Working with renowned early music specialists Rosemary Hodgson (Lute), Kate Macfarlane (Soprano), Christopher Roach (Alto/Tenor) and Timothy Reynolds (Tenor), this event presented part songs (with lute) composed by one of the most significant English composers of the sixteenth century, John Dowland (c.1563–1626).

Rehearsals and performances involved practice-based and historical research on original sixteenth-century print editions of John Dowland’s works, and the poems which his music sets. Research-based decisions were reached relating to text setting and corrections of printing errors.This historically-informed performance also involved decisions relating to voicing and tuning practices.

The programme also involved close work on text interpretation of a range of poems by significant English Renaissance poets (e.g Sir Philip Sidney). Major questions addressed involved the treatment of seasonality, environments and the passage of time in both music and text.