Various - An Emerald In A Work Of Gold: Music from the Dow

Facts For their second Delphian recording, The Marian Consort have leaved through the beautifully calligraphed pages of the part books compiled in Oxford between 1581 and 1588 by the Elizabethan scholar Robert Dow. Sumptuous motets, melancholy consort songs and intricate, harmonically daring viol fantasies are seamlessly interwoven - all brought to life by seven voices and the robust plangency of the Rose Consort of Viols in the chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, where Dow himself was once a Fellow.