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The Consort Music - William Byrd
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November 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Nyman & Purcell: If & other songs - Iestyn Davies & @fretwork.bsky.social
Heavenly

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Nyman & Purcell: If & other songs
<p>Iestyn Davies and Fretwork indulge in a spot of 'pump-action Purcell' …</p>
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November 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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John Jenkins (1592-1678)
Division - The virtuoso consort

Another delightful album from @fretwork.bsky.social
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Jenkins: Division - The virtuoso consort
<p>Join Fretwork and Silas Wollston (on the organ) as they revel in the uniquely English world of John Jenkins’s consort music for viols, a repertoire distinguished by its rich lyricism, exceptional c...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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British viol player Sarah Small is doing her bit for climate change www.continuoconnect.com/features/sar...
Feature | Sarah Small: Tuning into climate change | Continuo Connect
Acclaimed British viola da gamba player Sarah Small reflects on the highlights and challenges of her successful 4,500km 'Good Again?' concert tour.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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And while we're at it Richard Boothby & @fretwork.bsky.social seem to be the most prominent viol Consort in my collection. Probably for good reason
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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William Byrd - The Second Service & Consort Anthems

Featuring @fretwork.bsky.social & the aforementioned Rogers Covey-Crump
October 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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William Byrd - Consort Songs

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October 4, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Division - John Jenkins
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Jenkins: Division - The virtuoso consort
<p>Join Fretwork and Silas Wollston (on the organ) as they revel in the uniquely English world of John Jenkins’s consort music for viols, a repertoire distinguished by its rich lyricism, exceptional c...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Many thanks indeed to Continuo Foundation who have awarded us a grant so we can perform our new Albion project, coming up in Oxford in 2026. Watch this space for details!

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September 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Division is a new release (& wonderful) but I'd also recommend the Jenkins: Complete four-part consort music, also from @fretwork.bsky.social
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Jenkins: Complete four-part consort music
<p>The effortless counterpoint and rare melodic gift of John Jenkins find peerless voice in the care of masterful viol consort Fretwork.</p>
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September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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John Jenkins (1592-1678)
Division - The virtuoso consort
@fretwork.bsky.social

www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...
Jenkins: Division - The virtuoso consort
<p>Join Fretwork and Silas Wollston (on the organ) as they revel in the uniquely English world of John Jenkins’s consort music for viols, a repertoire distinguished by its rich lyricism, exceptional c...
www.hyperion-records.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Muhly: My days; Gibbons: Fantasias & Fugues
Lovely, as you'd expect
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Muhly: My days; Gibbons: Fantasias & Fugues
<p><i>My days</i> is a bold new work from Nico Muhly whose text amalgamates passages from The Burial of the Dead (‘thou hast made my days as it were a span long …’—Psalm 39) with an anonymous autopsy-...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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In chains of gold – The English pre-Restoration verse anthem, Vol. 3
Ah, his glory! – Anthems of praise, prayer and remembrance
Magdalena Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, @fretwork.bsky.social

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In chains of gold – The English pre-Restoration verse anthem, Vol. 3
<p>Described by <i>Early Music Review</i> as ‘an impressive master-class in how these texts should be declaimed’, the third volume in the Magdalena Consort’s revelatory series brings us a further elev...
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September 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Lamento - @fretwork.bsky.social with Iestyn Davies & Silas Wollston
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Lamento
<p>With important contributions from organist Silas Wollston and countertenor Hugh Cutting, this new album sheds new light on the viol consort and its repertoire as they thrived beyond the shores of E...
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August 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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The Fretwork album MY DAYS: ORLANDO GIBBONS AND NICO MUHLY has been released by Signum Classics

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MY DAYS: ORLANDO GIBBONS AND NICO MUHLY - Fretwork Album
The Fretwork album MY DAYS: ORLANDO GIBBONS AND NICO MUHLY has been released by Signum Classics
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July 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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My Days - @fretwork.bsky.social
featuring Orlando Gibbons & Nico Muhly
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Muhly: My days; Gibbons: Fantasias & Fugues
<p><i>My days</i> is a bold new work from Nico Muhly whose text amalgamates passages from The Burial of the Dead (‘thou hast made my days as it were a span long …’—Psalm 39) with an anonymous autopsy-...
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July 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Birds on Fire - 17th century Jewish Music for Viols

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Birds on Fire: 17th century Jewish Music for Viols
Birds on Fire. Harmonia Mundi: HMU907478. Buy download online. Jeremy Avis (cantor) Fretwork
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July 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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🎶 Two stunning new albums—If the Fates Allow (Helen Charlston) & My Days (@fretwork.bsky.social) —supported by Continuo Foundation ⭐

Hear them live at York Early Music on 4 July (York) & Stour Music on 21 June (Kent) in music by Gibbons & @nicomuhly.bsky.social

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June 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Tonight!! www.musicatoxford.com/whats-on/fre...
June 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Come and here the wonderful music of Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly in Oxford tomorrow. @musicatoxford.bsky.social Oxford in SJE at 7.30pm
June 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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🎼 Today marks the 400th anniversary of the death of composer, keyboard virtuoso, and one of the last of the greats from the English polyphonic school, Orlando Gibbons.

🎶 Hear
@fretwork.bsky.social at @wigmore-hall.org.uk tonight...

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June 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Alexander Chance performs music by Orlando Gibbons with @fretwork.bsky.social!

5 June – @wigmore-hall.org.uk
7 June – Music at Oxford

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June 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Harmonice Musices Odhecaton - an anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501.
It is the first book of polyphonic music ever to be printed using movable type.
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June 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Hopefully that will be in Foyles when I visit tomorrow...meanwhile this is currently playing.
June 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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My Days: Fretwork album review — a fascinating blend of ancient and modern
June 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM