Venue: St Olave’s ChurchYork
York Early Music Festival:
Musica Transalpina of 1588 was a radical book of madrigals and chansons that brought music from continental Europe to the attention of Elizabethan audiences and soon became a new repertory for viol consort as well. Madrigals by Marenzio, Palestrina and Ferrabosco alongside chansons by Lassus and songs and instrumental pieces by Byrd, with Emma Kirkby soprano and Rory McLeery countertenor