MSB at the Little Missenden Festival, 3 October 2025, photograph by Robert Piwko: see more photos by Robert below.

                                'utterly gripping in its mixture of eroticism and violence'  - The Guardian
                                                            'the very embodiment of sprezzatura' - Early Music Today
                                            'technically superb, but in a highly expressive way' - Robert Hugill

NEWS: MSB takes on Purcell!

We are delighted to announce that Continuo Foundation, in association with The Purcell Society, have awarded us a generous grant towards our next big project: a new take on Dido and Aeneas, in which Purcell's wonderful music is enhanced by readings, broadside ballads, and other songs and poetry, to give us the crucial backstory and historical context. We'll be performing it at the Roman River Festival in Colchester on 4 October 2026.

A dedicated page on our website is coming soon - watch this space!

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

We are looking forward to renewing our collaboration with the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble in three concerts this season:

28 March 2026: Monteverdi Vespers with the Petros Singers

​7 May 2026: Monteverdi Vespers with Wells Cathedral Chamber Choir

16 May 2026: Venetian Vespers with Londinium

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MSB at the Little Missenden Festival, October 2025. Photographs by Robert Piwko.

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Order The Madrigal Reimagined

The Madrigal Reimagined
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'A wonderfully satisfying recital'
'expressive dazzle'
'sheer stylistic brilliance'
​- Robert Hugill

Now available on Resonus Classics
Order your copy directly by email here: £12 plus P&P

This recording  was made possible by generous grants from Continuo Foundation and Angel Early Music, as well as a number of private donations. We are extremely grateful to these organisations and individuals for their financial support 

The programme features guest artists Hannah Ely (soprano) and Toby Carr (lute), and celebrates the inspired responses of composers and performers to the Italian madrigal. One of our favourite textures from this is the intertwining of voice and strings, heard here in an excerpt from Palestrina's Vestiva i colli. ​

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