Music for Voices and Viols, from Dowland to Purcel

Cambridge Renaissance Voices join forces with the viol consort Concordia in the beautiful setting of Sherborne Abbey, to explore a rich repertoire of English music from the 17th century. This was the golden age of consort music, where voices and viols were used interchangeably or together, in both domestic and sacred music-making.

The programme ranges from intimate part songs by Dowland to Jacobean verse anthems by Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tomkins, and the music of Henry Purcell which represents in many ways the culmination of this rich tradition. While his anthems straddle the musical styles of the late Renaissance and a more dramatic idiom signalling the early Baroque, Purcell’s viol Fantasias look back to an earlier age, bringing to an old instrumental form a dazzling complexity and musical beauty.

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