The Pastime Consort, like our instruments, has a wide repertoire stretching from the Middle Ages to modern times. However, the greater part of our repertoire lies in Renaissance and Baroque music.
Courtly music, church music, dance music and song are the sources of an enormous quantity of shorter and longer works suitable for many occasions.
We play music in 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 parts. We play songs, madrigals, chorales, and choruses; pavanes and heys, gigs and gigues, sarabandes, sonatas and fantasies.
Our aim, always, is to choose carefully a set of pieces which suit the theme and flavour of the event.
From our Renaissance repertoire
- Ayres, Allemands and Fantasies by John Adson, Edward Blankes and John Wilby
- Pavanes, Galliards, Canzonas by William Brade
- “The Leaves be Green” by William Byrd as well as Fantazias, Pavanes, Galliards, songs and sacred music by Byrd
- Dance music for Jacobean Masques by J. Coperario
- Chansons by Thomas Crequillon
- selections from the Ars Sacra et Comica of Josquin
- selections from the Books of Songs or Ayres by John Dowland as well as from his Lachrimae, Pavanes, Galliards and Allmands
- selections from Aerie Fancies by Michael East
- Fantazias, Pavanes, Galliards, songs and sacred music by Orlando Gibbons
- selections from Dances Grave and Light and from the sets of Quintets by Anthony Holborne
- Dances and Songs from Shakespeare’s theatre by Robert Johnson
- selections from The Plaine & Easie Introduction to Musick (1598) by Thomas Morley
- and from The Complete Consort Music by Christopher Tye
From our Baroque repertoire
- Sonatas and Sonatinas, Pastorales and Trios by Avison, Corelli, Hook, Mozart, Pepusch, Scarlatti, Teleman
- Fugues by J.S. Bach
- “Ricercar pro tempore Adventus” by J.K.F. Fischer
- Fantasias, Aires and Pavanes by William Lawes
- Chaconnes, Fantasias and In Nomines by Henry Purcell
- Suites from Banchetto Musicale by J.H. Schein
Other repertoire
Medieval
- Agincourt Carol – attrib. Henry V
- Ave Regina Coelorum – Guillaume Dufay
- Brumel
- Heinrich Isaac
- GuillaumeMachaut
Modern
- Boxwood Bounce, Andreson
- Alpine Suite by Benjamin Britten
- Take 5 after Dave Brubeck
- The Gentle Maiden by David Donaldson
- Embraceable You by George Gershwin
- Trio for Recorders from the Plöner Musiktag (1932) by Paul Hindemith
- Shoreline Suite by Leonie Jenkins
- Songs from Shakespeare by Kenneth Meek
- Intrada and Canzona by Barbara Pentland
- Motet: Beati Quorum Via by Charles Villiers Stanford
- Folksongs from Somerset by Ralph Vaughn Williams
- Gabriel Down by Peter Warlock
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