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I Fagiolini

The vocal group I Fagiolini has combined rigorous performances of Renaissance and contemporary music with innovative ideas about how to present these repertories, including on stage and film. The group was founded at Oxford University in 1986. The name, meaning "The Green Beans," has, the group says, "been misspelt, mispronounced, and misunderstood throughout the world." It quickly snared a top prize at the 1988 U.K. Early Music Network Young Artists' Competition and then launched a busy schedule of performances and recordings that has continued to the present day. I Fagiolini performs some 50 concerts annually, often appearing at the BBC Proms and mounting performances as far afield as the U.S., the Far East, and South Africa, where it recorded the semi-improvised album Simunye with the SDASA Chorale of Soweto, subsequently touring with the group in Africa and Europe. Many of its international performances have been undertaken under the auspices of the British Council. In 1994, the group released its debut album, Insalata, on the Metronome label. In 2007, I Fagiolini provided the music for the film The Full Monteverdi, an experimental drama about six couples who break up at the same time in the same restaurant, based on the texts (and, with I Fagiolini's contribution, the music) of Monteverdi's fourth book of madrigals. The music from the film was released on CD and DVD by the Naxos label. The group's performing and recording repertory has centered on solo vocal music of the Renaissance and contemporary periods. Often recording for Chandos or (since 2011, when it released a recording of Alessandro Striggio's Mass in 40 Parts) Decca, I Fagiolini has focused on Italian and English music of the Renaissance and Baroque. It has collaborated with the viol ensemble Fretwork, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Harmony of Nations, and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Its 2017 recording Monteverdi: The Other Vespers assembled a new Vespers service from existing pieces by Monteverdi and his contemporaries. The group moved to the Coro label in 2019 with the album Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible, tracing musical resonances of the ideas of Leonardo da Vinci. I Fagiolini released an album of music by madrigalist John Wilbye on Coro in 2022, returning the following year with a recording of Orazio Benevoli's Missa Tu es Petrus.
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