An Elizabethan Christmas review – a feeling of consolation you can hunker down with

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Festive viol pieces and consort songs from Tudor and Stuart winter celebrations offer moments for both contemplation and rejoicing

’s new recording is the music we need. This may be a festive compilation, but the Tudor Christmases these pieces were written for would have been preceded by weeks of Advent fasting, rather like Easter following Lent, and there’s as much contemplation here as there is rejoicing. These viol pieces and consort songs were private music, and the atmosphere is inward-looking.

 

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