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Four Gentleman of the Chapel Royal

This recording represents a significant stage in my research into the relationship between singers and players, the training of choristers (including those at the Chapel Royal) as instrumentalists and the implications this may have for ‘instrumental’ performance of both texted and untexted pieces dating from the Tudor and early Stuart periods. This research is under further scrutiny as part of the five-year AHRC-funded (£268,000) project ‘Making the Tudor Viol’ that I am currently leading, documented at www.hud.ac.uk/viol. My research into performance practice appropriate to the sixteenth-century—and specifically Elizabethan—repertory for voice(s) and viols has been further demonstrated (both as player and adviser) in further CD recordings, including the award-winning CD (Gramophone Early Music Award 2011 and Diapason d’Or de l’Année) Alessandro Striggio: Missa Ecco si beato giorno in 40 parts (I Fagiolini/Rose Consort of Viols/Fretwork) Decca 478 2734 (March 2011) and An Emerald in a Work of Gold: Music from the Dow Partbooks (Rose Consort of Viols/Marian Consort) Delphian DCD34115, vocal and instrumental music from the partbooks (Oxford, Christ Church, Mus. 984-8) copied by the Elizabethan Robert Dow 1581–1588 (December 2012). The research underpinning these CDs was also further disseminated in a BBC Radio 3 The Early Music Show (10 July 2011) live broadcast and in invited lectures at Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival (2008); University of Aberdeen (2009); Longy School of Music, Boston, USA (2010); Brandeis University, Boston, USA (2010) and many public concert performances, including Dartington International Summer School (2009); Lindsay Chapel, Cambridge, Mass., USA, (2010) National Centre for Early Music, York (2010); York Early Music Festival (2011); Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (2011); Basilica di San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy (2011); Cadogan Hall, London, BBC Proms (2012); Firth Hall, University of Sheffield (2013).