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The instrumental consort—three viols, two violins, harpsichord and lute/theorbo—offered an invigorating collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean hits by such contemporaneous composers as William Brade, William Lawes, John Dowland and Anthony Holborne.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
There is marvelous invention in the part writing, but even here, the counterpoint between these quite similar-sounding viols requires considerable concentration to grasp.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2020
Two songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams worked surprisingly well accompanied by viols, creating a folk-music-like air in “The Sky Above the Roof,” for example.
From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2019
At the time, violas were customarily low-rent, undemanding orchestral instruments, while viols were high-end, virtuoso solo instruments.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2018
The musicians, with strange orchestras of bells, large horns, harps, viols, zithers and organs, were playing as the people ate.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
