Philip Pickett
Philip Pickett is one of the leading ensemble directors in the London early music movement, and is also a highly regarded virtuoso player of the recorder. He became interested in early music while still in his teens through contact with two of the leaders of a generation of "period instrument" musicians, David Munrow and Anthony Baines. Pickett learned to play a variety of Baroque and earlier wind instruments, including the recorder, crumhorn, racket, and shawm.
He became noted as a player before he turned 20. At the age of 21 he became Professor of Recorder in 1972 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as post he retained for 25 years. Throughout the '70s he had continuing and growing success as a solo and ensemble early wind instruments player, in the meantime developing his scholarly interests and skills.
He began forming his own ensembles and in 1981 founded the New London Consort, which soon became known for its razor-sharp musical execution and its performances that were informed not only as regards performance practice, interpretation, and embellishment, but the political, cultural, and educational context of the eras relating to the music on their programs. Pickett's point of view tends towards the freer side of Early Music interpretation. That is, from what is definitely known about performances in a given repertory, he and his ensembles make what they consider reasonable extrapolations so long as they are not contradicted by what is known. (Another school of early music performance confines itself to doing what is known to have been done during the era.) Pickett, therefore, organizes performances that tend to be colorful in instrumentation, ornamentation; use period percussion, speculating for some rhythmic decisions; and be lively, often improvisatory, in performance.
Another characteristic of Pickett's ensembles stems from his recognition of the primacy of the voice during most of the eras in his area of expertise. Accordingly, he maintains close relationships with a core group of singers who often perform in his concerts, artists including Catherine Bott, Michael George, Andrew King, Tessa Bonner, Belinda Sykes, Olive Simpson, Simon Grant, and many others.
In the 1980s Pickett had particular success in the City of London Festival and in 1988 was appointed artistic director of the South Bank Summerscope Festival of Medieval and Renaissance Music. In 1994 he became the director of Musicians of the Globe, the resident music organization of London's reconstructed Globe Theatre.
Pickett has made numerous recordings on the Decca/L'oiseau-Lyre and Linn labels both as a soloist and a leader of ensembles. These include a widely praised set of interpretations of the famous Carmina Burana medieval manuscripts, theatrical CDs such as Monteverdi's Orfeo and Blow's Venus and Adonis, music related to Shakespeare, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, Elizabethan and Jacobean music, Biber's Requiem, and numerous other works mostly of the Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque eras.
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Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore, 1612
New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1986
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Susato: Dansereye 1551
New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1993
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Telemann: Recorder Concertos
Philip Pickett, Mark Levy, New London Consort
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1992
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Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 5 sept. 1992
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Carmina Burana Vol. 2
New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 10 oct. 1988
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Vivaldi: 14 Concertos (for Mandolin, Flute, Trumpet, Violin, etc.)
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, New London Consort, Philip Pickett, Bach Ensemble, The, Joshua Rifkin
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1997
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Monteverdi: 1610 Vespers/Madrigals/Orfeo
New London Consort, Philip Pickett, The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley, Schütz Choir of London, Roger Norrington
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 2002
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Vivaldi: Concertos and Cantatas
Catherine Bott, Tom Finucane, New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 20 sept. 1992
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The Pilgrimage to Santiago
Catherine Bott, New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1991
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
John Mark Ainsley, Catherine Bott, New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca (UMO) le 28 mars 2008
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Nutmeg And Ginger - Spicy Ballads From Shakespeare's London
Musicians Of The Globe, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 9 avr. 1999
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Knightly Passions: The Songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein
Catherine Bott, Paul Agnew, MICHAEL Georges, New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1996
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Biber: Requiem; Battalia; Balletae; Sonata
New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 27 avr. 1994
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Biber/Schmelzer: Trumpet Music
New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1991
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Nativitas
New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1998
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Carmina Burana. A Medieval Coll. (13th c. Bavarian MS)
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Decca le 10 mai 2019
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Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus; Gloria
New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 mars 2001
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Blow: Venus & Adonis
Catherine Bott, MICHAEL Georges, New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1994
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Flecha: Ensaladas
New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1997
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Carmina Burana Vol.1
New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1987
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Calvi & Cloquet: Pilgrimage - 9 Songs Of Ecstasy
Catherine Bott, New London Consort, Philip Pickett
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 oct. 1997
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