| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 7-Jun-2013 Christ Church, Spitalfields | Feasting on medieval music with the Orlando Consort at Spitalfields Music Summer Festival 2013 |
 Amidst all the hustle and bustle, the humming and buzzing of post-work Friday-night drinkers lining the sun-kissed streets of Spitalfields, who’d have thought that in the church at the very heart of that lively London area would be a man, standing alone, singing music written 800 years ago? Music from another human-inhabited world, so alien to our modern-day, Commercial Street lives, and yet still being performed: words praising the life of St Francis of Assisi sung to a melody composed only a few years after his death.
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| 25-Jan-2012 St Oswald's Church | The Orlando Consort bring the early Renaissance to life |
 The fifteenth-century French composer Guillaume Dufay straddles the musical boundary between the Medieval and the Renaissance. Working in France and Italy, writing secular and sacred music, sometimes to his own verses, he seems to have had a finger in every musical pie, and this evening’s concert by the Orlando Consort illustrated his pivotal role in the evolution of later Renaissance styles.
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| 19-Nov-2011 Southwark Cathedral | A lot of knight music: New Renaissance Voices at Southwark Cathedral |
 Trendy titles and taglines are more or less a given at classical concerts nowadays, but that doesn’t prevent me feeling a twinge of resentment each time pieces are pigeon-holed into a concert ‘narrative’. Thus it was with a certain trepidation that I headed to Southwark Cathedral for ‘The Knight and the Lady’, a concert of sacred vocal music performed by the New Renaissance Voices.
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