The Spinacino Consort

Programmes

Inaugural concert

Please see below for more information on our beautiful concert programmes featuring music from around 1500.

Inaugural concert

At St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, followed by a performance at St Bride's Church, Glasgow

[Photo credit: Ruth Clarke]

Musicians

Inaugural concert

Musicians

Eric Thomas, director & lute

Héloïse Bernard, soprano

Elizabeth Unsworth Wilson, mezzo-soprano

Annemarie Klein, recorders

Claire Horacek, viol

Concert programmes

The Decorum of Voice: Music for a Renaissance Princess

Programme featuring some of the finest music from Renaissance Italy, exploring the influence of Isabella d’Este, 'La Prima Donna del Mondo'.

Composers

Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin des Prez, Francesco Spinacino, Heinrich Isaac & more.

Performers

Eric Thomas, director & lute; Héloïse Bernard, soprano; Elizabeth Unsworth Wilson, mezzo-soprano; Annemarie Klein, recorders; Claire Horáček, viol

O quam magnum mysterium

A meditative programme of works inspired by the Virgin Mary

Composers

Hildegard von Bingen, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Josquin des Prez, Francesco Spinacino, William Byrd & more.

Performers

Eric Thomas, director & lute; Héloïse Bernard, soprano; Annemarie Klein, recorders; Claire Horáček, viol

Intabulatura

"In early 16th-century Venice, Flemish musical culture, native Italian musical tradition and printing collided, manifesting itself in the first instrumental music ever to be published, the Ottaviano Petrucci lute prints." ET

Performers

Eric Thomas, director & lute; Elizabeth Unsworth Wilson, mezzo-soprano; Annemarie Klein, recorders; Claire Horáček, viol