Recent programs

Consort members Farley Pearce, Julie Jeffrey, John Dornenburg, and David Morris

I wear my hat in a comic manner

Renaissance music by Josquin Des Prez and his contemporaries Heinrich Isaac, Jacob Obrecht, and Ludwig Senfl.
-- for soprano, tenor, and four viols

A Jacobean Fantasy: Draw on Sweet Night

Music by John Wilbye, Thomas Campion, Richard Nicholson, William Byrd, Claudio Monteverdi, and others.
-- for soprano and five viols

The Cries of London

Music by Gibbons, Deering, Cobb, Ravenscroft, Tye, Morley, and Cobbold.
-- for 5 voices and 5 viols

Jo. Dolandi di Lachrimæ: The Seaven Teares

Music by John Dowland.
-- for mezzo-soprano, lute, and five viols

Fire Fire, my heart!

English music by Byrd, Morley, Hume, Locke, Purcell, and others.
-- for soprano and four viols

17th-century German Sacred Cantatas

Music by Johann Christoph Bach, Christoph Bernhard, Johann Rudolf Ahle, Heinrich Schütz, and others.
-- for countertenor, guest violin, 3 bass viols, and continuo organ and violone

Banchetto Musicale

Music by Johann Hermann Schein, Giovanni Legrenzi, Johann Michael Nicholai, and others.
-- for five viols

Out of the Orient Crystal Skies: A Renaissance Christmas

Music by William Byrd, Michael Praetorius, Mel Torme, and others.
-- for soprano and four viols

Venetian Music for a New Century

Italian polychoral music from around 1600 by Giovanni Gabrieli and his contemporaries.
-- performed together with The Whole Noyse brass and wind ensemble.