the UK, the ensemble's historical contribution to the recorded
discography of early music has been substantial, as evidenced by this page,
where several recordings have been among the most influential for the repertory.
Their name is taken from the English miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard
(c.1537-1619), and is perhaps not incidentally related to that of former member
Paul Hillier, who provided much of the early program planning before moving to
the US. The list of singers who have been members or performed with the group in
the past reads like a who's who of English male voices, including Paul Agnew,
David Beavan, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Paul Elliott, Michael George,
David Gould, Robert Jones, Leigh Nixon, Mark Padmore, John Potter, and Ashley
Stafford.

This document is currently under construction. Please help me by providing
additional information, or correcting any mistakes. Thank you.

Todd M. McComb
[email-masked]

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Discography

(chronological, by recording date)

17th & 18th Century Songs & Catches

Recorded: 70s?
Saga Classics 3332

The Romantic Englishman

Recorded 8/77
Meridian 77002 (LP)

Popular Music from the Time of Henry VIII

Recorded: 1977; Also: Saga 2257
Saga Classics
5444

Songs for a Tudor King

Fayrfax / Browne / Cornysh, etc.
Recorded: 1978 ; Also: Saga
3378
Saga
Classics 5461

Power: Masses & Motets

Recorded: 9/80 ; Previously: EMI Reflexe 63064
Virgin Edition
61345

The Merry Companions

Songs and Catches from Purcell to Arne
Recorded: 1981?
Saga
Classics 5477

Isaac: Sacred & Secular Works

w/ Kees Boeke Consort
Recorded: 12/81 ; Previously: HMV 1466921
(LP)
EMI
Reflexe 63063

De Monte: Sacred & Secular Works

w/ Kees Boeke Consort
Recorded: 12/81 ; Previously: HMV 1466931
(LP)
EMI
Reflexe 63428

Medieval English Music - Anon 14th & 15th centuries

Recorded: 9/82
Harmonia Mundi musique
d'abord 1901106

Rore: Le Vergine

Recorded: 9/82
Harmonia Mundi musique
d'abord 1901107

Dunstable: Motets

Recorded: 9/82 ; Previously: EMI Reflexe 49002
Virgin Edition
61342

Josquin: Motets and Chansons

Recorded: 2/83 ; Previously: EMI Reflexe 49209 / Angel S-38040
Virgin Veritas Edition
61302

Marenzio: Madrigals

Recorded: 1983
UEA Recordings 82126 (LP)

Schütz: St. Matthew Passion

Recorded: 9/83 ; Previously: Angel DS-38167 (LP)
EMI Reflexe
49200

Lassus: Motets, Stabat Mater, Chansons

Recorded: 9/83 ; Previously: EMI Reflexe 49210 / Angel DS-38156
(LP)
Virgin
Veritas Edition 61166

Lassus: Penitential Psalms

w/ Kees Boeke Consort
Recorded: ? ; Previously: EMI Reflexe 49211
(1986)
Virgin
Edition 61216 (2 CDs)

Byrd: Masses

Recorded: 10/83
EMI Reflexe
63441

J.S. Bach: Motets

w/ Knabenchor Hannover & London Baroque
Recorded: 7/84 ;
Previously: Angel DFO-38241 (LP)
EMI Reflexe 49204

Ockeghem: Requiem / Missa Mi-Mi

Recorded: 9/84 ; Previously EMI Reflexe 49213
Virgin Veritas Edition
61219

The Singing Club

Ravenscroft / Lawes / Purcell / Arne
Recorded: 9/84
Harmonia
Mundi 901153

Sumer is Icumen in

Medieval English Songs
Recorded: 9/84
Harmonia Mundi
901154

Palestrina: Canticum canticorum / Motets Book IV / Spiritual Madrigals

Recorded: 11/84 ; Previously: EMI Reflexe 49010
Virgin Veritas Edition
61168

Schütz: Schwanengesang - Opus Ultimum

Recorded: 1985? ; Previously: EMI Reflexe 49214
Virgin Veritas Edition
61306 (2 CDs)

Dufay: Missa L'homme armé / Motets

Recorded: 1/86 ; Previously: EMI Reflexe 70 426 (LP)
EMI Reflexe
47628

Byrd: Songs of Sundrie Natures

w/ London Baroque
Recorded: 3/86
EMI Reflexe
47961

Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah

Lamentations, Mass for 4 voices, Motets
Recorded: 9/86
ECM New Series
1341

Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame

w/ Le Lai de la Fonteinne & Ma fin est mon commencement
Recorded:
3/87 & 2/89
Hyperion 66358

Sacred and Secular Music from Six Centuries

Recorded: 3/87 & 2/89
Hyperion 66370

Music from the time of Christian IV

Recorded: 4/87
BIS 389

Draw on Sweet Night

English Madrigals
Recorded: 5/87
EMI Reflexe
49197

Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum and Marian Motets

Recorded: 4/88
EMI Reflexe
49798

Perotin

Recorded: 9/88
ECM New Series
1385

Dowland: Ayres

Recorded: 9/88
EMI Reflexe 49805

Josquin Desprez: Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae, etc.

Recorded: 5/89
EMI Reflexe
49960

German Romantic Partsongs

Schubert / Schumann / Cornelius / Reger / Strauss
Recorded:
9/89
EMI Reflexe 54017

Medieval Music

Recorded: 1/90
Conifer Records "Sunday
Times Music Collection" 4

Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories

Recorded: 3/90
ECM New Series
21422 (2 CDs)

Pierre de la Rue: Missa Cum iocunditate / Motets

Recorded: 9/90; Previously: EMI Reflexe 54082
Virgin Edition
61392

The Old Hall Manuscript

Recorded: 9/90 ; Previously: EMI Reflexe 54111
Virgin Edition
61393

Introitus

w/ Hespèrion XX
Recorded: compilation & 1990
EMI Reflexe
55207

Spanish and Mexican Renaissance Vocal Music

Music in the Age of Columbus / Music in the New World
Recorded: 1/91 ;
Previously: EMI Reflexe 54341
Virgin Edition
61394 (2 CDs)

Morales: Missa Mille regretz / Magnificat

w/ Junta de Andalucia
Recorded: 1992?
Almaviva 0101

Walter Frye

Recorded: 1/92
ECM New Series
1476

Italian Renaissance Madrigals

Recorded: ?
EMI Reflexe
54435

Codex Speciálník

Recorded: 1/93
ECM New Series
1504

Lassus: Missa pro defunctis / Prophetiae Sibyllarum

Recorded: 1993
ECM 1658

Sweet love, sweet hope

Music from a 15th-century Bodleian manuscript
Recorded: 1996
Isis Records 030

Perotin and the Ars Antiqua

Recorded: 8/96
Hilliard Live
1001

For Ockeghem

Recorded: 1997
Hilliard Live
1002

Antoine Brumel

Recorded: 1997
Hilliard Live
1003

Guillaume Dufay - Missa Se la face ay pale

Recorded: 1998
Hilliard Live
1004

In Paradisum - Victoria: Officium defunctorum / Palestrina

Released: 2000
ECM 1653

Machaut: Motets

Released: 2004
ECM 1823

Gombert: Missa Media Vita In Morte Sumus

Released: 2006
ECM 1884

In each case, the catalog number given in italics is the most recent known
release; only a percentage are currently available.

Modern Recordings

Arvo Pärt: Arbos

w/ many other performers
Recorded: 8/86 & 1/87
ECM New Series
1325

Arvo Pärt: Passio

Recorded: 3/88
ECM New Series 1370

Arvo Pärt: Miserere

Recorded 9/90 & 12/90
ECM New Series 1430

Giya Kancheli: Abii ne viderem

w/ many other performers
ECM New Series 1510

Officium

w/ Jan Garbarek
Recorded: 9/93
ECM New Series
1525

Gavin Bryars: Vita Nova

ECM New Series 1533

Arvo Pärt: Litany

ECM New Series 1592

A Hilliard Songbook

ECM New Series 1614/15 (2 CDs)

Mnemosyne

w/ Jan Garbarek
ECM New Series
21700 (2 CDs)

Gavin Bryars: Cadman Requiem

w/ Fretwork
Point Music 462 511

Morimur (after J.S. Bach)

w/ Christoph Poppen
ECM New Series 1765 (2 CDs)

Andrew Keeling: Quickening the Dead

w/ Bacchanalia / Susanna Pell
Recorded: 10/98
Riverrun 55

Lockerby Memorial Concert

w/ Gavin Bryars / Fretwork
Gavin Bryars Recordings
3

Bach-Webern: Ricercar

w/ Munich Chamber Orchestra - Christoph Poppen
ECM New Series
1774

Cornelius de Bondt: Blood

w/ Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
"Live" 4

Thy Kiss of a Divine Nature

The Contemporary Perotin
Released: 2006
Arthaus Musik 100
695 (2 DVDs + CD)

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