offer for gentileschi national gallery appeal

​The National Gallery are raising funds for the purchase of the Orazio Gentileschi's The Finding of Moses for the nation.  Metronome produced a CD for the exhibition at the National Gallery "Orazio Gentileschi at the Court of Charles I" held at the gallery which focused on the musicians and artists who flourished at Charles's court.   We are therefore as a Christmas  offering both a discount on this title and will make a contribution of £3 for every copy sold. 

The music on the disc draws on the wonderful variety of music which Charles I commissioned for his court with Songs and Sonnets of John Donne, and of Nicholas Lanier the composer who was also responsible for collecting many of the great paintings Charles I acquired from Italy  (sung by Paul Agnew with Christopher Wilson on lute); Viol Consort by the great Royalist composer WIlliam Lawes (performed by Concordia);  

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On Sale

On Sale

Music & Art at the Court of Charles I

£13.50 £10.00

Mark Levy & Concordia Paul Agnew and Christopher Wilson 

Music & Art at the Court of Charles I

Label: Metronome Recordings Ltd

Catalogue No: METCD 1038

Discs: 1

New for the #SaveOrazio campaign

Among the Artists to whom Charles I was patron were Rubens, Van Dyck and, less well known today. the Italian Orazio Gentileschi, one of the most elegant and lyrical painers of the 17th century. Orazio Lorni Gentileschi, born the son of a Florentine goldsmith in PIsa in 1563, went to Roem in his mid-teens and in about 1600 became a friend of Caravaggio. The impact of the acquaintance on his painting was profound. It was not until he was 63 years old and after periods in Genoa (1621-26) that Gentileschi came to England, where he spend the last twelve years of his life. IN London, as court painter for Charles I, his earlier Caravaggism was replaced by a more elegant and mannered style, well suited to the tastes of Charles and his court.

The artisic achievements of Charles's court were matched in ambition by the musical establishment he created. CHarles was an amateur musicians himself, playing the bass viol, a skill he shared with two of the great composers (featured here) who were to figure prominently at his court - Nicholas Lanier and William Lawes. On his accession in 1625, Charles established 'the King's Musick' - a large band of musicians compromising some 6 recorders, 3 flutes, 9 oboes and sackbuts, 12 viols and 14 lutes and voices to perform at court ceremonials, masques and for private occassions. Many further recordings are available on Metronome from this period and these composers including albums by Concordia, the Lawes Consort, Paul Agnew, Christopher WIlson and others

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