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​CHELYS CONSORT OF VIOLS - Ayres and Graces

Christopher Simpson's Airs for two treble and two bass viols
with Dan Tidhar - chamber organ and harpsichord
Jamie Akers - theorbo and guitar

Listen to sample tracks ​here
Played with passion, precision, and brilliance - Early Music Review
**** - The Guardian
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CHELYS CONSORT OF VIOLS - A Pleasing Melancholy

Dowland's Lachrimae and consort songs
with Emma Kirkby and Jamie Akers

If you're looking for the most beautiful recording of the Lachrimae, this is unquestionably it - Gramophone

Listen here
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​MUSICA SECRETA - Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter

Motets from a 16th century convent.

Musica Secreta & Celestial Sirens
with Claire Williams - organ; Alison Kinder - bass viol


Winner of the 2016 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society
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​ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS - Exiled

Rose Consort of Viols, the Choir of King's College, Aberdeen and David J Smith

Music by Catholic composers Peter Philips (1560/61-1628) and his younger contemporary, Richard Dering (c.1580-1630).
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PASSAMEZZO - Shadows not substantial things

Music in the works of James Shirley (1596 - 1666)

Listen to Ives Symphony: Anon Apes Dance here