Jul
7
7:30 PM19:30

'The Count & The Duke' - A Renaissance Big Band

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!

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Jun
23
7:30 PM19:30

'The Count & The Duke' - A Renaissance Big Band

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.

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Mar
18
7:30 PM19:30

'Reining in the Donkey'

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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.

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FOR THE HONOUR OF THE CITTIE
Jun
17
7:30 PM19:30

FOR THE HONOUR OF THE CITTIE

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

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SING JOYFULLY
Jun
1
7:00 PM19:00

SING JOYFULLY

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.

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Heigh Ho Holiday: Christmas Revels in 17th-century London
Dec
13
8:00 PM20:00

Heigh Ho Holiday: Christmas Revels in 17th-century London

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.

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