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Dowland’s Lachrimae has been billed (by Cambridge University Press) as […]
With subtitles such as “Jewish music for viols” and “Jewish musicians at the Tudor court”, this new disc from acclaimed viol ensemble Fretwork is bound
This is a first-rate combination of performing forces and works, a pleasing mix of 17 instrumental and vocal pieces (some for solo voice and viols,
Documenting the street language of vendors selling their wares in the squares and markets of 17th-century London is one thing; setting these utterances to music
From its first CD recordings nearly 30 years ago (actually, I believe the first was titled “Heart’s Ease”, on Virgin Classics in 1988), the viol
No question, these consort songs by William Byrd are a specialty area of the vocal repertoire visited primarily by early music aficionados and, in this
How can you go wrong with Fretwork and Orlando Gibbons? You can’t–and when you add the bright, resonant sonority and consummate style of Oxford’s Choir
Since its first recording in the 1980s, Fretwork has displayed a knack for interesting, uncommon programming, and this collection of songs and consort music by
Fretwork’s decidedly retro approach to Bach’s much-arranged and incessantly fiddled-with unfinished “last” opus is among the simplest and therefore most effective renditions on disc. This
Back in the late 1980s I heard what turned out to be an outstanding recording called Heart’s Ease (on Virgin Classics), by an ensemble of
