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Anthony Holborne's five part setting of The Night Watch, performed on renaissance recorder and Elizabethan viols. The Voice of the Viol Elisabeth Reed, director Musicians: (left to right) Hanneke van Proosdij, renaissance recorder Wendy Gillespie, Elisabeth Reed, Farley Pearce & William Skeen, Elizabethan viols. *about Elizabethan viols* Voices of Music is developing programs for two consorts of viols, one from the Elizabethan period (in this video) and also an early renaissance consort from around the year 1500 to perform works published by Petrucci, the first music publisher, and his contemporaries. The late renaissance Elizabethan viols are primarily based on the work of John Rose, who was famous by the 1550s for his “vyalls” and other instruments. Although these instruments were from the middle of the century, only the later instruments survive, and it is not known if Rose’s style changed over the years, so these instruments either reflect the practice as early as the 15
