Concert of Renaissance music by the Rose Consort of Viols, performing John Dowland's Teares of Sorrowe and Gladnesse within the York Early Music Festival.
Rose Consort of Viols are playing at the Merchant Adventurers Hall on Monday 6 July, as part of the York Early Music Festival. It's a Renaissance concert of viols and lute, presented by the National Centre for Early Music, and it's being held in the hall's Undercroft on Fossgate.
The programme is Dowland's Teares of Sorrowe and Gladnesse, a title that points straight to John Dowland, the English composer and lutenist who spent the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries making a name for himself across Europe. The consort's name itself is a nod to that era, and the music they'll be playing—viols and lute—is exactly what you'd have heard in a house like this back then. The whole thing sits within the York Early Music Festival, so it's one of many concerts the city puts on during the summer for early music.
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It's a relatively short one, running from 18:00 to around 19:00, so you're in and out in an hour. Tickets were ÂŁ30, or ÂŁ28 if you booked in advance, with unreserved seating, and ÂŁ10 for under-35s. It's now marked as sold out, so you'll need to keep an eye on the NCEM site if any seats open up.
