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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 6d

#NowPlaying 🎻

William Byrd - Consort Songs

Emma Kirkby / @fretwork.bsky.social

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 16d

#NowPlaying 🎻
Division - John Jenkins
@fretwork.bsky.social
www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

Jenkins: Division - The virtuoso consort

Join Fretwork and Silas Wollston (on the organ) as they revel in the uniquely English world of John Jenkins’s consort music for viols, a repertoire distinguished by its rich lyricism, exceptional c...

www.hyperion-records.co.uk

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Fretwork Viol Consort @fretwork.bsky.social · 17d

Many thanks indeed to Continuo Foundation who have awarded us a grant so we can perform our new Albion project, coming up in Oxford in 2026. Watch this space for details!

@continuoconnect.bsky.social

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 24d

Division is a new release (& wonderful) but I'd also recommend the Jenkins: Complete four-part consort music, also from @fretwork.bsky.social
www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

Jenkins: Complete four-part consort music

The effortless counterpoint and rare melodic gift of John Jenkins find peerless voice in the care of masterful viol consort Fretwork.

www.hyperion-records.co.uk

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 24d

#NowPlaying 🎻

John Jenkins (1592-1678)
Division - The virtuoso consort
@fretwork.bsky.social

www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

Jenkins: Division - The virtuoso consort

Join Fretwork and Silas Wollston (on the organ) as they revel in the uniquely English world of John Jenkins’s consort music for viols, a repertoire distinguished by its rich lyricism, exceptional c...

www.hyperion-records.co.uk

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · Sep 10

#NowPlaying 🎻

Muhly: My days; Gibbons: Fantasias & Fugues
Lovely, as you'd expect
@fretwork.bsky.social
www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

Muhly: My days; Gibbons: Fantasias & Fugues

My days is a bold new work from Nico Muhly whose text amalgamates passages from The Burial of the Dead (‘thou hast made my days as it were a span long …’—Psalm 39) with an anonymous autopsy-...

www.hyperion-records.co.uk

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · Sep 9

#NowPlaying 🎻
In chains of gold – The English pre-Restoration verse anthem, Vol. 3
Ah, his glory! – Anthems of praise, prayer and remembrance
Magdalena Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, @fretwork.bsky.social

www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

In chains of gold – The English pre-Restoration verse anthem, Vol. 3

Described by Early Music Review as ‘an impressive master-class in how these texts should be declaimed’, the third volume in the Magdalena Consort’s revelatory series brings us a further elev...

www.hyperion-records.co.uk

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · Aug 16

#NowPlaying 🎻

Lamento - @fretwork.bsky.social with Iestyn Davies & Silas Wollston
www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

Lamento

With important contributions from organist Silas Wollston and countertenor Hugh Cutting, this new album sheds new light on the viol consort and its repertoire as they thrived beyond the shores of E...

www.hyperion-records.co.uk

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Entertainment Factor @entfact.bsky.social · Jul 27

The Fretwork album MY DAYS: ORLANDO GIBBONS AND NICO MUHLY has been released by Signum Classics

entertainment-factor.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-d...

#music #newmusic #classical #classicalmusic #mydays #orlandogibbons #nicomuhly #fretwork @nicomuhly.bsky.social @fretwork.bsky.social

MY DAYS: ORLANDO GIBBONS AND NICO MUHLY - Fretwork Album

The Fretwork album MY DAYS: ORLANDO GIBBONS AND NICO MUHLY has been released by Signum Classics

entertainment-factor.blogspot.com

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · Jul 11

#NowPlaying 🎻

My Days - @fretwork.bsky.social
featuring Orlando Gibbons & Nico Muhly
www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

Muhly: My days; Gibbons: Fantasias & Fugues

My days is a bold new work from Nico Muhly whose text amalgamates passages from The Burial of the Dead (‘thou hast made my days as it were a span long …’—Psalm 39) with an anonymous autopsy-...

www.hyperion-records.co.uk

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · Jul 13

#NowPlaying 🎻

Birds on Fire - 17th century Jewish Music for Viols

@fretwork.bsky.social
www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

Birds on Fire: 17th century Jewish Music for Viols

Birds on Fire. Harmonia Mundi: HMU907478. Buy download online. Jeremy Avis (cantor) Fretwork

www.prestomusic.com

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · Jun 18

🎶 Two stunning new albums—If the Fates Allow (Helen Charlston) & My Days (@fretwork.bsky.social) —supported by Continuo Foundation ⭐

Hear them live at York Early Music on 4 July (York) & Stour Music on 21 June (Kent) in music by Gibbons & @nicomuhly.bsky.social

🎟️ go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on

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Music at Oxford @musicatoxford.bsky.social · Jun 7

Tonight!! www.musicatoxford.com/whats-on/fre...

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Fretwork Viol Consort @fretwork.bsky.social · Jun 6

Come and here the wonderful music of Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly in Oxford tomorrow. @musicatoxford.bsky.social Oxford in SJE at 7.30pm

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎼 Today marks the 400th anniversary of the death of composer, keyboard virtuoso, and one of the last of the greats from the English polyphonic school, Orlando Gibbons.

🎶 Hear
@fretwork.bsky.social at @wigmore-hall.org.uk tonight...

Search for an event near you 👉 go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on

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Groves Artists @grovesartists.bsky.social · Jun 5

Alexander Chance performs music by Orlando Gibbons with @fretwork.bsky.social!

5 June – @wigmore-hall.org.uk
7 June – Music at Oxford

www.fretwork.co.uk/concerts-1/a...

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · Jun 3

#NowPlaying 🎻

Harmonice Musices Odhecaton - an anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501.
It is the first book of polyphonic music ever to be printed using movable type.
Fretwork

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Dr Colin Runeckles @colinruneckles.bsky.social · Jun 1

Hopefully that will be in Foyles when I visit tomorrow...meanwhile this is currently playing.

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Fretwork Viol Consort @fretwork.bsky.social · Jun 1

My Days: Fretwork album review — a fascinating blend of ancient and modern

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · May 30

Might as well play this again (& again)
@fretwork.bsky.social

Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · May 30

#NowPlaying 🎻

Muhly: My days;
Gibbons: Fantasias & Fugues
Fretwork

Recommended

www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

Muhly: My days; Gibbons: Fantasias & Fugues

My days is a bold new work from Nico Muhly whose text amalgamates passages from The Burial of the Dead (‘thou hast made my days as it were a span long …’—Psalm 39) with an anonymous autopsy-...

www.hyperion-records.co.uk

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Fretwork Viol Consort @fretwork.bsky.social · May 29

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

My Days: Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly album review – a luminous tribute

The English composer died 400 years ago; this new collection commemorates the enduring power of his music; Muhly’s My Days, a ritualised memory piece about Gibbons, contrasts perfectly.

www.theguardian.com

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Fretwork Viol Consort @fretwork.bsky.social · May 29

A week to until @fretwork.bsky.social ‘s concert at @wigmore-hall.org.uk , exactly 400 years since the death of one of England’s greatest composers: Orlando Gibbons. We’ll be joined by some fabulous singers and performing lots of wonderful Gibbons; but also ‘My Days’ by @nicomuhly.bsky.social

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · May 27

Last Friday saw the release of My Days, the a brand-new disc by @fretwork.bsky.social‬ featuring music by ‪@nicomuhly.bsky.social‬ and Orlando Gibbons – a project supported by a grant from Continuo Foundation (‪@continuoconnect.bsky.social)‬ ⭐

Read 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/richard-boot...

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · May 25

“It’s so important that the viol does not come across as a museum instrument” 💯

In this week's Sunday Feature, we meet Richard Boothby, founder of @fretwork.bsky.social, a steadfast figure in the early music world for over 40 years.

Full article 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/richard-boot...

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · May 23

📣🚨 DOUBLE NEW ALBUM RELEASE KLAXON 🚨📣

MY DAYS (Orlando Gibbons, @nicomuhly.bsky.social‬, @fretwork.bsky.social‬ on Challenge Records)

IF THE FATES ALLOW (Helen Charlston, Sounds Baroque on BIS Records)

Both funded by Continuo Foundation! More info + how to listen 🔗 linktr.ee/continuo_con...

@continuo_connect on Linktree | Linktree

Discover the world of early music with Continuo Connect. Find early music event listings, features, interviews, playlists, and much more.

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