‘Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage’: Elizabethan Dramatic Songs, Dances & Fantasias

Abstract

"The Rose Consort combines an entrancing ear for line and texture with great beauty of sound and suppleness of phrase, transporting us at once back to an era which gave a premium to grace, refinement, and civilised discourse", said CD Review. The programme we have chosen for the consort to perform is a series of dramatic songs from Elizabethan plays interspersed with dances and fantasias from Byrd, Tomkins and their contemporaries. For this they are joined by Katherine King, Mezzo-Soprano.