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The Royal Consort

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The Royal Consort, an ensemble of viola da gamba specialists, will appear in "Hamamatsu City Museum of Musical Instruments Collection Series 34. The Royal Consort will perform a viol consort, which flourished during the glory days of British music, using instruments from the museum collection dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The splendid and profound sounds of the great composers of the 16th and 17th centuries, including the great masters Byrd and Purcell, are breathtaking. The Consort's unique repertoire includes "Innomine" and "Fantasia," with its three-dimensional sound created by the combination of high, middle, and low tones, as well as virtuosic divisions and other highlights. ALM RECORDS/Kojima Recording