Long And Away - a consort of viols

Broomes for Old Shooes: Street Cries for Voices and Viols
October 31, 2010 at St. John's Episcopal Church, Jamaica Plain, MA

With guests Michael Barrett, tenor; Emily Fuhrmann, mezzo-soprano; Anney Gillotte, soprano; Daniel Meyers, bass; Ari Nieh, countertenor

A spirited program of street cries, quodlibets, catches, and fantasias from Elizabethan London. Quoting familiar songs in other works was always an effective device, and composers such as Gibbons, Josquin, and Busnois freely engaged in this practice. Including the popular L'Homme arme tune in a sacred piece, placing a sacred melody against the cries of street vendors, or breaking into a dance in the middle of a fantasia are some of the ways composers incorporated old melodies in new compositions. Also included are works by Byrd, Tye, Ravenscroft, Cobbold, and Merton.

Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP), "Swept Away By The Winds of Fashion: 17th-Century Italian Music For Viols", June 8-10 2010
Long & Away with Brenna Wells (soprano) and William Good (theorbo)
In early 17th century Italy, musical traditions were transformed by new forms and new instruments, leaving the older viola da gamba and its polyphonic music overshadowed, but composers still continued to write for the viol consort, mixing the old with the new. Our program will include Monteverdi’s “Lamento d’Arianna”; sonatas in stile moderno by Castello and Marini; a strangely chromatic work by Trabaci; lively court dances that lived on as sonata movements; and Legrenzi’s gorgeous farewell to the consort—his viol sonatas published in 1673. This music is a little more extroverted, a little more piano-forte, and, dare we say, even a little more passionate than commonly expected from a viol consort.

The Viola da Gamba Society's "Gamba Gamut" Fringe Concert at BEMF, June 11, 2009
Long & Away with mezzo-soprano Tracy Cowart
Ye Sacred Muses: Consort Songs & Dances
Consort Songs and fantasias of Byrd, Bennett, Gibbons and Lawes

Sackler Art Museum, March 13, 2009-3:30PM
Trios and duets from the 16th and 17th centuries

Loring-Greenough House, March 12, 2009-8PM
"Fathers of Musick"

The Church of St. John the Evangelist, March 11, 2009-5:30PM
"Fathers of Musick"

The Governor's Academy Performing Arts Center, March 27, 2008-7PM
"Tenors and Fantasies: Music for Viol Consort"

Taylor House B&B, February 10, 2008-4PM
"The State of Gambo: Art of the English Viol"

Beacon Hill Friends House, February 2, 2008-8PM
"The State of Gambo: Art of the English Viol"

First Church Congregational, Cambridge, November 25, 2007-3PM
Long & Away joins Cambridge Concentus for an all-Buxtehude program

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Wednesday Evening Recital Series, October 10, 2007-5:30PM
English consort music by Byrd, Coprario, Locke and Purcell

King’s Chapel as part of their Tuesday Recital series, August 7, 2007-12:15PM
Long & Away with countertenor Steven Serpa
"The Voice of the Viol: Chansons of the Low Countries"

The Viola da Gamba Society's "Gamba Gamut" Fringe Concert at BEMF, June 14-10:30AM
Long & Away with countertenor Steven Serpa
"The Voice of the Viol: Chansons of the Low Countries"

Performance of Membra Jesu Nostri by Deiterich Buxtehude, April 5, 2007-8PM
Edward E. Jones, director

Music by Obrecht, Vecchi, Ward, Gibbons and Ferrabosco, March 21, 2007-12:15PM
Settings of the hit 15th-century tune J'ay pris amours and instrumental fantasias

"Cor Mio" (with Sprezzatura), January 20, 2007-8PM and January 21, 2007-3PM

Premier of Consort by composer Gregory Hall, December 12, 2006-12PM