Rose Consort of Viols - Events and Concerts

Saturday 3rd December 2011 7:30pm
Holywell Music room, Oxford
Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr and Roy Marks
with Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano
'Musicke to content every humour'

Anthems, motets, songs and fantasias from two famous collections: Byrd's 'Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets' in celebration of the 400th anniversary of its publication in 1611, and music from Robert Dow's manuscript partbooks from the 1580s, including pieces by Tallis, Parsons and Mundy

Sunday 16th October 2011 12:30pm
Town Hall, Dulverton Devon
Two Moors Festival in Dulverton
Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks

Sunday lunch accompanied by a cocktail of music has become a regular feature within the festival. In previous years, the musical offering has comprised a group of singers. This time however, the splendid and renowned ensemble, Rose Consort of Viols is ringing the changes.
The event can be summed up as a two−course concert of music from the twin golden ages of the viol consort: before lunch is the varied repertory of the Elizabethan chamber, with pavans, galliards, delights by Taverner, Tallis and Byrd together with some Italian delicacies. Lunch will be digested with the later riches of music by Tomkins, Jenkins, Locke and Purcell, whose fantazias bring the great English tradition of viol consorts to its conclusion at the time of Charles II.
Booking essential: Ticket includes a two−course lunch. Wine available.
For details please visit the Two Moors Festival

Sunday 24 July 2011 7.45pm
Great Hall, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL
Dartington International Summer School
Concert: Purcell: Fantazias and In Nomines
Directors: Rose Consort of Viols
Henry Purcell’s Fantazias and In Nomines belong to that rare group of pieces (Bach’s Art of Fugue and Beethoven’s late quartets are others) whose profundity appears to be at odds with any obvious reason for their existence. An extraordinary conclusion to the long tradition of English viol consort music, their intensity of expression can still surprise us, more than 300 years since the composer’s untimely death. In this concert they are contrasted with pieces by Purcell’s predecessors Tallis and Byrd, and with electronic pieces by Jonathan Harvey and Sir Harrison Birtwistle.

23 July – 30 July, 2011
Dartington Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL
Dartington International Summer School
The Golden Age of Jacobean Consorts
Directors: Rose Consort of Viols
This course for viol consort players will explore the music of some of the greatest English composers of the Jacobean period, including Dowland, Coprario, Ferrabosco and Gibbons, all of whom worked for James I. We also celebrate the music of Peter Philips, whose 450th anniversary we mark. All were renowned as composers, and their fantasias and dance music provide a wealth of wonderful music to study and perform. Competent sight-reading is essential: numbers are limited and it may be necessary to select participants to form balanced groups. The tutors will choose student consorts for each session, and only one session each day will be open to less experienced players. There may also be opportunities for viol players to work with singers or lutenists, and there will also be two sessions during the week when complete beginners can ‘try the viol’.
For details please visit www.dartington.org/summer-school

16 - 21 July 2011
Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills
Ibberson Way, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 9RB
International Viol Summer School (11/503)
Tutored by: Ibi Aziz, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland
Details www.benslow.org Tel: 01462 459446

Wednesday 20th July 2011 8pm
Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills SG4 9RB
Rose Consort of Viols
Tim Travers-Brown countertenor
Little Benslow Hills in the Peter Morrison Hall

'Ye Sacred Muses'
'Songs and instrumental works from Elizabethan England,
including music by Byrd, Tallis, Parsons and White....'

Tuesday 12 July 2011 10:00pm
National Centre for Early Music, York
Event 18:
Rose Consort of Viols
Jacob Heringman Lute
The Festival Consort
A Golden Age Revisited: Madrigals, anthems and instrumental music from the courts of Elizabeth I and James I
Central to the 1951 Festival of Britain series of early music concerts was an exploration of the great Elizabethan and Jacobean composers, including Byrd, Morley, Gibbons and Dowland. We revisit this rich seam, highlighting pieces from Byrd's Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets published in the same year as the King James Bible, 400 years ago, in the kaleidoscopic company of dances, madrigals, ballets, lute solos and viol fantasias by the cream of composers of the Golden Age.

Monday 11 July 2011 1:00pm
National Centre for Early Music, York
Event 11:
Rose Consort of Viols:
Ibrahim Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland viols
The Festival Consort:
Helen Neeves, Bethany Seymour sopranos
Jason Darnell, William Knight tenors
Rupert Reid bass
Peter Seymour organ
From Chapel, Court and Country: Music for vocal and viol consort by Richard Dering and Peter Philips
Dering and Philips were two composers whose music was not widely known in 1951, perhaps because both spent much of their careers in the Spanish Netherlands where their Roman Catholicism was not a bar to employment. Italianate flair contrasts with English contrapuntal prowess in their fantasias and dance music for viol consort and their intimate sacred chamber motets for voices and organ, performed here in recent or forthcoming volumes in the Musica Britannica series, and concluding with Dering's vivid evocation of rural life: 'The Country Cries'.

Monday 11th July 2010 10.00pm – 11.00pm
Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate YO1 8NQ
Rose Consort of Viols
Daniel Edgar, Nia Lewis violins
Peter Seymour organ
Solemn and Sweet Delightful Ayres: Music from the 17th- century English music room
From the time of Charles I through the Commonwealth to the Restoration, English composers created a cornucopia of chamber music for strings 'to the organ', combining violins and viols in different permutations, and exploiting both the interwoven discourse of true chamber music with moments of virtuoso display in flamboyant divisions. We explore this rich repertory with fantasy-suites by Coprario and Jenkins, divisions by Simpson, and music by Purcell that looks both forwards and backwards to his earlier English pedigree.

Saturday June 11 2011 7.30pm
St John's Chapel, Chichester
St Johns Street Chichester PO19 1UH
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr and Roy Marks
With Rory McCleery (countertenor)
An Emerald in a Work of Gold
Songs and fantasias from the partbooks of the Elizabethan music lover Robert Dow, including pieces by Tallis, Byrd, Parsons and Tye.
Tickets £12, £10 (VdGS members and Friends of St John’s Chapel), £8 (students) Tel: 01243 775888

Thursday 3 March 2011 7.30pm
Chapel, University of Aberdeen
Rachelle Taylor harpsichord
David J. Smith organ/harpsichord
Rose Consort of Viols
Choir of King's College Chapel, Aberdeen
The Travels and Music of Peter Philips (1560/61 – 1628)
Keyboard Works by Peter Philips Polyphonic Vocal and Instrumental Works by William Byrd, Giulio Caccini, John Dowland, Nikolaus a Kempis, Orlandus Lassus, Luca Marenzio, Peter Philips, and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Link to programme notes.

Thursday 3 March 2011 1.10pm
Chapel, University of Aberdeen
Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland
The Travels and Music of Peter Philips (1560/61 – 1628)
To celebrate the 450th anniversary of the birth of Peter Philips this concert offers a selection of his consort music, placed in the context of works by other composers with whose work he was familiar, or who responded in turn to his own music. Though trained as a choirboy at St. Paul’s in London, Philips’s reputation was made on the European continent. He joined Archduke Albrecht’s court in Brussels in 1597, but had been abroad since 1582, first in Rome, and then in the service of the Catholic Lord Thomas Paget, with whom he travelled to Italy, Spain and France before settling in the Spanish Netherlands, where he lived out his life. Philips always retained strong links to his English past, styling himself ‘Anglo’ or ‘Inglese’ on his published music, and writing well-wrought contrapuntal music for viols in the English style. Concert as part of international conference celebrating the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter Philips. Downloadable programme notes.

Saturday 4 December 2010 at 1.00pm
National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret’s Church, York
Peace on earth: good will toward men
Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland
with Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano)
and University of Huddersfield Chamber Choir, directed by John Bryan
Peace on earth: good will toward men
Music for the Christmas season from Elizabethan and Jacobean England, including anthems, songs and carols by Bull, Ravenscroft, and Peerson;
contemplative Latin motets and sections of the mass ordinary by Parsons and Byrd;
interspersed with elegant fantasias and courtly dances for viols by Tallis and Holborne.
www.ncem.co.uk

Friday 3 December 2010 at 7.30pm
Square Chapel, Halifax (Halifax Philharmonic Club)
Lullaby, my sweet little baby:
A musical celebration of Christmas from Elizabethan & Jacobean England
Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland
with Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano)
Lullaby, my sweet little baby: a musical celebration of Christmas from Elizabethan & Jacobean England. ‘We are frolic here at Court; much dancing in the Privy Chamber of country dances before the Queen’s majesty, who is exceedingly pleased therewith ... but in winter Lullaby, an old song of Mr Byrd’s, will be more in request as I think.’ (Earl of Worcester, September 1602)
The programme includes seasonal motets, anthems and songs by Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and their contemporaries, together with instrumental fantasias, and courtly dances by Antony Holborne.
Square Chapel Centre for the Arts
Halifax HX1 1QG

Thursday 2 December 2010 at 7.30pm
St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield
Peace on earth: good will toward men
Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland
with Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano)
and University of Huddersfield Chamber Choir, directed by John Bryan
Peace on earth: good will toward men
Music for the Christmas season from Elizabethan and Jacobean England, including anthems, songs and carols by Bull, Ravenscroft, and Peerson;
contemplative Latin motets and sections of the mass ordinary by Parsons and Byrd;
interspersed with elegant fantasias and courtly dances for viols by Tallis and Holborne.
£7.00 unreserved
Department of Music & Drama
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate
Huddersfield HD1 3DH

Thursday 2 December 2010 at 1.15pm
St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield
Flow my teares
Songs both merry and melancholy from the Renaissance and early Baroque periods
Clare Wilkinson (mezzo soprano) accompanied by members of the Rose Consort on viols, lute, harpsichord and organ
Department of Music & Drama
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate
Huddersfield HD1 3DH

Saturday 20 November 2010 7.30pm
St John sub Castro, Lancaster Street, Lewes BN7 2PU
Tudor Verse Anthems
Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland
with Esterhazy Chamber Choir (director: Sandy Chenery)
A concert of of Tudor verse anthems, consort music and songs. The programme will include two of Gibbons' most famous verse anthems: This is the record of John and See the word incarnate.

Tickets available in advance in person from Lewes Tourist Information Centre, 187 High Street, Lewes BN7 2DE, or on the door.

24 July - 31 Jul 2010
Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL
Dartington International Summer School
Songs without Words
Directors: Rose Consort of Viols
This course for viol consort players will explore the music of some of the greatest English composers of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, including Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons: all were skilled singers as well as composers, and imbued their instrumental music with their profound understanding of word-setting. Their fantasias, dance music and In Nomines provide a wealth of wonderful music to investigate, as does their vocal music when performed on viols. Competent sight-reading is essential: numbers are limited and it may be necessary to select participants to form balanced groups. There may be opportunities for viol players to work with singers or lutenists, and there will be two sessions during the week when complete beginners can 'try the viol'.
For details please visit www.dartington.org/summer-school

Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 5.00
Great Hall, Dartington
Clearing the Sky of Clouds
Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks, Susanne Heinrich
with Clare Wilkinson (mezzo soprano)
Music from the Privy Chamber of King Henry VIII to the domestic consorts of Stuart England, featuring songs, dances and fantasias by Philip van Wilder, William Byrd, Robert Parsons and Thomas Tomkins, and pieces by Summer School’s Artistic Director from 2011, John Woolrich.

Dartington Hall Totnes, Devon. TQ9 6DE

Saturday 12 June 2010 6pm
St Peter’s Church Petersham
Festive Evensong from Queen Elizabeth I's Chapel Royal
with The Rose Consort of Viols
Featuring ceremonial English church music of the sixteenth century, using period instruments played by professional specialists, and sung by a choir of singers who have come together to study this particular style of singing.
The singers will include members of the London Motet & Madrigal Club and choirs in the Petersham, Richmond and Twickenham area, conducted by Jonathan Rennert, (Director of Music at St Michael's, Cornhill and a former organist at St Peter's, Petersham)
For details please visit www.petershamfestival.org

Saturday 29 May 2010 12:30pm
The Quire, Beverley Minster HU17 0DP
From Bologna to Britannia:
Travels of the Early Viol Consort.
John Bryan, Alison Crum and Roy Marks.
The instruments used for this concert were specially built, based on viols painted by Lorenzo Costa in Bologna in 1497. Costa worked for Isabella d'Este, a well known patroness of the arts, who delighted in sophisticated instrumental pieces by Franco-Flemish composers. The 'Henry VIII Manuscript' in London curiously contains several of the same pieces, alongside works by English composers. If the music travelled to Britain, might instruments similar to Costa's viols have done so too?

Tuesday 23rd February 2010 at 8 p.m.
Corpus Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street near Broadway
American Garden/English Roses
A concert jointly with Parthenia, New York's leading viol consort.
Click here to view concert program and notes.

Saturday 20th February 2010 at 09.00 am
Slosberg Music Building, Brandeis University,Waltham MA
A Workshop on music of Ferrabosco the Elder.
For the VdGS New England.
See details here New England Winter Workshop 2010

Friday 19th February 2010 at 8 p.m.
Lindsay Chapel First Congregational Church,
11 Garden Street in Cambridge MA, 02138
please enter by the Mason Street door.
'Composed after the Italian vaine'. A Concert.
An exploration of Italian influences in English renaissance consort music

Friday 19th February 2010 at 6.30 p.m
Lindsay Chapel First Congregational Church,
11 Garden Street in Cambridge MA, 02138
please enter by the Mason Street door.
'Songs Without Words'
An approach to the performance of Elizabethan Consort Music.
A pre-concert talk given by John Bryan, Professor at the University of Huddersfield UK, and founder member of The Rose Consort of Viols.
Entrance free. Sponsored by Longy School of Music.

Thursday 26 November 2009 at 1.10 pm
Harty Room, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN
Rose Consort of Viols, Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks
Divisions, Ayres and Fancies
The late flowering of the English viol consort, with music by John Jenkins and Matthew Locke, flamboyant divisions by Christopher Simpson and culminating in the unsurpassed fantazias of Henry Purcell.

Thursday 19th November 2009 at 7.45 pm
St Machar Cathedral, Aberdeen AB24 1RQ (for University of Aberdeen)
Rose Consort of Viols, Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland with Emma Kirkby, soprano. From Teares to Turnips
A sweep across London's varied musical scene four hundred years ago, with dances and fantasias by Tallis, Byrd, and Holborne, and songs ranging from the darkest melancholy of Dowland and the elegance of Gibbons to the street scenes of Weelkes' 'Cries of London'.

Thursday 10 September 2009, 5.00-7.30pm, Radio Theatre, BBC Broadcasting House
BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune', celebrating the music of Henry Purcell
The Rose Consort of Viols will be participating in a special edition of BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune', celebrating the music of Henry Purcell, who may well have been born exactly 350 years ago on this date. The performance is live, with a studio audience, and the Roses will be playing a selection of Purcell's 3 and 4 part fantazias, his Fantazia upon One Note, and the In Nomines in six and seven parts. See also BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune'.

29 July 2009 10.30pm, Great Hall Dartington, Totnes
Rose Consort of Viols, Ibi Aziz bass viol, Alison Crum bass viol, Andrew Kerr bass viol,
Roy Marks theorbo, John Bryan harpsichord, Angel or Devil? The myth behind the two so-called viol rivals at the Court of the Sun King – Marin Marais and JBA Forqueray. For details see Dartington International Summer School

27 Jul 2009 20.15 - Great Hall Dartington, Totnes, Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland with Emma Kirkby soprano, David Miller lute and surprise guests.
'From Teares to Turnips'
A sweep across London's varied musical scene four hundred years ago, with songs and instrumental dances and fantasias by Byrd, Brade and Coprario, ranging from the darkest melancholy of Dowland to the street scenes of Gibbons' 'Cries of London'.
For details see Dartington International Summer School

15 July 2009 10.00pm – c.11.00pm
All Saints Church, North Street York
Rose Consort of Viols, with Evelyn Tubb, soprano
Concert by Candlelight, Tallis is Dead, and Music Dies
William Byrd commemorated several of his friends, patrons and other personalities at the Elizabethan court in heartfelt elegies for solo voice with the plangent accompaniment of viols. Consort music by Tallis and dances by Holborne provide a backdrop for Byrd's elegies for Lady Magdalene Montague, Mary Queen of Scots, Sir Philip Sidney and his Chapel Royal colleague Tallis. See the National Centre for Early Music

14 July 2009 19:30 York Early Music Festival
Rose Consort of Viols Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland viols
'Alpha & Omega': The First and Last English Viol Consorts, from the Early Tudors to Purcell. The incomparable fantazias by Henry Purcell stand at the end of a remarkably rich line of English consort music. Here a selection of Purcell's pieces in 3, 4 and 5 parts is contrasted with music by his Tudor precursors Lloyd, Bevin, Parsley and Byrd, mostly using intriguing and cunning compositional devices. See the National Centre for Early Music

3 March 2009 at 19:30 University of Sheffield, Firth Hall
Rose Consort of Viols, 'Ayres & Fancies': Purcell's incomparable fantazias, with dances and In Nomines by his Tudor predecessors www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts.

10 Feb 2009 at 19:30
St. Mary's Church, Warwick
Rose Consort of Viols with Catherine King (mezzo soprano)
'Ayres & Fancies': Purcell's incomparable fantazias, with songs by Dowland & Byrd

09 February 2009 19:30 Ripon Cathedral, Ripon
Rose Consort of Viols with the Deller Consort
London Street Cries
Viol and Consort Music from the 16th and 17th centuries to include the Gibbons Fantasia on London Street Cries... detail to follow. Venue:- www.riponcathedral.org.uk
www.riponconcerts.co.uk

12 Dec 2008 at 19:30 Milverton Concert Society
Milverton Paris Church Rose Consort of Viols with Catherine King (mezzo soprano)
'Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage': Elizabethan Dramatic Songs, Dances & Fantasias
www.milvertonconcerts.org

4 Dec 2008 at 7.45pm Bedford Music Club
Bunyan Meeting Free Church, Mill Street, Bedford
Rose Consort of Viols with Catherine King (mezzo soprano)
'Lullaby, my sweet little baby': Elizabethan & Jacobean Music for Christmas
www.bedfordmusicclub.co.uk

7 Oct 2008 at 6.15pm University of Huddersfield, Phipps Concert Hall
Professor John Bryan with the Rose Consort of Viols
Inaugural Lecture-Recital: 'Songs without Words':
An Approach to the Performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean Consort Music
www.hud.ac.uk/mh/music

6 October 2008 at 19:30
Huddersfield Music Society, St Paul's Hall University of Huddersfield
Rose Consort of Viols with Emma Kirkby (soprano)
'The Swan and the Nightingale'
Consort songs by William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons, together with music as enjoyed by 'gentlemen and merchants of good account' in the City of London around 1600: Italian madrigals by Luca Marenzio, and sublime fantasias, pavans and galliards by Dowland, Ferrabosco, Holborne and their contemporaries. www.huddersfield-music-society.org.uk

31 July 2008 at 5.00pm Dartington International Summer School
Great Hall, Dartington, Rose Consort of Viols, Music by Tobias Hume
See http://www.dartington.org/summer-school

29 July 2008 at 5.00pm Dartington International Summer School
Great Hall, Dartington, Rose Consort of Viols
'Sweet Delightful Ayres and Sublime Discourses'
Fancies, In Nomines and dance music by the last great English consort composers, commended by Thomas Mace in Musick's Monument of 1676, including John Ward, John Jenkins and William Lawes, as well as the incomparable Henry Purcell.
See http://www.dartington.org/summer-school

26 July-2 Aug 2008 Dartington Course
Directors: Rose Consort of Viols, Viol Consorts: Alpha and Omega
This course will focus on the great repertory of English consort music, from the court of Henry VIII and the Lumley partbooks, to music by Tallis, Tye and their contemporaries. More advanced players will also be coached in later music, such as Jenkins, Lawes and Locke, leading to the crowning glory of Purcell's Fantasias. Competent sight-reading is essential.
During the week there will be one or two sessions offering complete beginners the chance to play the viol. For details see http://www.dartington.org/summer-school

18 July 2008 at 19:30 Gower Festival, St Mary's Church, Rhossili
Rose Consort of Viols with Catherine King (mezzo soprano)
'Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage'
Tickets from: http://www.gowerfestival.org/

8 July 2008 at 1.00pm York Early Music Festival, National Centre for Early Music,
St Margaret's Church, York. Rose Consort of Viols, Three Britons in Brussels
Consort music by John Bull, Richard Dering and Peter Phillips
Tickets from: www.ncem.co.uk

14 May 2008 19:30 Ottery St Mary Church, Devon, Rose Consort of Viols with Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano. 'Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage', Tickets £10 centre nave and £8 side aisles available from Exeter Leukaemia Fund Office.
Profits in aid of The Exeter Leukaemia Fund.

8 April 2008 at 8.00pm Amersham Festival St Mary's Parish Church, Old Amersham.
Rose Consort of Viols with Catherine King (mezzo soprano) 'Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage' Tickets £13, £10 from Clive Morley 1, Meadow Drive, Amersham, Bucks. HP6 6LB http://www.amershamfestival.org

Friday 7th December 2007- 19:30. National Centre for Early Music, York Early Music Christmas Festival, Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland viols
with Catherine King mezzo-soprano
Lullaby, my Sweet Little Baby, Elizabethan songs and consort music for a Festive Celebration including music by Byrd, Tye, Holborne and Peerson. Contact:- National Centre for Early Music.

Thursday 6th December 2007 at 19:30, Djanogly Concert Hall, Lakeside Arts Centre.
Nottingham University Concert Series. The Rose Consort of Viols: John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks viols, Perfect and Sweet Harmony. A journey through the viol consort's development, starting with copies of instruments from Italy in 1497, through later 16th century Venetian instruments to the Jacobean period and English viols, ending with pieces from the 17th century by Lawes, Locke and Purcell.
Contact: Catherine Hocking, Music Officer, Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD. www.lakesidearts.org.uk

Thursday 29th November 2007 at 19:30, Great Hall, Lancaster University.
Lancaster International Concert Series, Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks viols. Songs without Words: Consort Music from the Age of Elizabeth I
Renaissance composers were adept at borrowing each others' music: well known songs were arranged as instrumental pieces; motets and madrigals performed without their texts. This programme explores a range of consort music that owes much to the rich vocal repertory of the Elizabethan age, including pieces by Tallis, Tye, Parsons, Ferrabosco, Byrd and Dowland.

Saturday 10 November 2007 - 1.45 - 2.30pm. Old Royal Naval College Chapel Greenwich SE10 Greenwich International Early Music Festival & Exhibition 2007
Four Gentleman of the Chapel Royal
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr and Roy

Thursday 2 August 2007 - 7:00pm. - Orvis Auditorium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. Music of Tye, Tallis, Byrd, and Tomkins -- CD launch. Please check the details at http://vdgsa.org/PPGG/

Monday 30 July 2007 - 7:30pm. - First Lutheran Church of Honolulu, 1730 Punahou St., Honolulu. Rose Consort of Viols with Bach Chamber Choir, English Anthems and Consort Music for Voices and Viols. Please check the details at http://vdgsa.org/PPGG/.

Sunday 29 July 2007 - 4:00pm. Atherton Performing Arts Studio, 738 Kaheka St., Honolulu. A Short History of the Viol. Part of the Pan-Pacific Gamba Gathering. The Viola da Gamba as a World Instrument July 29 - August 5, 2007, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. Please check the details at http://vdgsa.org/PPGG/

Monday 23 July 2007 - 8:15pm. The Great Hall, Dartington
Rose Consort of Viols with members of Stile Antico.
Loyal servant & devout catholic, William Byrd lived a double life. Whilst composing brilliant gems for the courts and chapels of the Protestant monarchs Elizabeth I and James I, he remained a staunch Catholic throughout a period of dire persecution. Tonight's programme juxtaposes the two sides of Byrd's musical character: the public and private faces of a man regarded by his contemporaries as 'a Father of Musick'. Please check the details at Dartington International Summer School.

21 July to 28 July 2007. Dartington International Summer School
French chanson and Renaissance dance repertory; Dowland's reworking of songs as dances; and the art of embellishing chansons and madrigals. It is hoped that there will be opportunities for viol players to work with voices in some of this repertory. There will also be sessions for less experienced players, as well as a chance for complete beginners to 'try the viol'.

Wednesday 11 July 2007 - York Early Music Festival The National Centre for Early Music, York The Rose Consort of Viols and Stile Antico - Helen Ashby, Kate Ashby, Alison Hill sopranos Emma Ashby, Eleanor Harries, Carris Jones altos Peter Asprey, Andrew Griffiths, Thomas Herford tenors, Oliver Hunt, Matthew O'Donovan, John Herford basses
William Byrd: loyal servant of the Crown and devout Catholic. William Byrd lived a double life. The programme juxtaposes the two sides of his musical character: the brilliant gems composed for the courts and chapels of the Protestant monarchs Elizabeth I and James I, contrasted with the Latin motets he published for secret services held by those of the old faith at a time when Catholics endured dire persecution. It is music whose intensity resonates with us still.

Tuesday 7 November 2006 7.30 St. Mary's Church – Warwick.
ADMIR'D FOR SKILL IN MUSICKES HARMONIE
A celebration of the music of two great Elizabethan composers: Thomas Tallis and Christopher Tye, together with music by their contemporaries and successors in the Chapel Royal with Clare Wilkinson mezzo.

Thursday 26 October 2006 7.30 – Church of St Mary's and All Saints, Church Way, CHESTERFIELD, Derbyshire, S40 1XJ. ..map
ADMIR'D FOR SKILL IN MUSICKES HARMONIE
A celebration of the music of two great Elizabethan composers: Thomas Tallis and Christopher Tye, together with music by their contemporaries and successors in the Chapel Royal with Clare Wilkinson mezzo.

Sunday 17 September 7.30 - a concert part of the Melbourne Festival 2006 at the Parish Church of St Michael with St Mary Melbourne Derbyshire.
A journey through the viol consort's development, using various sets of instruments, starting with copies of instruments from Italy in 1497, through later 16th century Venetian instruments to the Jacobean period and English viols, ending with pieces from the 17th century by Lawes, Locke and Purcell.

Saturday 22 July - Saturday 29 July 2006: Dartington International Summer School:
A course featuring consort music contemporary with Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, also to include the 5-part fancies of Michael East.

Tuesday 25 July 2006 8.15pm: Great Hall, Dartington College:
Emma Kirkby soprano, Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland
The Swan and the Nightingale: Dainty Fine Birds
Music 'apt for Voyce and Viols' from Jacobean England, including pieces from Orlando Gibbons' 'First Set of Madrigals & Mottets' of 1612 and Michael East's 'Third Set of Bookes: Neopolitanes, Fancies and Madrigales' of 1610. These will be performed together with a selection of the Italian madrigals by Luca Marenzio that inspired them, and sublime consort music by Gibbons, Ferrabosco and their contemporaries.

Saturday 8 July 2006 at 19:30: St. Hilary's Church, Wallasey – The Wirral Festival:
'Flights of Fancy' a programme of fantasias, dances and In Nomines spanning the glories of English consort music from Taverner to Purcell.

Sunday 9 July 2006 at 10.00pm: The Gallery, Harewood House
Part of the York Early Music Festival - National Centre for Early Music
A new programme focusing on the dynasties of Italian composers working for the Tudor Courts, with Jacob Heringman (lute & cittern) Please note that booking opens Monday 3rd April 2006.

Saturday 10 June 2006 at 9.30pm: L'Eglise d'Asfeld, Asfeld Festival:
Société Française de Viole. ADMIR'D FOR SKILL IN MUSICKES HARMONIE. A celebration of the 500th anniversary of the births of two great Elizabethan composers: Thomas Tallis and Christopher Tye, together with music by their contemporaries and successors in the Chapel Royal, with Clare Wilkinson (mezzo)

Tuesday 28 March 2006 19:30: Queen's University, Belfast Sonic Arts Research Centre.
Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage: Dramatic Songs from the Elizabethan Theatre, with Clare Wilkinson (mezzo). English consort music, to be heard in the unrivalled stillness of the Sonic Lab, SARC - a venue more often associated with contemporary sounds.

Sunday 13th November 2005 1.00pm, Admiral's House, Greenwich International Festival & Exhibition of Early Music. The Rose Consort of Viols play Richard Jones Renaissance Viols in a concert of early renaissance music by Costanzo Festa ( c 1480-1545)

Friday October 14th 2005 8.00pm, Little Missenden Festival, Little Missenden Church, by candlelight. John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Susanna Pell, Peter Wendland viols Catherine King mezzo soprano. This programme celebrates the 500th anniversary of the births of Thomas Tallis and Christopher Tye. It will include: consort songs by Tallis, Parsons and Byrd, anthems by Tallis, Tye and Tomkins, In Nomines and fantasias by Tallis, Tye, Parsons, Byrd and Tomkins, pavans, galliards and almains by Dowland and Holborne.

Wednesday 5th October 2005 8pm, Brighton Early Music Festival
The Great Hall Brighton College Eastern Rd, Brighton, BN2 0AL
The Rose Consort of Viols with Catherine King. Admired for Skill in Musick's Harmony.

Sunday 24 July 2005 at 5.00pm, Great Hall, Dartington International Summer School
The Rose Consort of Viols with Clare Wilkinson mezzo soprano.
Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage. Songs of passion and melancholy from entertainments given by London's 16th-century choirboy drama companies, interspersed with elegant Elizabethan dances and fantasias, featuring music by Tallis and Tye (both born 500 years ago), Parsons, Byrd, Dowland and Tomkins.

29th May 2005 19:30 Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival St Andrew's Church, Bainton.
The Rose Consort of Viols with Clare Wilkinson mezzo soprano.
Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage. Songs of passion and melancholy from entertainments given by London's 16th-century choirboy drama companies, interspersed with elegant Elizabethan dances and fantasias, featuring music by Tallis and Tye (both born 500 years ago), Parsons, Byrd, Dowland and Tomkins.

Wednesday 25 May 2005 19:30
Christ Church, 2 Eldon Rd., off Victoria Road Kensington, London
Philharmonia Voices, director: Aidan Oliver & the Rose Consort of Viols
Music from the Golden Age of English Church Music:
Tudor anthems, motets and consort music including works by Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes, William Byrd and Thomas Tallis. Admission free

20 December 2004, 7pm Spitalfields Festival
'Now twinkling stars do smile'
The Rose Consort of Viols and Emma Kirkby recreate a music party such as those enjoyed by 'gentlemen and merchants of good account' in the City of London around 1600, including Italian madrigals and French chansons 'Englished', together with pavans, galliards and fantasias from England and continental Europe. Featured music will include the 'delicious air and sweet invention' of Luca Marenzio, Orlando Lassus's classic 'Susanne ung jour' and pieces by the young London composer John Ward. Spitalfields Festival

13 November 2004 7.45pm , The Georgian Concert Society, St Cecilia's Hall Edinburgh
This programme for 5 viols and mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson focuses on the dramatic songs of the Elizabethan Theatre and includes moral tales and tragic laments by Richard Farrant, Robert Parsons and Nathaniel Pattrick, interspersed with instrumental dances and fantasias by their better-known contemporaries such as Thomas Tallis, Christopher Tye and the 'Father of Musick' William Byrd.

Sunday 3rd October 6.30pm Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich
'Now twinkling stars do smile'
Emma Kirkby with Jakob Lindberg and the Rose Consort of Viols
Music as enjoyed by 'gentlemen and merchants of good account' in the City of London around 1600.

24 - 31 July 2004, Dartington International Summer School
1604 saw the publication of one of the most significant collections of English instrumental music, John Dowland's magnificent Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans, with divers other Pavans, Galiards, and Almands. This will form the basis of our course (advanced lute players are welcome to join the viols) and we will also dip into two other 1604 publications 'apt for viols and voices': Michael East's first set of Madrigals, and the first set of madrigals by Thomas Bateson, for which singers with secure sight-reading are welcome to work alongside the viols. In addition there will be opportunities for beginners to 'try the viol' and a range of other music from around 1600: fantasias, dance music, consort songs and verse anthems. During the week (date tbc) the Rose Consort of Viols will perform Dowland's Lachrimae together with other consort pieces from the period.

22 July 2004, part of Cirencester Early Music Festival
'Showers of Harmonie': a selection of pavans, galliards and almains from Dowland's 1604 book, interspersed with fantasias, In Nomines and lute solos by Dowland's contemporaries (including Byrd, Ferrabosco, Ward, Tomkins) and consort songs and songs from Elizabethan drama by Byrd and Parsons with Clare Wilkinson. Cirencester Early Music Festival - 2004

7 July 2004 at 1.00pm part of The York Early Music Festival
Rose Consort of Viols with Catherine King (mezzo-soprano)

Chansons et Fantasies
Sixteenth century French music in a York manuscript

Tudor musicians enjoyed performing a colourful range of national styles ' not just native pieces and Italian madrigals ' and this included French chansons. One manuscript in York Minster Library (M 91 S) is a typical anthology from the second half of the sixteenth century, containing a wealth of chansons by Clemens non Papa, Crequillon, Sandrin and Sermisy, alongside a few Italian madrigals and motets, as well as songs by Tallis and Byrd.

The Rose Consort takes this York anthology as the basis for its programme, exploring the gamut of emotions from the plaintive lament of an exiled monarch, through ardent love songs to the songs of carefree countryfolk. It will also include instrumental fantasies from the collection published by Eustache du Caurroy in Paris in 1610: these also circulated in England, as some were copied by Francis Tregian into his great scorebook.
The York Early Music Festival The National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret's Church, Walmgate, York YO1 9TL

6 May 2004, 19:30, Convent Chapel, Mayfield, Kent. Part of Mayfield Festival.
"Teares of Sorrowe and Gladnesse": a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Dowland's Lachrimae , including fantasias, dances and lute solos by Dowland's contemporaries (including Byrd, Ferrabosco, Ward, Holborne) and concluding with the seven Lachrimae pavans (5 viols with Jacob Heringman, lute)

24 January 2004,19:30, United Free Church, Fore Street, Totnes. For Severall Friends works by Jenkins, Locke, Lawes and Purcell. John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Andrew Kerr. Music for viols flourished during their last years in England ' the period of the Civil War and the Restoration ' before being overtaken by the newfangled violin. The fantasias, divisions and airs of John Jenkins, William Lawes, Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell, with their unique blend of intimacy, intricacy, passion and flamboyance, are rich fruits of this musical autumn.

4 December 2003 at 19:30 Priory Church of St Mary, Monmouth. Eliza, Farewell
John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Susanna Pell, Peter Wendland with Jacob Heringman, lute. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this programme reflects the monarch's love of dancing in galliards by Holborne, together with intricate fantasias of William Byrd, and ends with Dowland's incomparable cycle of 'teares' - the Lachrimae pavans published in 1604.

25 October 2003, 19:30, St Alfege Church, Greenwich,
with Clare Wilkinson & Jacob Heringman; 'The Queen's Farewell': commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth I. Consorts, dance music and songs from Elizabethan drama, including pieces by Thomas Tallis and Alfonso Ferrabosco (both buried in St Alfege Church Greenwich), and their contemporaries Byrd, Parsons, Dowland and Holborne.

9th July 2003 10.00pm, York Early Music Festival Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate
John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland, Ibi Aziz viols. Lullabie:A late-night sequence of Tudor viol consorts English musicians at the Tudor court adopted the viol consort that had arrived from Italy in Henry VIII's reign, writing music of great subtlety and character. This programme includes miniature masterpieces by several of the great Tudor masters ' Tallis, Parsons, Tye, and Byrd ' alongside elegant dances by Holborne and Morley.

30 January 2003, Royal Northern College of Music. Eliza, Farewell
John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Susanna Pell, Peter Wendland with Jacob Heringman, lute. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this programme reflects the monarch's love of dancing in galliards by Holborne, together with intricate fantasias of William Byrd, and ends with Dowland's incomparable cycle of 'teares' - the Lachrimae pavans published in 1604. Royal Northern College of Music

7th November 2002 13.10 The Great hall, University of Leeds
John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks. Musica soavissima & artificiosa: early Renaissance viol music from Italy and its influence across Europe .

29th July 2002 17.00 Dartington International Summer School, the Great Hall
Ho, who comes here' John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland, Andrew Kerr, with Clare Wilkinson - alto. A celebration of the music of Thomas Morley, who died 400 years ago having profoundly redefined the musical taste of Elizabethan England.

Wednesday 5th June 2002, 14.00 and 15.30 The Great Hall, The National Maritime Museum Greenwich. Jubilee Event: Golden Age Restor'd Workshop:- Join the Rose Consort of Viols to explore early Stuart music. Bring a recorder or a stringed instrument to join in!

Sunday 2nd June 2002, between 12.00 and 16.00 :- Queens House, Greenwich. Jubilee Event:
Concerts given by The Rose Consort of Viols and the students of Trinity School of Music present early Stuart Music in celebration of Queen Henrietta Maria's Court.

Thursday 23rd May 2002, 9.15pm. Beverley Festival. The Quire, Beverley Minster
Now is the Month of Maying. Concert by Candlelight Rose Consort of Viols with Rebecca Saunders, soprano. A programme marking the 400th anniversary of the death of Thomas Morley, featuring madrigals, ballets and instrumental pieces by Morley himself, interspersed with readings from his 'A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke' together with pieces by his contemporaries, with a pre-concert talk by John Bryan 'Music Most Artificial and Delightful' in the Beverley Guildhall, 6pm.

10th March 2002, 6.00pm Suffolk Villages Festival, Boxford Church, Suffolk
Heinrich Schutz - Sacred Histories & Dramatic Dialogues. Psalmody, Rose Consort of Viols,
directed by Peter Holman.

19th February 2002, 1.05pm City Music Society, Bishopsgate Hall, 230 Bishopsgate, London, EC2 Those dainty daffadillies -a half-term holiday concert for 8 to 80 year-olds celebrating the 400th anniversary of Thomas Morley. Rose Consort of Viols with Hedvig Eriksson. Tickets available at the door

2nd February 2002, 19:30 Djanogly Recital Hall, Nottingham University Hoe. Who comes here? -a celebration of Thomas Morley with Hedvig Eriksson. With pre-concert talk 'Music most artificial and delightful' by John Bryan at 6.15pm.

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The Rose Consort of Viols: Concerts and Events

Events Archive

Design - Ted Copper. Graphics - Roy Marks. Last modified 22 Dec 2011 Copyright © 1999-2012 Ted Copper. www.roseconsort.co.uk

Design - Ted Copper. Graphics - Roy Marks. Last modified 22 Dec 2011
Copyright © 1999-2012 Ted Copper. www.roseconsort.co.uk