After participating in St Mary the Virgin Lewisham’s All Souls’ Mass, Tramontana continues with a programme of sacred and secular music. In this season when the veil between worlds thins, Tramontana glimpses both sides of it through 13th- to 17th-century music. Cheerful and sombre dances form the skeleton of the programme, including a rare Danse Macabre. Fleshing these pieces out are lighthearted airs, dark ballads, and polyphonic madrigals and motets about the stuff of life, strange intermediary beings, and some very serious reflections on death and what might follow.

Expect voices, recorders of many sizes, viols, a touch of hurdy-gurdy, and that curious creature the crumhorn! Enjoy yourself while you can, since Death may arrive at any time…

This is a free concert with cheese & wine following All Souls' mass at 18:00, with donations welcomed. Click the Book Tickets link to find out more on Ensemble Tramontana's website.

Ensemble Tramontana:
Timea Gazdag soprano
Shirley Vaughan soprano, recorder, crumhorn
Paul Gregory, Matthew Male recorders, crumhorns
Amanda Seaborn recorder, crumhorn, viol
Eszter Komáromi, Esha Neogy viols
Talia Hunter hurdy-gurdy