Since you ask, it was absolutely astonishingly good. Officially high on JD.

Fretwork with Ian Bostridge & Elizabeth Kenny | Barbican Tenor Ian Bostridge, lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, and viol consort Fretwork delve into the timeless melancholy and beauty of John Dowland’s music, paired with a modern reflection by Adrian Williams.

Going to @fretwork.bsky.social John Dowland fest at Milton Hall later. It's a great month for Dowland stans www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Today's weird discovery. Susan Pell & Richard Campbell, both alumni of @fretwork.bsky.social , appear on Kate Bush - Aerial

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The Hidden Face - @fretwork.bsky.social

Music by John Tavener; John Ward; Picforth; Henry Purcell

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George Benjamin - Three Inventions; Upon Silence; Sudden Tme; Octet

featuring @fretwork.bsky.social

“Proof that self-imposed constraint is no barrier to the creation of music of deeply satisfying beauty.”
Bachtrack's review of our recent concert with Fretwork, an imaginative programme that stretched nearly 500 years of music. 🎻
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The Consort Music - William Byrd
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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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Nyman & Purcell: If & other songs - Iestyn Davies & @fretwork.bsky.social
Heavenly

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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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John Jenkins (1592-1678)
Division - The virtuoso consort

Another delightful album from @fretwork.bsky.social
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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.

British viol player Sarah Small is doing her bit for climate change www.continuoconnect.com/features/sar...

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

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William Byrd - The Second Service & Consort Anthems

Featuring @fretwork.bsky.social & the aforementioned Rogers Covey-Crump

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William Byrd - Consort Songs

Emma Kirkby / @fretwork.bsky.social

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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Division - John Jenkins
@fretwork.bsky.social
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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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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>

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: 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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John Jenkins (1592-1678)
Division - The virtuoso consort
@fretwork.bsky.social

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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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Muhly: My days; Gibbons: Fantasias & Fugues
Lovely, as you'd expect
@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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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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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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Lamento - @fretwork.bsky.social with Iestyn Davies & Silas Wollston
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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

The Fretwork album MY DAYS: ORLANDO GIBBONS AND NICO MUHLY has been released by Signum Classics

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#music #newmusic #classical #classicalmusic #mydays #orlandogibbons #nicomuhly #fretwork @nicomuhly.bsky.social @fretwork.bsky.social

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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My Days - @fretwork.bsky.social
featuring Orlando Gibbons & Nico Muhly
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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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Birds on Fire - 17th century Jewish Music for Viols

@fretwork.bsky.social
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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

🎟️ go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on

Tonight!! www.musicatoxford.com/whats-on/fre...

Come and here the wonderful music of Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly in Oxford tomorrow. @musicatoxford.bsky.social Oxford in SJE at 7.30pm

🎼 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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Alexander Chance performs music by Orlando Gibbons with @fretwork.bsky.social!

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

www.fretwork.co.uk/concerts-1/a...

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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.
Fretwork

Hopefully that will be in Foyles when I visit tomorrow...meanwhile this is currently playing.