Word: fretwork
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Quite impressively, Fretwork maintains a stylistic and artistic continuum throughout the years. One could be fairly easily convinced that this recording was made in one continuos period, rather than three...
...viol consort Fretwork may well be next on the list of Virgin Classics' fortuitous finds...
...Fretwork does not use the oft-abused phrase "authentic performance on period instruments" as crutch or excuse for poor intonation, uncoordinated ensemble, or sheer artistic ineptness. Perhaps no other musical field has had so many artistic shams and imposters...
...true to motto of the Virgin Classics Veritas series, Fretwork manages to integrate early music scholarship with excellent playing and convincing and convincing interpretations...
...Fretwork produces a highly listenable recording, it a bit hypnotic at times. I must also admit a special fondness for some of the extra-musical sonic background of the hair on the bows against the strings. Rest assured, though, that if is not so much disconcerting as endearing...