FoF-Exclusive Concert Archive
Welcome to our archive of concerts. Here you can listen to and watch concerts from the earliest days of Fretwork right through to our latest performances.
FoF-Exclusive videos from our Canada & US tour, 2024
Es is ein’ Ros’ entsprungen - Michael Praetorius
O Nachbar Roland - Samuel Scheidt
An encore from our performance of Lamento at Carnegie Hall
Music by Byrd
Dartington July 22nd, 2023
Full Concert - In Nomine in Madrid
Recorded live on 21st May, 2022
In May 2022, we did our 2nd flight-free tour to the continent, travelling by car and then train from London all the way to Madrid. While the travelling was… complicated, the performance went well and we’re delighted to be able to share with you the full concert.
You can download the programme here.
FoF Christmas Concert, 2021
Merry Christmas to all Friends of Fretwork! As a huge thank you for all your support this year and as a little Christmas present from us, we filmed a Christmas concert exclusively for you. The programme includes Friends’ requests as well as some Fretwork favourites.
We hope you enjoy the concert and here’s to a happy 2022!
Paradise Lost with Simon Callow
FoF Early Access
With readings by Simon Callow, ‘Paradise Lost’ centres on the seven Sinfonias of Leonora Duarte. She is the only female composer to have written viol consort music in the 17th Century and lived in Antwerp in the middle of the 17th century where her family were jewellery merchants. Our programme traces the connections between the Duarte family and scientific, political, intellectual & literary figures in their circle including Milton and Spinoza.
Supported by Continuo Foundation
Full Concert:
Musick’s Monument 3: Cranford, Gibbons, Holborne and more
Recorded at Wigmore Hall on 25th February, 2021
Programme:
Antony Holborne (1545-1602)
The Honeysuckle
Heres Paternus
Muy Linda
The Fairie-round
Matthew Locke (c.1621-1677)
Flat Consort No. 5 in A minor
John Jenkins (1592-1678)
Fantasia No. 7
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Duo for two trebles
William Lawes (1602-1645)
Consort Sett a 5 in C major
Matthew Locke
Flat Consort No. 1 in C minor
Purcell (1659-1695)
Fantasia a 4 No. 7 in C minor Z738
Fantasia a 4 No. 11 in G major Z742
Robert White (c.1538-1574)
In Nomine
Cranford
Fantasia No. 1 in 3 parts
William Lawes
Consort Sett a 5 in C minor
Full Concert:
The Complete Dowland Lachrimae, Performed with Elizabeth Kenny at Wigmore Hall
14th October 2020
Excerpts from a concert in Princeton with the Princeton University Chamber Choir.
April 13th 2018
Another video from our German CD recording sessions
Here’s Samuel Scheidt’s ‘Canzon super “O Nachbar Roland”, taken from the recording sessions from our upcoming German CD. It’s a fantastic piece and great fun, especially at the end when Scheidt introduces an exciting, semi-quaver-ridden variation on the theme…
Exclusive video track from our upcoming CD of German music!
During lockdown, we managed to get together with Iestyn Davies to record a CD of early baroque music by German composers. This stunning disc is going to feature music by Tunder, Schein, Schütz, and Johann Christoph Bach. In the mean time, here’s a video from the recording sessions - ‘Auf dem Gebirge’ sung by Iestyn Davies and Hugh Cutting.
Orleans House, 21st December, 1985
(Fretwork’s debut concert - music by Gibbons, Hume, Lawes)
Durham University, 2nd December 2016
Robert Parsons In Nomine IV in 7 Parts
BBC Prom at Cadogan Hall, 2nd September, 2013
(Music by John Dowland with Ian Bostridge & Elizabeth Kenny)
Lux Musicae, Finland. 10th November 2010
Music by Byrd with Clare Wilkinson
Bergen, 26th May, 2012
with Elizabeth Holmerz