Chelys Consort with Fair Oriana – Early Classical Music

Live classical music performed by professional musicians brought to the beautiful venue of Rook Lane Chapel by Frome Concerts Group as part of their Autumn Sunday series. Everyone welcome to buy a single ticket (£25) to this Special full length concert or a subscription to all four concerts in the series at a discount price. (£60)

For the final concert in the series, Frome Concert group are thrilled to bring you two well established ensembles in an exciting collaboration. The beautiful, clear voices of Fair Oriana join forces with Chelys Consort of Viols to bring A Musical Menagerie, Renaissance, Jacobean and Stuart songs and instrumental pieces that feature animals. There are madrigals about shepherdesses and their sheep, sacred pieces that include a serpent and a dragon, and a couple of lovely songs by Dowland in his 400th anniversary year.

Chelys have garnered a reputation for their faithful yet fresh interpretations of the consort repertoire. The members of Chelys are among the UK’s leading exponents of the viol, particularly as a consort instrument, and their consort viols are strung entirely in gut (not strings overwound with metal), which lends them a particularly distinctive sound. Specialist early music sopranos Angela Hicks and Penelope Appleyard formed Fair Oriana in 2019, and, together with their instrumental colleagues, mix historical music with entertaining staging, contemporary influences and, varying genres such as folk, jazz and cross-over. They perform their chamber programmes in concert series around the UK and internationally.

See fromeconcertsgroup.org for tickets and details