Party like it’s 1525

Hanse Pfeifferey is a thrilling prize-winning Renaissance wind ensemble from Germany. With I Fagiolini they take us on an early-16th-century journey featuring polyphony from French, Flemish, Italian, German and even English-speaking regions. Hear the soft-sung vocal originals from precious manuscripts and the first printed songbooks in history, and the ‘town square’ or dance version for cornett, shawm, sackbut and the rarely heard slide trumpet.