Since you ask, it was absolutely astonishingly good. Officially high on JD.

Going to @fretwork.bsky.social John Dowland fest at Milton Hall later. It's a great month for Dowland stans www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Today's weird discovery. Susan Pell & Richard Campbell, both alumni of @fretwork.bsky.social , appear on Kate Bush - Aerial

#NowPlaying The Hidden Face - @fretwork.bsky.social Music by John Tavener; John Ward; Picforth; Henry Purcell

#NowPlaying George Benjamin - Three Inventions; Upon Silence; Sudden Tme; Octet featuring @fretwork.bsky.social

“Proof that self-imposed constraint is no barrier to the creation of music of deeply satisfying beauty.” Bachtrack's review of our recent concert with Fretwork, an imaginative programme that stretched nearly 500 years of music. 🎻 @bachtrack.com @fretwork.bsky.social bachtrack.com/review-fretw...

#NowPlaying 🎻 The Consort Music - William Byrd @fretwork.bsky.social

#NowPlaying 🎻 Nyman & Purcell: If & other songs - Iestyn Davies & @fretwork.bsky.social Heavenly www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

#NowPlaying 🎻 John Jenkins (1592-1678) Division - The virtuoso consort Another delightful album from @fretwork.bsky.social www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

British viol player Sarah Small is doing her bit for climate change www.continuoconnect.com/features/sar...

And while we're at it Richard Boothby & @fretwork.bsky.social seem to be the most prominent viol Consort in my collection. Probably for good reason

#NowPlaying 🎻 William Byrd - The Second Service & Consort Anthems Featuring @fretwork.bsky.social & the aforementioned Rogers Covey-Crump

#NowPlaying 🎻 William Byrd - Consort Songs Emma Kirkby / @fretwork.bsky.social

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

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

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_...

#NowPlaying 🎻 John Jenkins (1592-1678) Division - The virtuoso consort @fretwork.bsky.social www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

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

#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_...

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

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

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

#NowPlaying 🎻 Birds on Fire - 17th century Jewish Music for Viols @fretwork.bsky.social www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

🎶 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

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

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

🎼 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

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...

#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

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

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

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

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

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...

“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...

📣🚨 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...

This week's Sunday Feature penned by Bill Hunt dives into the third and final volume of IN CHAINS OF GOLD, a collection of English pre-Restoration verse anthems performed by @fretwork.bsky.social and friends 💿 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/in-c...

Beautiful concert from SANSARA & @fretwork.bsky.social this evening.

#NowPlaying 🎻 Petrucci - Harmonice Musices Odhecaton Fretwork www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

#NowPlaying The Art of Fugue, BWV1080 - Bach Fretwork

#NowPlaying 🎻 Birds of Fire; 17th century Jewish Music for Viols - Fretwork www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

I'm holding @fretwork.bsky.social responsible for any trouble I get into

Some belated photos of the wonderful Musicon concert by @fretwork.bsky.social and Alexander Chance last week. The 400th anniversary of Orlando Gibbon's death was marked by performances of his music alongside Nico Muhly's touching and surprising depiction of the events around his death.

"My Days: Orlando Gibbons & Nico Muhly" by @fretwork.bsky.social et al. will be released by Signum Classics on May 23rd, 2025 #Gibbons400

@fretwork.bsky.social Thanks for a lovely concert at the @kebleoxford.bsky.social early music festival.

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"In chains of gold – The English pre-Restoration verse anthem, Vol. 3 'Ah, his glory! '– Anthems of praise, prayer and remembrance" by Magdalena Consort, @fretwork.bsky.social, and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, will be released by Signum Classics on February 28th, 2025.

I love starting the day with @fretwork.bsky.social s gorgeous cd of the music of John Milton (1562-1647) & imagining his son, John, hearing it at home as a child 🤓

William Lawes (1602 – 1645) Consort Setts For Ye Violls Fretwork (viols) & Paul Nicholson (organ) @fretwork.bsky.social: 8 Consort set a6 in F major: 1 Fantazy (The Sunrise☀️) www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Aj...