Abendmusik ensemble and guests perform the music of John Coprario and Orlando Gibbons live from the Church of the Transfiguration. Performers Malgorzata Ziemnicka, violin; Lawrence Lipnik, viola da gamba; Patricia Ann Neely, viola da gamba; Rosamund Morley, viola da gamba; Vita Wallace, violin About the Program Coprario's Music, a cohort of musicians and composers, was the resident music ensemble in the household of the Prince of Wales, Charles I (c. 1621). The members included, John Coprario, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Lupo, Alfonso Ferrabosco II, among others. They distinguished themselves as prominent composers of consort music and were in the forefront of a movement to mold the fantasia into a genre that included all sizes of viols, a mixture of violins and viols, and at times a doubling by organ. They met on a regular basis to play each other's compositions in a recreational setting and were sometimes joined by Charles I on the viol.
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