For more than 30 years, English early-music ensemble Fretwork has dedicated itself to the repertoire of a single stringed instrument. The viol—also known as the viola da gamba—reached the height of ...

Kanneh-Mason’s second album is a delight; Davies and Fretwork excel in early baroque German music; and the pick of Proms week one With its brilliant fugue finale, Samuel Barber’s heavyweight yet ...

Joined by the light-voiced, highly intelligent mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson (pictured below left, by Stefan Schweiger), a regular collaborator, their performances of Dowland's “In Darkness Let Me ...

It’s a gorgeous work of homage – a “ritualised memory piece” – to a composer Muhly (pictured below) clearly reveres, finding correlations and correspondences between Gibbons’ writing and Muhly’s own ...

The new Music at Oxford season opened in typically adventurous fashion, with viol consort Fretwork presenting their unique version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Originally written for harpsichord, ...

The King’s Singers and Fretwork celebrate Renaissance composers in Tom and Will — review on facebook (opens in a new window) The King’s Singers and Fretwork celebrate Renaissance composers in Tom and ...

After being charged $240 to check in an ‘oversized’ instrument, this early music group was furious to find one of their period instruments had arrived in pieces. A precious string instrument has been ...