"Fretwork is the finest viol consort on the planet" - Stephen Petitt, The London Evening Standard.

In 2006, Fretwork celebrated 20 years of performing music old and new, and look forward to a challenging and exciting future as the world's leading consort of viols.

In these last two decades, they have explored their core repertory of great English consort music, from Taverner to Purcell, and made classic recordings against which others are judged. Their series of discs for Virgin Classics included CDs devoted to William Lawes, Henry Purcell, William Byrd, Matthew Locke, John Dowland and Orlando Gibbons; while their more recent work for Harmonia Mundi USA has produced two discs of J.S.Bach - Art of Fugue and Alio Modo - which have been exuberantly praised; and discs of the earliest instrumental music (Petrucci); Sir John Tavener's The Hidden Face; Thomas Tomkins; Alexander Agricola & Fabrice Fitch; Ludwig Senfl with Charles Daniels and two collaborations with the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Their disc of concert songs by William Byrd with Emma Kirkby has received particular praise.

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