Fretwork plays Lachrimae
Fretwork plays Lachrimae at The Octagon Chapel, Norwich
About the show
In 2021, Fretwork celebrated 35 years of performing music old and new, and looks forward to a challenging and exciting future as the world’s leading consort of viols. In these last three and a half decades, they have explored the core repertory of great English consort music, from Taverner to Purcell, and made classic recordings against which others are judged.
In this concert they will perform Dowland Lachrimae - the composers most famous cycle for viol ensemble and lute. Players for this concert will be Emilia Benjamin, Emily Ashton, Joanna Levine, Sam Stadlen and Richard Boothby with Liz Kenny - Lute
Featuring - Fretwork
Few other ensembles can match the range of Fretwork’s repertory, spanning as it does the first printed music of 1501 in Venice, to music commissioned by the group this year. Their recordings of arrangements of J. S. Bach have won particular praise, but they have recently issued a disc containing music by Grieg, Debussy, Shostakovitch, Warlock & Britten.
This extraordinary breadth of music has taken them all over the world in the 35 years since their debut, and their recordings of the classic English viol repertory - Purcell, Gibbons, Lawes & Byrd - have become the benchmark by which others are judged. Their 2009 recording of the Purcell Fantazias won the Gramophone Award for Baroque Chamber Music.