Fretwork bring the expected and the startlingly unexpected to Sheffield in a revealing evening of music for viol consort.

For more than 30 years, English early-music ensemble Fretwork has dedicated itself to the repertoire of a single stringed instrument. The viol—also known as the viola da gamba—reached the height of ...

Kanneh-Mason’s second album is a delight; Davies and Fretwork excel in early baroque German music; and the pick of Proms week one With its brilliant fugue finale, Samuel Barber’s heavyweight yet ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Internationally-celebrated countertenor Iestyn Davies is returning to Vancouver this fall, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This year marks the 400th anniversary of Orlando Gibbons’s death. Straddling the Renaissance and the Baroque, ...

CAMBRIDGE — The Boston Early Music Festival opened its 27th concert season on Friday at First Church in Cambridge with the British viol consort Fretwork, Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc, and, as always ...

However, This Year's Midnight, performed in near-darkness, and billed as a meditation of songs, poetry and instrumental music for the winter solstice, is more ambitious and ranges more widely across ...

Carole Malakoff had never heard of Moorish fretworks when she and her husband, Bob, bought an 1871 Italianate-style house in Pittsburgh. But ever since they found an 11-foot section of the delicate ...