The English consort song, in which voices and viols intertwine, was at its zenith in the works of William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons, and in this concert the award-winning viol consort Fretwork teams up with the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers to perform works by these two composers from the late Tudor and early Jacobean era.
Sacred and secular 17th-century music sits alongside two major works from living composers: Thea Musgrave’s Wild Winter sets powerfully emotional poems about man’s inhumanity to man, and Nico Muhly’s My Days takes words from Psalm 39, echoing a setting of the same text by Gibbons.
