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Rose Consort of Viols

Rose Consort of Viols

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The Rose Consort of Viols is an English ensemble of viol players who perform mainly early consort music, including works by Orlando Gibbons, John Dowland, and Henry Purcell.

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They have performed around the world at many events, have appeared a number of times for the BBC, and have made a number of recordings, several of which have been made in collaboration with Red Byrd, a vocal group from Hyperion Records.

The name was taken from a famous family of viol makers.

Discography

  • Elizabethan Christmas Anthems (with Red Byrd) (Saydisc, 1990)
  • Born is the Babe: Renaissance Music for Christmas (Woodmansterne, 1990)
  • Dowland: Lachrimae (Saydisc, 1992)
  • Ah, Dear Heart (Woodmansterne, 1993)
  • Jenkins: All in a Garden Green (Naxos, 1993)
  • William Byrd: Consort and Keyboard Music, Songs and Anthems (with Red Byrd) (Naxos, 1994)
  • Thomas Tomkins: Consort Music for Viol and Voices; Keyboard Music (Naxos, 1995)
  • William Lawes: Consort Music for Viols, Lutes and Theorboes (Naxos, 1996)
  • Orlando Gibbons: Consort and Keyboard Music, Songs and Anthems (with Red Byrd) (Naxos, 1997)
  • John Dowland: Consort Music and Songs (Naxos, 1997)
  • Henry Purcell: Complete Fantazias and In Nomines (Naxos, 1997)
  • Alfonso Ferrabosco: Consort Music (CPO, 1997)
  • John Ward: Upon a Bank of Roses, Consort Music (CPO, 1998)
  • Elizabethan Consort Music and Dramatic Songs (Naxos, 1999)
  • Four Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal (Deux-Elles, 2008)
  • Loquebantur: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks with the Marian Consort (Delphian, 2010)
  • An Emerald in a Work of Gold: Music from the Dow Partbooks with the Marian Consort (Delphian, 2012)
  • Serenissima: Music from Renaissance Europe on Venetian Viols (Delphian, 2014)
  • Mynstrelles with Straunge Sounds: the earliest consort music for viols (Delphian, 2015)


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