About Metronome
Metronome is a British independent classical music label which records the music at the frontiers with exciting, innovative interpreters.
Founded by Tim Smithies in 1992 the company began recording the music of the earliest voices of historical Western music - the music of the Notre Dame school with the early medieval vocal group, the Orlando Consort. The subsequent five recordings with this now highly acclaimed international vocal ensemble included Gramophone Award winning title John Dunstaple - Musician to the Plantagenets.
This pattern of working over a period of some years with musicians to develop a body of work exploring music of lesser known genres has developed to encompass the work of contemporary classical music and composers of our own era including composers of today Piers Hellawell, Harrison Birtwistle, Salvatore Sciarrino, Adrian Williams, Howard Goodall and the late 20th century for example the music of Alun Hoddinott and William Mathias.
The artistic direction has been driven by the energy and enthusiasm of the musicians, the composers, the producers for the music they admire and enjoy for its freshness and originality. We hope that this website will be an advocate for that music for audiences around the world and sales of music and downloads will be directed at developing the next steps in this endeavour.
Founded by Tim Smithies in 1992 the company began recording the music of the earliest voices of historical Western music - the music of the Notre Dame school with the early medieval vocal group, the Orlando Consort. The subsequent five recordings with this now highly acclaimed international vocal ensemble included Gramophone Award winning title John Dunstaple - Musician to the Plantagenets.
This pattern of working over a period of some years with musicians to develop a body of work exploring music of lesser known genres has developed to encompass the work of contemporary classical music and composers of our own era including composers of today Piers Hellawell, Harrison Birtwistle, Salvatore Sciarrino, Adrian Williams, Howard Goodall and the late 20th century for example the music of Alun Hoddinott and William Mathias.
The artistic direction has been driven by the energy and enthusiasm of the musicians, the composers, the producers for the music they admire and enjoy for its freshness and originality. We hope that this website will be an advocate for that music for audiences around the world and sales of music and downloads will be directed at developing the next steps in this endeavour.
We travelled to Avignon in 2012 and took these stunning shots of the Popes Palace where the music of the Orlando Consort disc.
Popes Palace, Avingnon
The Popes Insignia
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Exterior of the Medieval Popes Palace
Interior of the Popes Palace
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One of our artists Fred Jacobs playing a piece by Lambert on the Theorbo.