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In addition to this, Fretwork have become known as pioneers of contemporary music for viols, having commissioned over 40 new works. The list of composers is like the role call of the most prominent writers of our time: George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Sir John Tavener, Gavin Bryars, Elvis Costello, Nico Muhly, John Woolrich, Orlando Gough, Sally ...
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Fretwork’s History. Richard Boothby recalls Fretwork’s early years. So it was Monteverdi’s Orfeo that started it. Or was it Cornyshe’s Fa la sol? It was Barcelona, certainly; and those three rather youthful-looking men wearing silly hats. It was 1985, May 25th.
Oct 20, 2023 · Last Wednesday, Fretwork, the world-renowned British viol consort, presented an evening of music by the English Renaissance composer William Byrd and his colleagues Tallis, White and Parsons, as the first concert of this season’s MUSICON concert series.
Fretwork offered expressive playing in pieces by the late 16th-century English composers Anthony Holborne, John Bull and Christopher Tye, and made a good case for playing Arvo Pärt’s much-performed Fratres on viols, their plangent sound adding to its hypnotic, uneasy feel.
Fretwork is a British consort of viols, established in 1985. It specialises in English music for viol consort from approximately the time of William Byrd to that of Henry Purcell, but also performs Renaissance and contemporary repertoire.
They have expanded their repertory to include music from over 500 years, from the first printed consort music in Venice in 1501 to music written this year. And, in between, everything that can be played on a consort of viols - Byrd & Schubert, Purcell & Shostakovitch, Gibbons & Britten, Dowland & Grieg.
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Nov 7, 2016 · When they played – as you would expect – Fretwork were superb and we were instantly plunged into the perfect, sublime brilliance of the music and this elegant consort’s majestic handling of the music of Bach.
