Monday 16 November 2026 7.30pm
L’Isola (vocal ensemble)
Directed by Matthew Gouldstone, L’Isola comprises the finest voices emerging from the University of Cambridge’s pioneering scholarship course on music from the 15th-16th centuries. L’Isola is not a choir but a ‘consort’ of 4-6 soloists reading fluently from original manuscripts. Consort singing, one to a part, is exposed and technically demanding. “The Magician” comprises 16th – early 17th Century Italian and English madrigals. The programme traces the spread of fabulous 16th century Italian music, by Ferrabosco and others, across land and sea to England, to influence English partsong singing of the early 17th Century, including the likes of George Kirbye and Michael Cavendish, and John Wilbye, resident composer employed by the Kitson family at Hengrave Hall, near Bury St Edmunds.
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