The Muses Restor'd

Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque take the resurgence of the Arts in England post-1660 as the inspiration for The Muses Restor’d, violin-led chamber music from Jacobean to Early Georgian England.

The Muses Restor’d uncovers little known glories of English chamber music and its influences with works by Handel, Lawes, Blow, Locke, Purcell, Schop, Jenkins, Baltzar and Jones. The violin joins a plethora of keyboards, lutes and bass viol reinstating these sonatas, fantasies, suites, grounds and popular tunes to the mainstream of English cultural life of the time.

Rachel is joined by lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, viola da gamba player Mélisande Corriveau and keyboardist James Johnstone.