New London Consort & Philip Pickett - Carmina Burana

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The esteemed English recorder player, conductor and teacher, Philip Pickett, began his musical career as a trumpet player; his interest in the high trumpet parts of Bach and other Baroque composers was fostered by Anthony Baines and David Munrow, who introduced him to all the families of early wind instruments. This led him to take up the recorder, crumhorn, shawm, rackett etc, and he quickly became well-known as Britain's leading advocate of such instruments.

In mid 1980's Philip Pickett founded the New London Consort (= NLC) and has continued to be their Musical Director ever since. With the New London Consort, he has performed in some of the most prestigious festivals and concert halls in the world and recorded more than 40 CDs for Decca, including Monteverdi L’Orfeo, Vespers 1610, Il Ballo delle Ingrate and Il Combattimento di Tancredi. In June 2005 he directed the New London Consort in performances of J.S. Bach’s Johannes-Passion (BWV 245) at the Israel Festival Jerusalem.

Publications an article on programmes and audiences (Hard-sell scholarship and silly titles) for the Dent Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music; an article on the performance of medieval music for Medieval World; a discussion of Baroque symbolism and rhetorical practice for BBC Musk magazine; privately published studies of the Carmina Burana, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and the Brandenburg Concertos; and an endless serum of acclaimed programme notes for New London Consort and MoG concerts and recordings. In December 1993 he read a paper on Monteverdi's orchestration at the International Monteverdi Conference in London.