Fretwork bring the expected and the startlingly unexpected to Sheffield in a revealing evening of music for viol consort.

The acclaimed British viol consort Fretwork will perform works by Jewish composers of the Renaissance and a new commission, "Birds on Fire," by the innovative contemporary composer Orlando Gough, in a ...

Fretwork presents J. S. Bach's contrapuntal masterpiece Art of Fugue, composed in his final years of life. Fretwork describes it: Although J.S. Bach’s Art of Fugue (BWV 1080) was written well after ...

Chicago’s most unlikely but welcome celebration of a composer occurred Friday night at Mandel Hall, when lute player Elizabeth Kenny joined the consort of viols Fretwork in observing the 450th ...

All this is partly explained by the fact that in their heyday viol consorts played music that was one step away from the voice; they were the pioneers of instrumental chamber music. They let the ...

It’s a gorgeous work of homage – a “ritualised memory piece” – to a composer Muhly (pictured below) clearly reveres, finding correlations and correspondences between Gibbons’ writing and Muhly’s own ...

In this Princeton University Chamber Choir special event, the Gramophone Award-winning internationally acclaimed viol consort makes their Princeton debut in a concert featuring consort anthems, ...