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The final instalment of a project to record all the magnificat settings by Orlande de Lassus, we join vocal ensemble Magnificat to record instrumental settings of chansons and then combine with the voices in their magnificat settings. Gorgeous, rich textures and sonorities. Out on Linn Records this month.
For the past 15 years we are proud to have taken part in the annual ancient Swan Feast celebrations of the Vintners’ Company, one of the principal livery companies in the City of London. This event is a direct link to the employment given to civic musicians, the Waits, in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Our annual course of Christmas music for renaissance big band at the wonderful Halsway Manor in Somerset, the National Centre for Folk Arts.
We return to the MSSF for a 4th year, and are looking forward to making music with as many as possible! Details and links to course registration coming soon…
Our third year at the MSSF. The course has three tutors, and is for players of early brass, strings and woodwind. Our concert ‘For the Honour of the Cittie’ takes place on August 6th.
Our new recording project with vocal Ensemble Magnificat. This final volume focuses on the chansons of Lassus and their magnificat settings. Rich sonorities and textures abound! To be released in November 2026.
A project interrupted by the Covid years! This is Renaissance dance music on an epic scale - twenty instrumentalists on shawms, sackbuts, cornetts, dulcians, crumhorns, rackett, regals, violin band, lutes, and percussion. Partly a homage to the great recordings of David Munrow in the 1970s, this concert is filled with the glorious rhythmic and sonic splendour of sixteenth and seventeenth century music for dance band. We cant’t wait to perform this fantastic repertoire for a second time!
A recording project of music in 17th century Rome. More to follow soon…
A project interrupted by the Covid years! This is Renaissance dance music on an epic scale - twenty instrumentalists on shawms, sackbuts, cornetts, dulcians, crumhorns, rackett, regals, violin band, lutes, and percussion. Partly a homage to the great recordings of David Munrow in the 1970s, this concert is filled with the glorious rhythmic and sonic splendour of sixteenth and seventeenth century music for dance band. We cant’t wait to perform this joyful repertoire.
A concert of seventeenth century Roman Music with Robert Hollingworth and York University Choir. An exciting start to this project, with a recording of similar repertoire to follow in Summer 2023. Including the Benevoli Missa Si Deus Pro Nobis.
Our one seasonal programme - great to be able to perform it after so long. The 6 wind players of TCM are joined by the soprano Angela Hicks, and lutenist Lynda Sayce. Winter ballads, carols, dances and music from masques, often performed during the Christmas season.
We are delighted to be opening the Dartington Summer School 2022 with this concert bursting with the exuberance and sonority of Music performed in Bavarian courts and cities.
The first outing of our new project celebrating the glories of English music in the Golden Age. With dancers, wind consort, mixed consort and the celestial sounds of the ensemble Fieri.
For the Honour of the Cittie - Music for Ceremony, Festival & Feast in London 1550-1650
The Waits were the principal band heard in the great halls, churches, ceremonies, revels, masques, theatres and grand pageants of London from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century. This concert focuses on music from the golden age of the London Waits, from roughly 1550-1650, when the highly skilled and esteemed musicians performed as the elite aural emblem of the City of London. The City Musick perform on shawms, sackbuts, cornetts, dulcians, recorders, trumpets and drums.
William Lyons, Nicholas Perry, Sam Goble, Gawain Glenton,Tom Lees, George Bartle, Sarah Humphrys
Step back in time to the sixteenth century and hear the stunning renaissance choral and instrumental music of Orlando Lassus, William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Richard Dering and Claudio Monteverdi.
Performing will be the celebrated early music sagbutts & cornetts ensemble, City Musick led by William Lyons together with St Davids Cathedral Choir conducted by Oliver Waterer.
This concert represents festive music and song as played by the civic band of waits whose traditional duties included playing for the singing of carols around the streets of the city. The London waits were “excellent and expert musitians” who performed for masque, theatre, civic ceremony and in church, also giving regular public concerts.
An appearance by The City Musick on the popular classical music show. We will be playing live and talking about our new CD and the Christmas concert at St John’s Smith Square in London on the 13th December.
Stories in Transit, a Florentine marriage, Early music, Improvisation and Poetry
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